Posted by Metallifreak on 29.09.2008 at22:27:
Album sales
With astonishing effort Death Magnetic became the fastest selling album in one week since Christmas 2006 making it the fastest selling album of 2007 and 2008 to date.
Owning the charts this week an additional four Metallica albums are situated in the chart. Metallica (24). Master Of Puppets (33), And Justice For All (36) and Ride The Lightening (3
giving Metallica five albums within the top 40. Two DVDs are in the top 15 - The Videos 1989 - 2004 (7) and S&M (12) and six singles are in the top 100 on digital sales alone, "Day That Never Comes" (3
, "Unforgiven III" (41), "My Apocalypse" (74), "Cyanide" (75), "Enter Sandman" (83) and "Nothing Else Matters" (100). Death Magnetic was also the highest selling digital album, the first #1 digital album for Metallica as it's the first time one of their albums has be simultaneously release physically and digitally.
Metallica's latest album 'Death Magnetic' has topped the album charts in 25 countries.
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