Tag Archives: Stars In Stereo

Metal By Numbers 3/25: This is madness

Posted by on March 25, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. About two weeks ago I mentioned how inclusive we are on this column. I bring this up again because I went to listen to a sample of Sleeping With Sirens’s new album out of curiosity […]

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Metal By Numbers 2/26: The way of the crazy fist

Posted by on February 26, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You might not believe this, but the highest charting metal album this week comes from a band whose name is related to the act of punching or making a fist. And that band actually isn’t Five […]

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Metal By Numbers 2/18: Gunning for sales

Posted by on February 18, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Confession time: I, like many other fine gentlemen wanting to make their Valentines happy, ended up having to go to the movies last weekend to see Fifty Shades of Grey. Surprisingly, it was not […]

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Metal by Numbers 2/12: Blind Guardian go above and beyond

Posted by on February 12, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We knew that Blind Guardian was going to have a solid first week when we saw last week’s Metal by Numbers, when it sold 300 copies even though it wasn’t technically in stores yet. […]

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Metal By Numbers 2/4: Fear of the Chart

Posted by on February 4, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. What we have for you here is the biggest list of debuts of 2015 thus far. And it’s got a couple of doozies, not least of all Periphery heading it off with a double […]

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Metal By Numbers 1/8: New year, same charts

Posted by on January 8, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As is typical of the New Year, we don’t have any debuts this week. That’s soon to change, but for now all we have to tell you is that Taylor Swift is still number […]

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Metal By Numbers: Metal fans choose rock over bust

Posted by on December 10, 2014

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   Notable Debuts: AC/DC, Rock or Bust (Columbia) #3, 171,900 sold Quite an impressive bust, eh? Well, not bad, but just six years ago, their last album Black Ice sold an amazing 784,000 copies in its […]

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Metal By Numbers 12/3: Surviving and streaming

Posted by on December 3, 2014

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You may notice that the charts seem a little weird today, especially when you compare them to last week. What’s going on? Well, times they are a-changin’ is what’s going on. Two weeks ago […]

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Metal By Numbers 7/2: Once more ’round the charts

Posted by on July 2, 2014

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s a strange feeling when something so highly anticipated is finally in your hands. The new Mastodon album was being hyped before recording had officially begun, and if you’re at all like me you […]

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New Tumblr page ‘Band Dudes on Tinder’ is exactly what you’d expect

Posted by on July 1, 2014

If you’re a relatively successful musician with hedonistic tendencies, you can go the Van Halen route and have a roadie scout out girls to give backstage passes to for after the show. However, not everyone has a dedicated roadie or the fan base to do that, and technology has come a long way since then. […]

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