METALLICA - Black Album Hits 16 Million In Sales
May 28, 2014, 10 years ago
Metallica's mega-selling self-titled 1991 album has hit a new sales threshold. Billboard is reporting that the album, which continues to be the best-selling release of the Nielsen SoundScan era, has become the first album to sell 16 million copies since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.
Metallica - often referred to as "The Black Album" because of its stark cover art - sold another 3,000 copies in the week ending May 25th. That brings its cumulative total to 16,002,000.
SoundScan began tracking US music sales in 1991. Its point-of-sale data was first used to compile the Billboard 200 albums chart on May 25th, 1991. Metallica marked the group's first #1 that year, when it debuted atop the list.
Read more at Billboard.
