Metal By Numbers 8/3: A crown atop the charts

Metal By Numbers 8/3: A crown atop the charts

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I just got back from vacation and after having not done the charts for two weeks lets just say that the pace at which I completed this particular edition felt similar...
Muse, Shinedown go gold and platinum

Muse, Shinedown go gold and platinum

  Until last year, when the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) began factoring streaming into what counts as an album sale, there weren’t anywhere near as many albums or singles qualified as gold or platinum albums (meaning sales of 500,000...