Metallica's 2008 Sales and SoundScan Info

METALLICA's top-selling albums during the SoundScan era in the U.S. (as of December 28, 2008):

* = Released before Soundscan took effect in 1991.

01. "Metallica" (1991): 15,319,000
02. "…And Justice for All" (1988): 5,229,000 *
03. "Load" (1996): 5,020,000
04. "Master of Puppets" (1986): 4,475,000 *
05. "Ride the Lightning" (1984): 4,247,000 *
06. "Reload" (1997): 4,002,000

2008 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS
(12/31/2007-12/28/2008)

1. Tha Carter III/ Lil Wayne 2,874,000
2. Viva La Vida/ Coldplay 2,144,000
3. Fearless/ Taylor Swift 2,112,000
4. Rock N Roll Jesus/ Kid Rock 2,018,000
5. Black Ice/ AC/DC 1,915,000
6. Taylor Swift/ Taylor Swift 1,597,000
7. Death Magnetic/ Metallica 1,565,000
8. Paper Trail/ T.I. 1,522,000
9. Sleep Through the Static/ Jack Johnson 1,492,000
10. I Am...Sasha Fierce/ Beyonce 1,459,000

2008 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(based on Album sales from 12/31/2007-12/28/2008)

1. Taylor Swift 4,003,000
2. AC/DC 3,418,000
3. Lil Wayne 3,382,000
4. Coldplay 2,691,000
5. Metallica 2,466,000
6. Kid Rock 2,405,000
7. Jonas Brothers 2,340,000
8. Sugarland 2,063,000
9. Nickelback 1,953,000
10. Jack Johnson 1,895,000

2008 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL
ALBUMS
(12/31/07-12/28/2008)

1. Viva La Vida/ Coldplay 617,000
2. Sleep Through the Static/ Jack Johnson 325,000
3. Soundtrack/ Juno 280,000
4. Tha Carter III/ Lil Wayne 267,000
5. Fearless/ Taylor Swift 225,000
6. Soundtrack/ Twilight 214,000
7. We Sing We Dance.../ Jason Mraz 184,000
8. 808s & Heartbreak/ Kanye West 183,000
9. Circus/ Britney Spears 172,000
10. Death Magnetic/ Metallica 158,000

2008 TOP TEN INTERNET ALBUMS
(12/31/2007-12/28/2008)

1 Death Magnetic/ Metallica 144,000
2. Little Bit Longer/ Jonas Brothers 119,000
3. Viva La Vida/ Coldplay 112,000
4. Fearless/ Taylor Swift 82,000
5. Winter Came/ Enya 75,000
6. Soundtrack/ Twilight 74,000
7. Black Ice/ AC/DC 62,000
8. Promise/ Il Divo 62,000
9. Soundtrack/ High School Musical 3 56,000
10. David Cook/ David Cook 55,000

2008 TOP TEN VINYL ALBUMS
(12/31/2007-12/28/2008)

1. In Rainbows/ Radiohead 25,800
2. Abbey Road/ Beatles 16,500
3. Chinese Democracy/ Guns N' Roses 13,600
4. Funplex/ B-52's 12,800
5. Third/ Portishead 12,300
6. In the Aeroplane.../ Neutral Milk Hotel 10,200
7. Dark Side of the Moon/ Pink Floyd 10,200
8. Fleet Foxes/ Fleet Foxes 9,600
9. Death Magnetic/ Metallica 9,400
10. O.K. Computer/ Radiohead 9,300

2008 TOP TEN VINYL ARTISTS
(based on vinyl album sales from 12/31/2007-12/28/2008)

1. Radiohead 61,200
2. Metallica 39,500
3. Beatles 20,400
4. Elliott Smith 17,800
5. Bob Dylan 15,200
6. Portishead 15,100
7. Ryan Adams 14,000
8. Coldplay 13,900
9. Guns N' Roses 13,600
10. Neutral Milk Hotel 13,200

TOP SELLERS IN SOUNDSCAN ERA:

TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA
(1991-12/28/2008)

1. Garth Brooks 68,143,000
2. Beatles 57,088,000
3. Mariah Carey 51,569,000
4. Metallica 51,136,000
5. Celine Dion 50,571,000
6. George Strait 40,619,000
7. Tim McGraw 37,591,000
8. Alan Jackson 36,520,000
9. Pink Floyd 35,213,000
10. Shania Twain 33,707,000

TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA
(1991-12/28/2008)

1. Come On Over/ Shania Twain 15,473,000
2. Metallica/ Metallica 15,319,000
3. Jagged Little Pill/ Alanis Morissette 14,607,000
4. Millennium/ Backstreet Boys 12,104,000
5. Soundtrack/ Bodyguard 11,805,000
6. Supernatural/ Santana 11,673,000
7. Human Clay/ Creed 11,525,000
8. Beatles 1/ Beatles 11,345,000
9. No Strings Attached/ N Sync 11,109,000
10. Falling Into You/ Celine Dion 10,777,000

-- Metallica's "Death Magnetic" is the best selling Internet album for the year with 144,000 sales.

Top 10 Best Heavy Metal & Hard Rock Albums and Concerts of 2008!

Here are my picks for the best metal and rock albums and concerts of the year. The last blog post of '08! This was a great year for me as I saw many great shows and met some awesome bands, and even some douchebags. All in all, it was fan-fuckin'-tastic year and I look forward to what lies ahead for me in '09.

Cheers!

My Top Ten Albums of 2008:

1. Metallica - Death Magnetic (naturally!)
2. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
3. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
4. AC/DC - Black Ice
5. Testament - The Formation of Damnation
6. Soulfly - Conquer
7. Motorhead - Motorizer
8. Cavalera Conspiracy - Cavalera Conspiracy
9. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
10. Death Angel - Killing Season

Honorable Mention:

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
Metal Church - This Present Wasteland
Venom - Hell

Best Concerts I Attended:

1. Suicidal Tendencies (w/ Madball and Whole Wheat Bread)
2. "InflikTour" (w/ Cavalera Conspiracy, Dillinger Escape Plan, Throwdown, Bury Your Dead, and Incite)
3. Carcass Reunion Tour (w/ Suffocation, 1349, Necrophagist, Aborted, and Rotten Sound)
4. Exodus (w/ Goatwhore, Arsis, and Warbringer)
5. GWAR (w/ Kingdom of Sorrow and Toxic Holocaust)
6. Testament (w/ Children of Bodom, Black Dahlia Murder, and Between the Buried and Me)
7. Motorhead (w/ Valient Thorr)
8. "Blackest of Black Tour" (w/ Danzig, Dimmu Borgir, Moonspell, Skeletonwitch, and Winds of Plague)
9. Death Angel and God Forbid (w/ Arsis and Martyrd)
10. Summer Slaughter Tour (w/ Black Dahlia Murder, Kataklysm, Despised Icon, Vader, Aborted, Cryptopsy, Born of Osiris, The Faceless, and Whitechapel)

Honorable Mention:

Testament (w/ Nethereal and Martyrd)
Soulfly (w/ Bleed the Sky, Devastation, and Incite)
Possessed and Mortician (w/ Midnight, Malkuth, Black Anvil, Sacrificial Blood, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, and Bloodfeast)
Opeth (w/ Nachtmystium and High on Fire)
Obituary (w/ Unleashed and Carnifex)
Brutal Truth (w/ Malignancy, Macabre, and Devourment)
Suffocation (w/ Eyes of the Dead and Nethereal)
Nile (w/ Unexpect, Suicide Silence, The Faceless, and Warbringer)
Hate Eternal (w/ Skeletonwitch, Soilent Green, and Toxic Holocaust)
Hate Eternal (w/ Black Dahlia Murder, 3 Inches of Blood, and Decrepit Birth)
Mortician (w/ Buckshot Facelift, Goreaphobia, and Squash Bowels)

Dishonorable Mention:

Sigh (w/ Unexpect, Nethereal)