THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Sleep Token's *Take Me Back To Eden* just went platinum in the US — the first time Spinefarm Records has ever had a platinum album in its entire history *†. The 2023 release racked up over two billion global streams and turned an anonymous masked band into arena headliners who sold out Wembley in under ten minutes *††. No metal album has hit platinum since Metallica's *Hardwired To Self-Destruct* back in 2017 ‡.
THE DETAILS
- *Take Me Back To Eden* released May 19, 2023 via Spinefarm Records *‡
- RIAA platinum certification represents one million equivalent units sold ‡
- Lead single "The Summoning" earned its own platinum certification in April 2026 ††
- Album peaked at number three in the UK and number 16 on the Billboard 200 ††
- Monthly Spotify listeners exploded from under 300,000 to over 1.5 million within a month of release ࠠ
- Most streamed metal album on Spotify in 2023, beating Metallica's *72 Seasons* ࠠ
- Sleep Token has since moved to RCA Records for 2025's *Even In Arcadia*, which debuted at number one and went gold *††
WHY IT MATTERS
SKIP IT — this is a certification announcement, not new music. The real story is that a band performing anonymously in masks just did what almost no one in metal can do anymore: move a million units without showing their faces or doing traditional press †. Sleep Token already released *Even In Arcadia* in 2025, which also went gold and hit number one, so *Take Me Back To Eden* is old news getting its plaque three years late *††.