METALLICA Make Billboard Longest-Charting Albums Ever List
March 20, 2012, 12 years ago
METALLICA has made Billboard's highly-prestigious list of the longest-charting albums with the band's self-titled monster from 1991, which is also the best-selling album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard on March 1, 1991, with units sold of more than 15,735,000.
Billboard's Longest-Charting Albums
800 - Dark Side Of The Moon - PINK FLOYD, 1973490 - Johnny's Greatest Hits - JOHNNY MATHIS, 1958
480 - My Fair Lady - Original Cast, 1956
331 - Highlights from the Phantom of the Opera - Original Cast, 1992
305 - Oklahoma! - soundtrack, 1956 (*includes weeks before the Billboard 200 became a weekly chart the week of March 24, 1956)
302 - Tapestry - CAROLE KING, 1971
295 - Heavenly - JOHNNY MATHIS, 1959
282 - MCMXC a.D. - ENIGMA, 1991
282 - Metallica - METALLICA, 1991
277 - The King and I - soundtrack, 1956
