Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
Hello and welcome to 2021, or, as some like to call it, 2020 New Game Plus. Yes, the outlook, for this year is a mix of “let’s hope this year is better” and “2020’s problems don’t magically disappear.” Both statements are valid, though I will say starting off with the death of Alexi Laiho was not the greatest thing. Still, allow me to continue the aforementioned video game metaphor: while new game plus does involve starting over, it also means you keep new abilities and equipment you earned the last time around. So, really, whatever 2021 brings, you’ll be prepared because of 2020. And if nothing else, there’s gonna be new music eventually.
Notable Debuts:
George Lynch & Jeff Pilson, The former Dokken bandmates have released a covers album.
Notable Sales:
AC/DC, A 65% drop with nearly 227,000 sold.
Beastie Boys, 
Metallica & The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, A 57% drop.
Deftones, 
Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade Of Destruction, Volume 2 (Prospect Park)#86 (from 92)
1,175 sold
A 38% with 20,000 sold.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, 
Puscifer, Existential Reckoning (BMG)#93 (from 76)
940 sold
A 64% drop.
Ozzy Osbourne, 880 sold
A 47% drop with over 150,000 sold.
Iron Maiden, Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City(Parlophone Records/BMG)#108 (from 96)
800 sold
A 54% drop with over 25,000 sold.
Five Finger Death Punch, 
Mr. Bungle, The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo (Ipecac)#123 (re-entry)
700 sold
A 10% boost back up.
Smashing Pumpkins, CYR (Sumerian)#125 (from 122)
700 sold
A 47% drop.
Queen + Adam Lambert, 
Pearl Jam, 
Tool, Fear Inoculum (Tool Dissectional LLC/Volcano)#133 (from 143)
680 sold
A 39% drop with over 447,000 sold.
Dream Theater, Distant Memories – Live In London(Century Media)#152 (from 113)
600 sold
A 59% drop.
Chris Cornell, No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1 (A&M)#194 (from 200)
460 sold
This posthumous solo album came out almost a month ago and features various covers.
Thou & Emma Ruth Rundle, May Our Chambers Be Full (Sacred Bones)380 sold
A 3% boost.
Ghostemane, ANTI-ICON (Blackmage)360 sold
A 24% drop.
Hum, 
The Hu, 
Armored Saint, 
Nothing, 
Zakk Sabbath, Vertigo (Magnetic Eye)200 sold
A 21% drop.
Vein, Old Data In A New Machine Vol. 1(Closed Casket)190 sold
This reappears after debuting a month an a half ago.
Deeds Of Flesh, Nucleus (Unique Leader)190 sold
A 24% drop.
Polaris, The Death Of Me (SharpTone)170 sold
Boosted back up by 493%.
Inquisition, Black Mass for a Mass Grave (Agonia)170 sold
A 20% drop.
Sodom, Genesis XIX (eOne)
150 sold
A 55% drop.
Fates Warning, 
Poppy, I Disagree (Sumerian)140 sold
A 50% boost a year after release.
All Them Witches, Nothing As The Ideal (New West)140 sold
A 34% drop.
Enslaved, Utgard (Nuclear Blast)140 sold
A 8% drop.
Of Feather and Bone, Sulfuric Disintegration (Profound Lore)130 sold
A 54% boost.
Wayfarer, A Romance With Violence (Profound Lore)120 sold
A 61% boost.
Vader, Solitude In Madness (Nuclear Blast)120 sold
A 34% boost.
Laura Jane Grace, Stay Alive (Polyvinyl)110 sold
A 65% drop.
Riverside, Lost’N’Found – Live In Tilburg (Century Media)110 sold
A 38% drop.
Benediction, Scriptures (Nuclear Blast)110 sold
A 82% boost.
Necrophobic, Dawn Of The Damned (Century Media)110 sold
A big 135% boost back up.
Anaal Nathrakh, Endarkenment (Metal Blade)110 sold
A 35% boost.
