Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
Notable Debuts:
Dance Gavin Dance, Artificial Selection(Rise)
30,000 sold
The band’s latest album marks their best debut yet, selling over 10k more than their 2016 release.
Tremonti, A Dying Machine (Napalm)
10,000 sold
Mark Tremonti’s fourth studio album doesn’t sell as much as its predecessors, but it’s nothing to shake a stick at either.
Megadeth, Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good! – The Final Kill (Century Media/Legacy)
4,800 sold
Megadeth’s reissue of their 1985 debut album includes their cover of “These Boots”, in case you were wondering.
YOB, Our Raw Heart (Relapse)
4,000 sold
YOB’s triumphant eighth album sold more than 4 times their previous album, making this the band’s highest charting album.
Zeal & Ardor, Stranger Fruit (MVKA Records)
1,500 sold
Following the monumental success of Devil Is Fine, Zeal & Ardor have released album number two, the first to feature a full band.
Exmortus, The Sound Of Steel (Prosthetic)
800 sold
This is the band’s fifth studio album.
Dead Sara, Temporary Things Taking Up Space (Atlantic)
600 sold
This is the band’s second EP. You may have heard their cover of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” in the video game Infamous Second Son.
Uniform & The Body, Mental Wounds Not Healing (Sacred Bones)
500 sold
The Body released their new album a few weeks ago, so naturally they followed up with another collaborative album.
TNT, XIII (Frontiers)
400 sold
The Norwegian band’s thirteenth album is their first in eight years.
Trillium, Tectonic (Frontiers)
250 sold
This is the band’s second album and first since 2011.
Tsjuder, Throne Of The Goat (Expanded Edition) (Season Of Mist)
200 sold
This is a reissue of the band’s 1997 debut EP.
Lago, Sea Of Duress (Unique Leader)
175 sold
This is the band’s second album.
Notable Sales:
Ghost, Prequelle (Loma Vista)
9,600 sold
A 84% drop, but this is a still a good second week.
Five Finger Death Punch, And Justice For None (Prospect Park)
6,800 sold
A 29% drop with just under 90,000 sold.
Shinedown, Attention Attention (Atlantic)
3,700 sold
A 3% drop.
Greta Van Fleet, From the Fires EP (Lava)
3,400 sold
A 7% boost. This will probably hit the 150k mark next week.
Godsmack, When Legends Rise (BMG)
3,100 sold
A 24% drop.
Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade Of Destruction(Prospect Park)
2,100 sold
A 20% drop.
A Perfect Circle, Eat The Elephant (BMG)
2,000 sold
A 9% drop.
Breaking Benjamin, Ember (Hollywood)
2,000 sold
A 17% boost.
Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (Blackened)
2,000 sold
An 82% drop after a huge boost last week.
Bad Wolves, Disobey (Eleven Seven)
1,700 sold
A 9% drop.
Sleep, The Sciences (Third Man)
1,000 sold
Another boost of 8%.
Judas Priest,
Jonathan Davis, Black Labyrinth (Sumerian)
1,000 sold
A 49% drop
Sevendust, All I See Is War (Rise)
800 sold
A 20% drop.
Burn The Priest, Legion: XX (Epic)
700 sold
A 32% drop.
Gruesome, Twisted Prayers(Relapse)
650 sold
A 69% second week drop.
Stone Temple Pilots, Stone Temple Pilots (Rhino)
500 sold
A 36% drop.
Kataklysm, Meditations (Nuclear Blast)
300 sold
A 89% drop in week two.
Graveyard, Peace (Nuclear Blast)
300 sold
A 33% drop.
Amorphis, Queen Of Time (Nuclear Blast)
300 sold
A 23% drop.
Tomb Mold, Manor of Infinite Forms(20 Buck Spin)
200 sold
A 26% drop in week two.
Convictions, Hope For The Broken (InVogue)
200 sold
A second week 77% drop.
Alien Weaponry,
Power Trip, Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord)
175 sold
A 47% drop is the biggest this album has had in a while.
Candlemass, House Of Doom (Napalm)
180 sold
A 44% drop.
Circle of Dust, Machine of Our Disgrace(FiXT)
100 sold
A large 86% drop.
Nervosa, Downfall Of Mankind(Napalm Records)
100 sold
A 76% drop is enough to make one nervous.
