Metallica’s self-titled album, also known as The Black Album, turns 29 years old on August 12th and it’s still selling like crazy.
OK. Maybe ‘like crazy’ isn’t the right phrase, but at a time when almost no one is purchasing physical copies of music anymore, Metallica still managed to sell over 2,000 copies of The Black Album last week. Add streaming sales to that and the numbers of copies jumps to over 6,000.
According to Metal Injection, that’s more than the new albums from Five Finger Death Punch, Ozzy Osbourne, Lamb of God, and Tool sold last week combined. Keep in mind that all of those albums were released in the last year or two. The Black Album is nearly thirty years old!
Thanks to those sales, The Black Album returned to Billboard’s Top 200 chart, where it has already spent more than 500 weeks.
If you spend any time on social media, though, you’ll see people say things like, ‘Those guys are has-beens’ and ‘What have they even done lately?’ Well, for starters, they just sold a whole bunch of copies of an album that’s almost thirty years old.
So, yeh. That’s what they’ve done lately.
