by Matt Brown | Apr 20, 2017 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Blah blah happy 4/20 bro blah blah. We don’t have a whole bunch of doom/stoner bands on the debut list this week, though the two that are...
by Matt Brown | Apr 12, 2017 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Mastodon have been a cornerstone for modern metal for years now, so to see them take the top spot makes my day. In a time where many metal bands that...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 10, 2017 | Mastodon Insider, Metal By Numbers
We’ll obviously give you the bigger picture later this week with Metal by Numbers, but it was a great week for Mastodon and their seventh album, Emperor of Sand. The band’s return to conceptual albums after their last two has been a critical success,...
by Matt Brown | Apr 5, 2017 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. One of the things I’ve enjoyed about writing this column for nearly five years (wait, that long?) is seeing sales patterns of bands growing in popularity,...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 3, 2017 | Metal By Numbers, News
Back in October, Avenged Sevenfold released The Stage with no advance notice. While the band still sold a respectable 72,000 copies it’s first week, that’s less than half of what their past two albums had sold in their first two weeks. In fact,...
by Matt Brown | Mar 29, 2017 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Oh, hello. Missed you all last week. But we’re back with MBN where some things have change, some are the same. For example, Metallica are still in the top ten...