METALLICA’s Black Album Just Spent Its 750th Week On The Billboard 200 Chart Since Its Release

Metallica‘s 1991 smash hit self-titled album, higher generally known as the Black Album by most followers, has formally spent 750 complete weeks on the Billboard 200 chart.

In keeping with a report by Blabbermouth, the Black Album is at present sitting at No. 178 this week and is the fourth album ever to realize 750 complete weeks on the chart – The Darkish Aspect Of The Moon by Pink Floyd, Bob Marley And The Wailers‘ 1984 compilation Legend, and Journey‘s 1988 compilation Biggest Hits are the opposite three.

This should not be to stunning to anybody contemplating the Black Album is the best-selling album because the Nielsen SoundScan period started on March 1, 1991. The Black Album has sold over 17 million copies and has been a degree of nice competition for Metallica followers ever since – although these gross sales numbers clearly painting a report that is doing simply wonderful regardless of the “THEY’RE NOT THRASH ANYMORE!” haters.

Metallica launched their reissue of the Black Album on September 10, 2021 which catapulted it proper again onto the charts, aiding within the above report. The album has landed on the No. 9 spot on the Billboard 200 chart the week after its reissue, making it the primary time the album has cracked the Prime 10 since August 1992.

In keeping with Billboard, The Black Album offered 29,000 copies on the time of its reissue, and had an extra 8,000 mixed gross sales due to streaming numbers. 5 singles additionally reached the Billboard Sizzling 100 – “Enter Sandman”, “The Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Issues”, “The place I Might Roam”, and “Unhappy However True”. The primary three songs are at present sitting fairly within the high 40.

Billboard states “Models comprise album gross sales, monitor equal albums (TEA) and streaming equal albums (SEA). Every unit equals one album sale, or 10 particular person tracks offered from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid-slash-subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.”