The United States and United Kingdom’s Top Albums charts could not be more opposite. While Americans continue to fall in love with a new generation of hip-hop, country and pop acts, Brits prefer both classic and modern rock bands, and the proof is in the No. 1’s.
In the U.S., the latest rock album to hit No. 1 was AC/DC’s electric comeback,
Power Up. It remained at the top of the Billboard 200 for just one week, quickly being knocked off by BTS’
Be. The previous month, Machine Gun Kelly occupied the No. 1 spot for one week for his pop-punk debut,
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If you had Bring Me The Horizon’s 8-year-old track re-entering the charts because kids on TikTok were setting their mirrors ablaze on your 2021 bingo, congrats! “Can You Feel My Heart,” taken from the Sheffield band’s 2013 fourth studio album
Sempiternal, has spontaneously climbed back onto the charts thanks to the help of TikTok youngsters and a lot of hairspray.
But, of course, you can’t have fun on the internet without gatekeepers swooping in to swiftly drop-kick your enjoyment. Days after the trend gained momentum, TikTok descended into the war on newer Bring Me The Horizon fans, many of these elitists arguing that if you didn’t like the band when they released their first album you weren’t a “real fan” even though most of the kids taking part in this trend weren’t born when