Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
Strong debuts continue to pour in for the first quarter of 2017 with newer bands like Code Orange making a name for themselves followed by well-known legends from Sepultura to Accept to Grave Digger. And Metallica are still pulling in big numbers, and not just with their new album; The Black Album sold another 3,600 copies and their other first four albums are still latched onto the Billboard 200. Better late than never to get into Metallica, right? Or maybe people have finally worn out that Master of Puppets cassette tape.
3,250 sold
Sepultura, Machine Messiah (Nuclear Blast)
Debut #86
1,900 sold
Sepultura’s fourteenth studio album manages to outdo the previous release in 2013, it’s pretty well reviewed too.
Accept, Restless and Live (Nuclear Blast)
Debut #117
1,550 sold
Accept have released their fifth live album.
Pain of Salvation, In the Passing Light of Day (InsideOut Music)
Debut #194
820 sold
This is the band’s tenth album, which is number 32 in Finland.
Grave Digger, Healed by Metal (Napalm)
480 sold
This is Grave Digger’s 18th studio album.
Black Anvil, As Was (Relapse)
420 sold
This is the NYC based band’s fourth album.
Lo-Pan, Worth the Pain (Aqualamb)
270 sold
This is a new EP from Lo-Pan following their 2014 LP Colossus.
The Drip, The Haunting Fear of Inevitability (Relapse)
270 sold
This is the band’s debut LP.
Beyond the Black, Lost in Forever (UDR)
190 sold
This is the German band’s second album.
Notable Sales:
Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (Blackened)
#12 (from 10)
9,175 sold
A drop of 10% and over 550,000 sold.
Halestorm, ReAniMate 3.0: The CoVeRs EP (Atlantic)3,900 sold
A 74% drop doesn’t bring this down too far.
Avenged Sevenfold, The Stage (Capitol)
#68 (from 58)
2,250 sold
A slight drop of 8%. If the band’s still selling this much per week, it’s doing pretty well for them.
Disturbed, Immortalized (Reprise)
#78 (from 86)
2,000 sold
A 10% boost brings this just under 540,000 sold.
I Prevail, Lifelines (Fearless)
#111 (from 101)
1,650 sold
A slight boost of 4%.
Skillet, Unleashed (Atlantic)
#114 (from 86)
1,600 sold
This takes a 10% drop and is just below 160,000 sold.
Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (Prospect Park)
#123 (from 121 )
1,450 sold
A boost of 9%.
Highly Suspect, The Boy Who Died Wolf (300 Entertainment)
#129 (from 109)
1,350 sold
A howlin’ 10% drop.
Korn, The Serenity of Suffering (Roadrunner)
#144 (from 124)
1,175 sold
An 11% drop.
Nine Inch Nails, Not the Actual Events (The Null Corporation)
#159 (from 81)
1,025 sold
Inching downward with a 46% drop.
Shinedown, Threat To Survival (Atlantic)
#160 (from 159)
1,025 sold
A 10% boost after being back on the charts for 10 weeks.
Volbeat, Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie (Universal)
#181 (from 166)
890 sold
The tiniest 1% boost.
Thousand Foot Krutch, Exhale (TFK)
#193 (re-entry)
830 sold
This got boosted back up by 34%.
Gone Is Gone,
Letters From The Fire, Worth the Pain (Sand Hill)
300 sold
Another boost, this time by 51%.
Amaranthe, Maximalism (Spinefarm)
210 sold
A 17% boost.
Red Sun Rising,
Gemini Syndrome, Memento Mori (Another Century)
200 sold
A 17% drop. I wonder if anyone in the band is actually a gemini?
Dirkschneider, Live – Back to the Roots (AFM)
190 sold
The other Accept-related live album gets boosted by 24%.
Glenn Hughes,
Through Fire, Breathe (Sumerian)
150 sold
A slight drop of 5%.
