Metal By Numbers returns with a closer look at weekly metal sales from December 5, 2025. Yes, we’re catching up, stay tuned, there’s more to come! From major releases to underground newcomers, we’re tracking how these New & Noteworthy releases debuted in charts. This week highlights new albums from NOFX, Scorpions, Blood Red Throne, Enthroned, and more.
Notable Debuts:
Artist/Album: Depeche Mode, Memento Mori: Mexico City (Columbia)
Debut #: 15
Sold: 6750
Artist/Album: NOFX, A To H (Fat Wreck Chords)
Debut #: 47
Sold: 3035
Artist/Album: Scorpions, Coming Home Live (Spinefarm)
Debut #: 55
Sold: 2590
Artist/Album: Wisp, If Not Winter (Music Soup/Interscope)
Debut #: 78
Sold: 1700
Artist/Album: Peyton Parrish, Evangelcore 1
Debut #: 101
Sold: 1360
Artist/Album: Blood Red Throne, Siltskin (Soulseller Records)
Sold: 225
Artist/Album: Jutes, Dilworth (Position Music (MS))
Sold: 185
Artist/Album: Enthroned, Ashspawn (Season of Mist)
Sold: 155
Notable Sales:
Artist/Album: Twenty One Pilots, Breach (Fueled By Ramen)
#: 35
Sold: 3715
Artist/Album: Deftones, Private Music (Reprise)
#: 37
Sold: 3550
Artist/Album: Aerosmith & Yungblud, One More Time (Capitol)
#: 46
Sold: 3060
Artist/Album: Sleep Token, Even In Arcadia (RCA)
#: 54
Sold: 2605
Artist/Album: Ghost, Skeletá (Loma Vista)
#: 64
Sold: 2175
Artist/Album: Creed, The Best Of Creed (Craft Recordings)
#: 84
Sold: 1625
Artist/Album: Nine Inch Nails, Tron: Ares Soundtrack (The Null Corporation/Interscope)
#: 87
Sold: 1600
Artist/Album: Yungblud, Idols (Locomotion Recordings)
#: 90
Sold: 1545
Artist/Album: Stryper, The Greatest Gift Of All (Frontiers)
#: 93
Sold: 1500
Artist/Album: Turnstile, Never Enough (Roadrunner Records)
#: 104
Sold: 1345
Artist/Album: Pretty Reckless, Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas (Fearless Records)
#: 113
Sold: 1225
Artist/Album: Motley Crue, From The Beginning (BMG)
#: 135
Sold: 1035
Artist/Album: The Cranberries, The Cranberries Presents Mtv Unplugged (Island)
#: 142
Sold: 975
Artist/Album: Linkin Park, From Zero (Warner Records)
#: 144
Sold: 950
Artist/Album: Three Days Grace, Alienation (RCA)
#: 162
Sold: 815
Artist/Album: Mammoth, The End (BMG)
#: 167
Sold: 800
Artist/Album: Deafheaven, Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner Records)
#: 174
Sold: 725
Artist/Album: Dream Theater, Quarantième: Live à Paris (Inside Out Music)
#: 181
Sold: 695
Artist/Album: Fontaines D.C., Romance (XL Recordings)
#: 190
Sold: 655
Artist/Album: The Devil Wears Prada, Flowers (Solid State Records)
Sold: 550
Artist/Album: Five Finger Death Punch, Best Of – Volume 2 (Better Noise Music)
Sold: 525
Artist/Album: Led Zeppelin, Live EP (Atlantic)
Sold: 520
Artist/Album: Bilmuri, American Motor Sports (Columbia)
Sold: 480
Artist/Album: Sabaton, Legends (Better Noise Music)
Sold: 475
Artist/Album: Alice Cooper, Welcome To My Nightmare Live From the Forum 6/17/75 (RSD 2025)
Sold: 465
Artist/Album: Spiritbox, Tsunami Sea (Rise Records)
Sold: 450
Artist/Album: Better Lovers, Highly Irresponsible (Sharptone)
Sold: 425
Artist/Album: Dayseeker, Creature In The Black Night (Spinefarm)
Sold: 415
Artist/Album: Rain City Drive, Things Are Different Now (Invogue Records)
Sold: 410
Artist/Album: Falling In Reverse, Popular Monster (Epitaph)
Sold: 380
Artist/Album: Blut Aus Nord, Ethereal Horizons (Debemur Morti Productions)
Sold: 365
Artist/Album: Babymetal, Metal Forth (Capitol)
Sold: 350
Artist/Album: Lynch Mob, Dancing With The Devil (Rat Pak Records)
Sold: 325
Artist/Album: Scorpions, From The First Sting (BMG)
Sold: 320
Artist/Album: Drain, …Is Your Friend (Epitaph)
Sold: 315
Artist/Album: Def Leppard, Greatest Hits (Walmart Exclusive Release)
Sold: 310
Artist/Album: Bad Brains, Live at the Bayou: Washington D.C. July 14, 1980 / March 15, 1981 (RSD 2025)
Sold: 309
Artist/Album: Avatar, Don’t Go In The Forest (Black Waltz)
Sold: 305
Artist/Album: Five Finger Death Punch, Best Of – Volume 1 (Better Noise Music)
Sold: 300
Artist/Album: Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere (Century Media)
Sold: 300
Artist/Album: Sammy Hagar, Sammy Hagar & The Best Of All Worlds Band – The Residency (Big Machine Rock)
Sold: 295
Artist/Album: Lorna Shore, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (Century Media)
Sold: 290
Artist/Album: Whitechapel, Hymns In Dissonance (Metal Blade)
Sold: 285
Artist/Album: Van Halen, Live At Wembley 1995 (RSD 2025)
Sold: 275
Artist/Album: I Prevail, Violent Nature (Fearless Records)
Sold: 270
Artist/Album: Agriculture, The Spiritual Sound (Flenser)
Sold: 265
Artist/Album: Testament, Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast)
Sold: 260
Artist/Album: The Pretty Wild, Zero.Point.Genesis (Sumerian)
Sold: 260
Artist/Album: Halestorm, Everest (Atlantic)
Sold: 250
Artist/Album: Sanguisugabogg, Hideous Aftermath (Century Media)
Sold: 245
Artist/Album: Chiodos, All’s Well That Ends Well (20th Anniversary) (Sumerian)
Sold: 230
Artist/Album: Chevelle, Bright As Blasphemy (BMG)
Sold: 225
Artist/Album: Def Leppard, Diamond Star Heroes: Live From Sheffield (Mercury Studios)
Sold: 225
Artist/Album: Home Team, The Crucible Of Life (Thriller Records)
Sold: 222
Artist/Album: Alice Cooper, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper (earMUSIC)
Sold: 220
Artist/Album: Dance Gavin Dance, Pantheon (Rise Records)
Sold: 215
Artist/Album: Daughtry, Shock To The System – Part Two EP (Big Machine Rock)
Sold: 214
Artist/Album: Dream Theater, The Studio Albums 1992-2011 (Roadrunner)
Sold: 210
Artist/Album: Sleep Theory, Afterglow (Epitaph)
Sold: 209
Artist/Album: Spite, New World Killer (Rise Records)
Sold: 208
Artist/Album: Violent Vira, Lover Of A Ghost (Mom + Pop)
Sold: 205
Artist/Album: Colorblind, Who Sold You This Truth (Solid State Records)
Sold: 204
Artist/Album: Warning, Keep Me Fed (Lava/Republic Records)
Sold: 203
Artist/Album: Volbeat, God Of Angels Trust (Republic Records)
Sold: 202
Artist/Album: Bad Company, Can’t Get Enough: A Tribute To Bad Company
Sold: 202
Artist/Album: Ramones, Live At Cbgb, 1977 (RSD 2025)
Sold: 200
Artist/Album: Coroner, Dissonance Theory (Century Media)
Sold: 195
Artist/Album: Zakk Sabbath, Greatest Riffs (Magnetic Eye)
Sold: 190
Artist/Album: Dream Theater, Parasomnia (Inside Out Music)
Sold: 185
Artist/Album: Spock’s Beard, The Archaeoptimist (Madfish)
Sold: 180
Artist/Album: Agnostic Front, Echoes Of Eternity (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Sold: 180
Artist/Album: The Who, Live At The Oval 1971 (UMe)
Sold: 175
Artist/Album: Warning, Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX (Lava/Republic Records)
Sold: 170
Artist/Album: Poppy, Negative Spaces (Sumerian Records)
Sold: 169
Artist/Album: Jinjer, Duel (Napalm Records)
Sold: 169
Artist/Album: Fleshwater, 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky (Closed Casket Activities)
Sold: 165
Artist/Album: Skillet, Revolution (Hear It Loud)
Sold: 164
Artist/Album: Ghost aka Ghost B.C., Rite Here Rite Now (Loma Vista)
Sold: 163
Artist/Album: A Day To Remember, Big Ole Album Vol. 1 (Fueled By Ramen)
Sold: 160
Artist/Album: Pallbearer, Foundations Of Burden (2025 Redux) (Profound Lore)
Sold: 155
Artist/Album: Spinal Tap, The End Continues (Interscope)
Sold: 150
Artist/Album: Thrice, Horizons/West (Epitaph)
Sold: 145
Artist/Album: Danko Jones, Leo Rising (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Sold: 144
Artist/Album: Dorothy, The Way (Roc Nation)
Sold: 143
Artist/Album: Slaughter To Prevail, Grizzly (Sumerian Records)
Sold: 140
Artist/Album: Peeling Flesh, Pf Radio 2 (Unique Leader)
Sold: 139
Artist/Album: Architects, Sky The Earth & All Between (Epitaph)
Sold: 135
Artist/Album: Castle Rat, The Bestiary (King Volume Records)
Sold: 135
Artist/Album: Orbit Culture, Death Above Life (Century Media)
Sold: 134
Artist/Album: Die Spitz, Something To Consume (Third Man Records)
Sold: 133
Artist/Album: Dying Wish, Flesh Stays Together (Sharptone)
Sold: 133
Artist/Album: Plosivs, Yell At Cloud (Swami Records)
Sold: 132
Artist/Album: Helloween, Giants & Monsters (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Sold: 130
Artist/Album: Rock Orchestra, Classics, Vol. 1
Sold: 130
Artist/Album: Igorrr, Amen (Metal Blade)
Sold: 129
Artist/Album: HARDY, Quit!! (Big Loud Records)
Sold: 129
Artist/Album: Demon Hunter, There Was A Light Here (Weapons Mfg)
Sold: 128
Artist/Album: 1349, Winter Mass (Season of Mist)
Sold: 125
Artist/Album: Faetooth, Labyrinthine (Flenser)
Sold: 125
