Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
So Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth) is a criminal now I guess. You’d think that, being a fan of Iced Earth, I would be devastated by this turn of events while trying to come to grips with whether I should keep listening to his music or not. Luckily the band’s last two albums kinda sucked and Schaffer thinks COVID is a hoax, so I don’t really care. He can write a shitty concept album about being an American patriot on the walls of his prison cell for all I care. I know you guys don’t come here for politics but give me a break here: it’s January, nothing is out, and the Capitol was stormed only a week ago. It’s a big deal.
Also, there’s no debuts this week, so I decided to go with this cover from an album called evermore. It’s the number 1 album on the charts and I just assumed it was by some folk metal artist like Myrkur judging by the name and cover. Oh. Wait. Oh, you guys are gonna be mad at me…
Notable Sales:
AC/DC, A 22% drop with nearly 227,000 sold.
Beastie Boys, Beastie Boys Music (Capitol)#57 (from 58)
1,475 sold
A 10% drop with just under 30,000 sold.
Metallica & The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, The smallest 1% boost.
Deftones, 
Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade Of Destruction, Volume 2 (Prospect Park)#85 (from 86)
970 sold
A 19% drop.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, 
Ozzy Osbourne, 
Five Finger Death Punch, 
Iron Maiden, Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City (Parlophone Records/BMG)#114 (from 108)
670 sold
A 17% drop.
Tool, 
Mr. Bungle, The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo (Ipecac)#134 (from 123)
570 sold
A 10% boost back up.
Marilyn Manson, We Are Chaos (Loma Vista)#144 (re-entry)
520 sold
A 17% boost back onto the charts.
Smashing Pumpkins, CYR (Sumerian)#146 (from 125)
520 sold
A 26% drop.
Queen + Adam Lambert, 
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Live In San Francisco ’16 (ATO)#160 (re-entry)
470 sold
A 11% boost back up.
Pearl Jam, 
Hatebreed, Weight of the False Self (Nuclear Blast)#178 (re-entry)
430 sold
A 2% boost.
Fit For An Autopsy, The Sea Of Tragic Beasts (Nuclear Blast)#180 (re-entry)
430 sold
A huge boost back up after being absent for a few months.
Ghostemane, 
Pearl Jam, Gigaton (Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records)#197 (re-entry)
380 sold
A 4% drop with over 100,000 sold.
Hum, 
Nothing, 
The Hu, 
Sodom, Genesis XIX (eOne)
270 sold
A 81% boost.
Armored Saint, 
Laura Jane Grace, 
Thou & Emma Ruth Rundle, 
Zakk Sabbath, Vertigo (Magnetic Eye)180 sold
A 11% drop.
Polaris, 
Fates Warning, 
Necrot, Mortal (Tankcrimes)160 sold
A 73% boost back up.
Riverside, 
Belphegor, Necrodaemon Terrorsathan (20th Anniversary Edition) (Nuclear Blast)130 sold
A 51% boost back up.
Spirit Adrift, Enlightened In Eternity (20 Buck Spin/Century Media)120 sold
A 41% boost up.
Jinjer, Alive In Melbourne 2020 (Napalm)110 sold
A 31% boost
Vein, Old Data In A New Machine Vol. 1(Closed Casket)110 sold
A 42% drop.
Imperial Triumphant, Alphaville(Century Media)110 sold
A big 116% boost.
Tags: AC/DC, Armored Saint, Beastie Boys, Belphegor, Dark Tranquillity, Deftones, Emma Ruth Rundle, Fates Warning, Fit For An Autopsy, Five Finger Death Punch, Ghostemane, Hatebreed, Hum, Imperial Triumphant, Iron Maiden, Jinjer, John Petrucci, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Laura Jane Grace, Marilyn Manson, Metallica, Mr. Bungle, Napalm Death, Necrot, Nothing, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Polaris, Puscifer, Riverside, Smashing Pumpkins, Sodom, Spirit Adrift, The Hu, Thou, Tool, Vein, Zakk Sabbath
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