Metallica’s 1991 self-titled fifth LP, aka “The Black Album,” simply spent its 750th week on the Billboard 200 chart, turning into solely the fourth album in historical past to attain that milestone.
Billboard experiences that “The Black Album” solely trails Pink Floyd’s The Darkish Facet of the Moon (990 weeks), Bob Marley’s best-of compilation Legend (843 weeks), and Journey’s Biggest Hits (813 weeks) so far as essentially the most non-consecutive weeks spent on the all-genre album chart.
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“The Black Album” additionally stays the best-selling album of the SoundScan period (which started in 1991) with greater than 17 million copies bought in the USA alone. The LP options the Metallica classics “Enter Sandman,” “The Unforgiven,” “Unhappy however True,” “Nothing Else Issues,” and “The Unforgiven,” amongst different songs.
On the newest Billboard 200, “The Black Album” sits at No. 168. For reference, that’s means larger than pop star Justin Timberlake’s new LP, Every part I Thought It Was, which dropped off the chart solely after 4 weeks of launch.
Greater than 30 years after the discharge of “The Black Album,” and greater than 40 years because the band fashioned, Metallica are nonetheless going sturdy. The metallic legends are within the midst of their huge two-year “M72 World Tour,” taking part in two reveals in every metropolis. A brand new North American leg of the outing launches August 2nd and 4th in Foxborough, Massachusetts, with tickets accessible right here.
In one other milestone, the music video for “Enter Sandman” has reached the very metallic variety of 666 million views on YouTube as of this posting. Watch the basic clip beneath.
.@Metallica‘s ‘Metallica’ has now spent 750 whole weeks on the #Billboard200 (No. 178 this week).
It is the fourth album in historical past to achieve the milestone, after @pinkfloyd‘s ‘The Darkish Facet of the Moon’ (990 whole weeks), @bobmarley‘s ‘Legend’ (843) and @JourneyOfficial‘s…
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) July 15, 2024