Introducing The Merchbar Hot Music Merch Chart

As income from music sales slides, the importance of revenue from touring and merchandise increases. So today, we're debuting The Merchbar Hot Merch Chart on Hypebot. Merchbar pulls together music merchandise – 100,000+ items and growing – from a wide variety of sources for sale on a unified site.

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As the summer touring season gets underway the merch landscape shifts – the old standbys like Bob Marley and the Beatles give way to the bands and artists of the moment. Festivals drive awareness of new acts and headliners see bumps well beyond the border of the venues.

May's hottest merch was led by the seminal Dave Matthews Band and their most popular item was their brand new Dave Matthews Hoodie. Lightly tagged with their signature Firedancer icon, the rest of the hoodie highlights the band's roots with a large "Established 1991 – Charlottesville" printed across the back.

Not as widely known bands broke though this month too with Hardwell merch, Milky Chance merch and the Growlers merch all appearing in the top 3 of the weekly Hot Merch chart.

Steep discounts drove huge volume for Lil Wayne as he continued to dominate the Hip Hop chart with his Lil Wayne Carter V shirt and the rabid fans of Five Finger Death Punch merch gave them a solid 3 weeks on the top of the Hard Rock chart with their new Twin Tonal hoodie.

Merchbar Hot Merch Chart Top 10 – June 2015

1. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND – DMB FULL-ZIP CUSTOM HOODED SWEATSHIRT

2. THE ROLLING STONES - ROLLING STONES IN CONCERT U.S. BABYDOLL T-SHIRT

3. FOO FIGHTERS – FORUM EVENT TEE

4. PINK – P!NK 10 YEARS BOOK WITH PRINT SET

5. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – ULTIMATE COLLECTOR'S BOX SET

6. KREWELLA – KREWELLA DOPEST DOPE TEE

7. COREY TAYLOR – “YOU’RE MAKING ME HATE YOU” BOOK

8. FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE – ALBUM COVER UNISEX T-SHIRT

9. BOB MARLEY – STAGE T-SHIRT

10. THE BEATLES – THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD LITHO

The Merchbar Hot Merch Chart tracks the hottest music merchandise selling online. The chart is written and maintained by Merchbar – the best place to discover and buy band merchandise. Want to learn more, including how to submit new merchandise to be tracked? Click here.