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.
