Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
Arch Enemy have cracked Billboard’s top 20, and that’s a good thing. Seeing metal bands reach high spots on the charts it always nice to see, especially when it’s a band that’s been around a long time. That’s 21 years in the case of Arch Enemy. What’s more, this comes two albums after the departure of renowned vocalist Angela Gossow who helped the band to hit their stride. Oh, and having Jeff Loomis in your band doesn’t hurt either. On another note, I’ll be gone for the next two weeks, so see you all in October.
Lynch Mob, The Brotherhood (Rat Pak)
Alter Bridge, Live At The O2 Arena + Rarities (Napalm Records)
Living Colour, Shade (MRI)
Stray From The Path, Only Death Is Real (Sumerian)
End, From The Unforgiving Arms Of God (Good Fight Music)
Being As An Ocean, Waiting For Morning To Come (Self-Released)
Comeback Kid, Outsider (Nuclear Blast)
Burn, Do or Die (Deathwish Inc.)
Novelists, Noir (Sharptone)
Spoken, IX (Fuel)
Cannabis Corpse, Left Hand Pass (Season Of Mist)
Lionize, Nuclear Soul (The End Records)
Threshold, Legends of the Shires (Nuclear Blast)
Usnea, Portals Into Futility (Relapse)
Queens Of The Stone Age, Villains (Matador Records)
#21 (from 4)
6,425 sold
This dropped by 47% and has sold over 87,000 copies in two weeks.
Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (Blackened)
#32 (from 101)
4,800 sold
Crazy big boost of 216%.
Linkin Park, 2,225 sold
A 29% drop. A show in honor of Chester Bennington has been announced.
Greta Van Fleet, Black Smoke Rising EP (Republic)
#98 (from 78)
1,650 sold
An 8% drop and over 20,000 sold.
Alice Cooper, A drop of 5% with nearly 25,000 sold.
Stone Sour,
In This Moment, Ritual (Atlantic/Roadrunner Records)A 21% drop.
Steven Wilson,
Dead Cross, Dead Cross (Ipecac Recordings)
Epica, 
Paradise Lost, 
Septicflesh, Codex Omega (Prosthetic)
Shaman’s Harvest, 
Venom Inc, Avé (Nuclear Blast)
The Haunted, Strength In Numbers (Century Media)
200 sold
Not much strength after a 48% drop.
Tags: Alice Cooper, Alter Bridge, Arch Enemy, Being As An Ocean, Brendon Small, Burn, Cannabis Corpse, Comeback Kid, Dead Cross, Dying Fetus, End, Epica, Greta Van Fleet, In This Moment, Linkin Park, Lionize, Living Colour, Lynch Mob, Metallica, Nickleback, Novelists, Paradise Lost, Queens of the Stone Age, Septicflesh, Shamans Harvest, Spoken, Steven Wilson, Stone Sour, Stray From The Path, The Haunted, Threshold, Usnea, Venom Inc.
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