by Bram Teitelman | Mar 20, 2017 | Metal By Numbers, Metallica Insider, News
Last week, Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self Destruct had a monster week, selling 81,000 copies. It’s return to the upper echelon of the chart was due to the fact that anyone that bought a ticket for their forthcoming WorldWired tour got a...
by Matt Brown | Mar 15, 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. What better way to follow up the release of a controversial Suicide Silence album than with a new release from another band that seems universally reviled. Not that...
by Zenae Zukowski | Mar 14, 2017 | Metal By Numbers, News, Releases
Metallica should be considered as geniuses when it comes to selling albums. When Metallica released Hardwired…To Self-Destruct in November, we saw it debut at #1 on The Billboard 200 album charts, selling 291,000 copies in its first week. We assumed...
by Matt Brown | Mar 8, 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. We have twenty debuts listed here, making it the biggest week so far for metal in 2017. Spearheading it is Suicide Silence, and though they’re still the top...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 6, 2017 | Metal By Numbers
Suicide Silence knew that they were taking a big chance by jettisoning the deathcore sound that defined their first four albums. Their fifth one, which was released on February 24th, was produced by Ross Robinson and featured a ton of clean singing from Eddie...
by Matt Brown | Mar 1, 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. Some people think puns, like the many found on this website, are the laziest form of humor ever concocted. To those people I say…you’re no pun. Anywho,...