METALLICA Perform On UK Television; Video Available
September 17, 2008, 15 years ago
METALLICA performed 'The Day That Never Comes' on the BBC's Later... With Jools Holland on Tuesday (September 16th). Footage of the performance has been posted online and can be viewed below...
According to Billboard.com, in just a three-day sales window, the band's new album, Death Magnetic,skates close to the half million mark and will lead The Billboard 200 when Nielsen SoundScan releases its charts today (September 17th).
The band's first studio album since 2003 moved 490,000 copies in its abbreviated frame, scheduled off-cycle on a Friday to accommodate a worldwide release date.
The total for Metallica's first Warner Bros. album after spending its career with Elektra outdistances the opening sum of its last studio set, St. Anger, which sold 418,000 copies in a similarly shorter-than-normal window.
Originally set for a Tuesday release, Anger was rush released to an off-cycle Thursday start amid concerns over Internet leaks. The last Metallica album to stage a larger opener than Magnetic was 1996's Load, which rolled 680,000 units in its first frame.
