Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
We’re still operating on limited sales info, but I do have some extra numbers to share as requested by a few fine upstanding commenters from last week. I’ve added Projected’s new album to the charts below, and Korn’s new album sold 600 copies this week and has sold about 127,000 overall. I unfortunately don’t have any numbers for Maiden’s new album at this time.
Notable Debuts:
Alice Cooper, Paranormal (earMUSIC)
13,000 sold
Alice Cooper’s latest album doesn’t chart as high as 2011’s Welcome 2 My Nightmare, but it’s still solid.
Rings Of Saturn, Ultu Ulla (Nuclear Blast)8,000 sold
The band’s fourth album marks their best debut yet.
Shaman’s Harvest, This is the band’s sixth studio album.
Oceans Ate Alaska, Hikari (Fearless)3,000 sold
The band’s sophomore efforttheir debut.
Rex Brown, Smoke On This… (eOne Music)2,000
This is Rex Brown’s first true blue solo album.
Make Them Suffer, Worlds Apart (Rise)2,000 sold
This is the band’s third album. It’s #29 in their native Australia.
Prong, Zero Days (Steamhammer/SPV)1,300 sold
Prong latest sells a little less than last year’s release.
Byzantine, The Cicada Tree (Metal Blade)1,100 sold
Signing to Metal Blade appears to have paid off for the Byz as their sixth album debuted with almost double what their last album sold.
Spite, Nothing Is Beautiful (Stay Sick)1,100 sold
This is the band’s second LP.
Celldweller, Offworld (FiXT)1,100 sold
This is the seventh album for multi-instrumentalist Celldweller.
Seventh Day Slumber, Found (VSR)800 sold
This Christian rock band (as you can tell by the name) releases its eleventh LP.
Jackyl, Jackyl 25 (INgrooves)700 sold
This is a compilation album from Jackyl.
Notable Sales:
Linkin Park, By next week this will probably hit the 200,000 mark.
Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (Blackened)
5,000 sold
500 less than last week.
In This Moment, Ritual (Atlantic/Roadrunner Records)4,000 sold
An 81% second week drop.
Stone Sour, Hydrograd (Roadrunner)2,500 sold
Nearly 50,000 sold.
Nine Inch Nails, A 92% drop in week two.
Rise Against, Wolves (Virgin)1,200 sold
A 16% boost.
Motionless In White, 
Wintersun, The Forest Seasons (Nuclear Blast)950 sold
A 66% second week drop.
Seether, Poison The Parish (Canine Riot)
900 sold
Over 52,000 sold.
750 sold
A 74% drop in week two.
Silverstein, 
Dying Fetus, 
Ded, Mis•an•thrope (Surestone)500 sold
Over 3,000 sold.
Projected, Ignite My Insanity (Ratpak)400 sold
Over 5,000 sold thus far.
Decapitated, Anticult (Nuclear Blast)
400 sold
This sold the same as last week.
Decrepit Birth, Axis Mundi (Nuclear Blast)400 sold
A second week 73% drop.
6,500 sold so far.
Goatwhore,
Bloodclot, 100 less copies than last week.
Alestorm,
Boris, Dear (Sargent House)
200 sold
A slight drop. Oh, dear.
To Speak Of Wolves, 
Shattered Sun, 
