Death Magnetic Sells 490k Copies in Three Days

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September 17th, 2008 Posted in Music

I love this fucking album. Billboard reports:

In just a three-day sales window, Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” (Warner Bros.) sold nearly half a million copies and tops The Billboard 200. The band’s first studio album since 2003 moved 490,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. “Death Magnetic” hit shelves on Friday instead of last Tuesday in order to accommodate a worldwide release date.

This total outdistances the opening sum of its last studio set, “St. Anger,” which sold 418,000 copies in a similarly shorter-than-normal window. The last Metallica album to stage a larger opener than “Magnetic” was 1996’s “Load,” which rolled 680,000 units in its first frame.

Metallica is the first group to see five of its albums bow at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. Previously, the act was tied with the Beatles, U2 and the Dave Matthews Band, with four each. It is also Metallica’s fifth consecutive studio album to debut at No. 1 and its seventh release to start with more than 300,000 since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data.

The Jonas Brothers can officially suck it. I don’t know if I’ve demonstrated this yet, but I have an undying hatred for the Jonas Brothers. To me they are everything that is wrong with the music industry. They are a corporately manufactured pop “band” whose sole purpose is to make Disney money, and wouldn’t you know it, the tone-deaf tween girls are eating up their shit like its made of strawberry ponies. So, it’s quite satisfying to see that a real band like Metallica just about eclipsed the Jonas Douchers’ week-long sales in three days. And they did it with an album that is absolutely beautiful. So, once again, the Jonas Brothers should go on an African Safari and swim in the rivers during the wildebeest migration.