Sleep Token Scores First Hot Hard Rock Songs No. 1 Debut With ‘Caramel’

The track replaces the band’s own “Emergence” at the summit.

Apr 16, 2025 - 23:48

Sleep Token Scores First Hot Hard Rock Songs No. 1 Debut With ‘Caramel’

Sleep Token earns its first No. 1 debut on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, bowing atop the April 19-dated survey with “Caramel.”

Released April 4, the track drew 11.2 million official U.S. streams, 30,000 in radio airplay audience and sold 3,000 downloads in the week ending April 10, according to Luminate.

Sleep Token tallies its second total No. 1 on the chart, following “Emergence,” which debuted at No. 2 on the March 22 ranking and led for three weeks up to the debut of “Caramel.” “Emergence” ranks at No. 2 on the latest list via 5.2 million streams, 2.2 million in radio reach and 1,000 sold.

Sleep Token becomes the third act to replace itself at No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs since the chart began in June 2020. Bring Me the Horizon first achieved the feat, when “Teardrops” gave way to “Parasite Eve” (Nov. 14, 2020), followed by Linkin Park (“The Emptiness Machine” and “Heavy Is the Crown,” Feb. 15). The latter band supplanted itself at No. 1 again when “The Emptiness Machine” returned to the top (Feb. 22).

Concurrently, “Caramel” debuts at No. 1 on the Rock Streaming Songs, Hard Rock Streaming Songs and Hard Rock Digital Song Sales charts. “Emergence” also led each list.

“Caramel” also starts at No. 34 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 – Sleep Token’s highest rank yet, surpassing the No. 57 best for “Emergence.” It’s the highest-charting hard rock song on the ranking in 2025 and the best since “The Emptiness Machine” debuted and peaked at No. 21 last September.

“Caramel” is the second song released from Even in Arcadia, Sleep Token’s fourth studio album and first with RCA Records, due May 9. Its predecessor, Take Me Back to Eden, debuted at its No. 2 peak on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart in June 2023 and has earned 776,000 equivalent album units to date.