Metallica By The Numbers - by Ryan J. Downey
By The Numbers
26.6M Monthly Spotify Listeners
24.4M Monthly Spotify Followers
9.6M YouTube Channel Subs
4.1M Monthly Pandora Listeners
36M Facebook Followers
9.8M Instagram Followers (Band)
2.4M Instagram Followers (Kirk)
1.6M Instagram Followers (Lars)
1M Instagram Followers (Rob)
6.2M Twitter Followers (Band)
359k Twitter Followers (Kirk)
185k Twitter Followers (Rob)
165k Twitter Followers (Lars)
2.6M TikTok Followers
METALLICA
72 Seasons
(Blackened Recordings)
146,000 Album Units
134,000 Album Sales
No. 2 Billboard 200
No. 1 Top Album Sales
No. 1 Top Rock Albums
No. 1 Top Hard Rock Albums
72 Seasons is the top-selling album of the week with the biggest-selling single week for a rock album since TOOL’s Fear Inoculum arrived in 2019.
“Lux Aeterna” spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on Mainstream Rock radio, tying with their cover of “Turn the Page” for Metallica’s longest-running No. 1 song.
Morgan Wallen remained atop the Billboard 200 for a 7th consecutive week with 166,000 equivalent album units, only 12,000 of which were from sales. (That sales number is up 102%, thanks to a newly released vinyl edition.)
72 Season is No. 1 in Australia, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.
It’s No. 2 in Norway; No. 3 in Italy; and No. 5 in Japan.
72 Seasons is this week’s top Hard Rock album on Spotify worldwide.
1.2B - “Nothing Else Matters” (13 yrs)
587M - “Enter Sandman” (11 yrs)
431M - “The Unforgiven” (13 yrs)
284M - “One” (13 yrs)
223M - “Nothing Else Matters” Fan Live (10 yrs)
160M - “Master of Puppets” Fan Lyric (12 yrs)
135M - “Fade to Black” fan upload (16 yrs)
123M - “Whiskey in the Jar” (13 yrs)
113M - “The Unforgiven” (9 yrs)
112M - “Whiskey in the Jar” (13 yrs)
According to Louder Sound (March 2023)
4.5M - Kill ‘Em All (1983)
6.9M - Ride the Lightning (1984)
7.9M - Master of Puppets (1986)
9.7M - …And Justice for All (1988)
17.1M - Metallica (1991)
5.4M - Load (1996)
4.4M - Reload (1997)
3.3M - Garage Inc. (1998)
2.5M - S&M (1999)
2.0M - St. Anger (2003)
2.1M - Death Magnetic (2008)
1.2M - Hardwired… To Self-Destruct (2016)
1.07B - “Enter Sandman”
930M - “Nothing Else Matters”
657M - “Master of Puppets”
450M - “One”
430M - “The Unforgiven”
355M - “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
346M - “Whiskey in the Jar”
179M - “Fuel”
168M - “Wherever I May Roam”
135M - “Hardwired”
122M - “Turn the Page”
115M - “The Unforgiven II”
112M - “The Day That Never Comes”
99M - “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
97M - “Moth Into Flame”
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Linkin Park (No. 49 overall)
Metallica (No. 60)
Queen (No. 70)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 107)
Nirvana (No. 137)
AC/DC (No. 144)
Måneskin (No. 171)
Twenty One Pilots (No. 192)
Fall Out Boy (No. 194)
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Metallica (No. 63 overall)
Linkin Park (No. 64)
Fall Out Boy (No. 93)
HARDY (No. 105)
Deftones (No. 108)
Queen (No. 116)
Nirvana (No. 118)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 121)
Paramore (No. 145)
blink-182 (No. 157)
Machine Gun Kelly (No. 160)
Panic! At The Disco (No. 168)
AC/DC (No. 175)
Green Day (No. 186)
Led Zeppelin (No. 194)
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Metallica 72 Seasons (No. 43 overall)
Linkin Park Meteora 20th (No. 59)
Linkin Park Meteora (No. 84)
Nirvana Nevermind (No. 94)
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (No. 108)
Miley Cyrus Plastic Hearts (No. 121)
Måneskin RUSH! (No. 127)
GN’R Appetite for Destruction (No. 143)
TØP Blurryface (No. 167)
Metallica Metallica (No. 197)
Hard Rock, Metal, Punk(ish)
Metallica 72 Seasons (No. 74 overall)
HARDY the mockingbird (No. 94)
Nirvana Nevermind (No. 97)
Linkin Park Meteora 20th (No. 112)
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (No. 133)
Sublime Sublime (No. 141)
Linkin Park Meteora (No. 147)
Weezer Weezer (No. 150)
TDG Life Starts Now (No. 168)
System Of A Down Toxicity (No. 199)
16x PLATINUM
Metallica (1991)
8x PLATINUM
…And Justice For All (1988)
6x PLATINUM
Master Of Puppets (1986)
Ride The Lightning (1984)
5x PLATINUM
S&M (1999)
Garage Inc. (1998)
Load (1996)
3x PLATINUM
Reload (1997)
Kill ‘Em All (1983)
2x PLATINUM
Death Magnetic (2008)
St. Anger (2003)
PLATINUM
Hardwired... To Self-Destruct (2016)
The 5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited (1987)
Management: Cliff Burnstein & Peter Mensch / Q-Prime
Booking (North America): Adam Kornfeld / AGI
Booking (Worldwide): John Jackson / K2 Agency
Publicity (North America): Steve Martin / Nasty Little Man
Legal: Peter T. Paterno / King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano
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