METALLICA's '72 Seasons' Lands At No. 2 On BILLBOARD Album Chart
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According to Billboard, METALLICA's new album, "72 Seasons", sold 146,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week of release to land at position No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart. It marks the band's 12th Top 10-charting album, of which eight have reached the top two.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.
Of "72 Seasons"' 146,000 units earned for the week, album sales comprise 134,000; SEA units comprise 11,500 (equaling 15.91 million on-demand official streams of the set's 12 songs) and TEA units comprise 500.
"72 Seasons" has had the biggest week for any rock or hard rock album since TOOL's "Fear Inoculum" arrived in September 2019 with 270,000 equivalent album units.
According to Official Charts Company, "72 Seasons" has landed at position No. 1 on the U.K. albums chart.
The band's eleventh studio LP outsold the rest of the Top 5 combined to become METALLICA's fourth album — and first in nearly 15 years — to top the U.K. chart.
"72 Seasons" also topped the Official Vinyl Albums chart in the U.K. and lands at No. 1 on the Official Record Store chart as the week's most-purchased LP in the U.K.'s independent record shops.METALLICA previously hit No. 1 in the U.K. with "Metallica" (1991),"Load" (1996) and "Death Magnetic" (2008).
METALLICA's 2016 album "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct", reached No. 2 on the U.K. chart, while several of the band's other efforts also landed in the Top 10: 1988's "…And Justice for All" (No. 4),1997's "Reload" (No. 4) and 2003's "St. Anger" (No. 3) and the orchestral live album "S&M2" (No. 2).
METALLICA's much-maligned collaboration with Lou Reed, 2011's "Lulu", peaked at No. 36.
"72 Seasons" was released on April 14 via METALLICA's own Blackened Recordings. Produced by Greg Fidelman with guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, it is METALLICA's first full-length collection of new material since "Hardwired…To Self-Destruct".
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
