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Home News 6 METALLICA Albums Made The Best-Selling Metal Albums of 2016 List; Here’s The Whole List

6 METALLICA Albums Made The Best-Selling Metal Albums of 2016 List; Here’s The Whole List

Metallica sell, and everybody’s buying. We all know that the Black Album is a monster, however sometimes we might forget, that the rest of their early catalog still sells very very well.

To my point, Metal Insider compiled a list of the top selling metal albums of the last yr, and 5 Metallica records rank within the top 6, with the band’s debut coming in at #19. The only other band within the top 5 are Disturbed, with Megadeth’s Dystopia ranking at  #7. Here’s the list:

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1.Metallica, Hardwired… To Self Destruct (Blackened Recordings)
516,000 sold
2.Disturbed, Immortalized (Reprise)
298,000 sold
3.Metallica, Metallica (Blackened Recordings)
267,500 sold
4.Metallica, Master of Puppets (Blackened Recordings)
163,000 sold
5.Metallica, …And Justice For All (Blackened Recordings)
155,000 sold
6.Metallica, Ride the Lightning (Blackened Recordings)
153,000 sold
7.Megadeth, Dystopia (Tradecraft/uME)
148,000 sold
8.Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (Prospect Park)
146,500 sold
9.Avenged Sevenfold, The Stage (Capitol)
144,000 sold

10.Guns N’ Roses, Greatest Hits (Interscope/Geffen)
138,000 sold
11.Deftones, Gore (Reprise)
133,000 sold
12.Volbeat, Seal the Deal & Lets Boogie (Republic)
123,000 sold
13.AC/DC, Back in Black (Columbia)
117,000 sold
14.Guns N’ Roses, Appetite For Destruction (Interscope/Geffen)
115,000 sold
15.Nirvana, Nevermind (Interscope/DGC)
114,000 sold
16.Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (Atlantic)
113,000 sold
17.Shinedown, Threat to Survival (Atlantic)
110,000 sold
18.Pierce the Veil, Misadventures (Fearless)
105,000 sold
19.Metallica, Kill ’em All (Blackened Recordings)
104,000 sold
20.A Day To Remember, Bad Vibrations (ADTR)
102,000 sold
21.Korn, The Serenity of Suffering (Roadrunner)
100,000 sold

It goes to show that legacy acts are still where all the big money is. The only newer bands here are A Day To Remember, Pierce the Veil and Volbeat – all who have already got a decade below their belt. Avenged Sevenfold may have likely been much higher on this list, had they gone the traditional promo route.

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