Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
It’s hard for me to find time to just sit and listen to new music nowadays and it’s harder when it’s early in the year and I haven’t found anything I’m interested in yet. Luckily, there’s a new Kvelertak album out, and I that’s what I chose to listen to while writing up this week’s Metal By Numbers. I also listened to the new Ozzy Osbourne album, and if you check out Headbanger’s Brawl you can read what I and the rest of the Metal Insider staff thought of it.
Notable Debuts:
Hollywood Undead, New Empire, Vol. 1 (BMG)Debut #18
5,800 sold
This debuted with less than three times what its predecessor sold.
Suicide Silence, Become The Hunter (Nuclear Blast)Debut #30
3,600 sold
The band’s sixth studio album sold less, charted higher than its negatively received predecessor.
Black Swan, Shake The World (Frontiers)Debut #44
2,450 sold
This band features current and former members of Whitesnake, Dokken, Ace Frehley.
Kvelertak, Splid (Rise)Debut #60
1,750 sold
Kvelertak’s third album charted higher, sold lower than its 2016 predecessor.
Brian Posehn, Grandpa Metal (Megaforce)Debut #113
940 sold
Brian Posehn, who wrote the song this column is named after, releases his first album since 2013.
This is Ihsan’s first EP.
Archon Angel, Fallen (Frontiers Music)Debut #187
590 sold
This is the debut album by the a band fronted by Zak Stevens (Savatage, Circle II Circle)
Psychotic Waltz, The God-Shaped Void(Century Media)460 sold
This is the band’s fifth studio album and first in 24 years.
Seven Spires, Emerald Seas (Frontiers Music)410 sold
This is the band’s second studio album.
Necrowretch, The Ones From Hell (Season Of Mist)260 sold
This is the band’s fourth studio album.
Godthrymm, Reflections (Profound Lore)210 sold
This is the band’s debut album.
Hardline, Life Live (Frontiers)210 sold
Hardline’s new album comes a year after their latest studio album.
Notable Sales:
Tool, 
Breaking Benjamin, 
KoRn, 
Stone Temple Pilots, 
Slipknot, 
Theory Of A Deadman, 
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, 
Alter Bridge, 
Avenged Sevenfold, Diamonds in the Rough(Warner Bros.)#151 (from 22)
700 sold
A 82% drop in week two.
Skillet, 
The Hu, 
Greta Van Fleet, 
Sons of Apollo, 
Bodysnatcher, 
Blood Incantation, 
British Lion, 
Revolution Saints, 
Lorna Shore, 
Caspian, 
Sylosis, 
Richie Kotzen, 
Jinjer, A 3% drop.
Loathe, 
Rival Sons, 
Fire From The Gods, 
Diabulus In Musica, Euphonic Entropy (Napalm)190 sold
Tags: Alter Bridge, Annihilator, Archon Angel, Avenged Sevenfold, Black Swan, Blood Incantation, Bodysnatcher, Breaking Benjamin, Brian Posehn, British Lion, Caspian, Delain, Diabulus In Musica, Godthrymm, Greta Van Fleet, Hardline, Hollywood Undead, Ihsahn, Jinjer, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Kirk Windstein, Korn, Kvelertak, Loathe, Lorna Shore, Midnight, Psychotic Waltz, Queen, Revolution Saints, Richie Kotzen, Rival Sons, Sepultura, Seven Spires, Skillet, Slipknot, Sons of Apollo, Stone Temple Pilots, Suicide Silence, Sylosis, The Hu, Theory Of A Deadman, Tool
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