Pig Destroyer, Book Burner(Relapse) 300 sold This is still selling consistently every week? Where are these people coming from? Texas? Texas Hippie Coalition, Peacemaker (Carved) 300 sold This Italian metalcore band has sold almost 5,000 copies in six weeks. Upon This Dawning, To Keep Us Safe(Fearless) 300 sold These guys have sold an impressive 2,600 copies of their sophomore album in three weeks. Sadly, it probably won’t translate into record sales, since it’s only sold 9,000 so far.Īffiance, The Campaign (Bullet Tooth) 320 sold
This is winding up on a lot of year-end lists. The Devin Townsend Project, Epicloud (HevyDevy) 340 sold In Fear & Faith, In Fear And Faith (Rise) 340 sold Geoff Tate, Kings & Thieves (Inside Out) 360 soldĪnother spoiler alert: this one isn’t on anyone’s top ten year end list. Spoiler alert: this is on one of our top ten lists. Neurosis, Honor Found In Decay (Neurot) 450 sold This is winding up on a few year-end lists. Graveyard, Lights Out (Nuclear Blast) 460 sold Porcupine Tree, Octane Twisted(Kscope) 727 soldīy the time you’ve read this, Steven Wilson has probably already recorded another solo project. Much like Coheed & Cambria and Stone Sour, this is the first half of a two-part album suite, with the second following next year. Wintersun, Time I(Nuclear Blast) 740 sold This will cross 25,000 copies next week, which isn’t bad for a song we can still honestly say we’ve never heard. Otherwise, True Love Never Dies (Century Media) 880 sold Less than 40 copies separate these two Rise bands, both of who’s albums came out last week, from each other. Everyone wins.Ĭrown The Empire, The Fallout (Rise) 1,650 sold Volbeat, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven (Universal) 2,450 soldġ70,000 sold in 107 weeks. Once the “radio song” is released (that’d be “What If I Was Nothing”), look for sales to continue. This album has sold about 40,000 in four weeks. Halestorm, The Strange Case Of… (Atlantic) #179, 3,300 soldĪll That Remains, A War You Cannot Win (Razor & Tie) #181, 3,250 sold This keeps selling consistently, and should cross the 100,000 sold barrier by Christmas. In This Moment, Blood (Century Media) #156, 3,900 sold Some of the worst people of the year are insisting on buying the soundtrack to one of the worst movies of the year.
Rock of Ages, Soundtrack (WaterTower Music) #148, 4,300 sold
The first of two albums from the band in the next few months is selling modestly. Stone Sour, House of Gold & Bones(Roadrunner) #142, 4,450 sold Her swan song has sold about 45,000 in five weeks.Įven though it’s their best-reviewed album in a while, Monster isn’t exactly setting the charts on fire. The band’s off to new horizons after Lacey Sturm left. This is going ok for a cash-in to remind people the band probably have a new album coming out soon.įlyleaf, New Horizons (A&M/Octone) #137, 4,550 sold Pretty solid performance.ĪC/DC, Live At River Plate (Columbia) #88, 7,150 This will cross 100,000 sold, most likely the week after next. I guess they have been away for too long…ĭeftones, Koi No Yokan (Reprise) #80, 8,100 sold Soundgarden, King Animal (Roadrunner) #60, 11,450 sold Maybe Steven Tyler alienated fans by going on American Idol Things that are inevitable around Christmas: Black Friday stampedes, A Charlie Brown Christmas on TV, another TSO album on the charts.Īerosmith, Music From Another Dimension! (Columbia) #57, 11,850 sold Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Dreams of Fireflies (On A Christmas Night) (Lava) #23, 24,550 sold This is the only band in the top twenty that got a shout-out from Barack Obama. Led Zeppelin, Celebration Day (Atlantic) #16, 36,400 sold While Taylor Swift’s album has only been out for four more weeks than Kid’s, it’s already sold over 2 million more copies. Kid Rock, Rebel Soul(Atlantic), #9, 46,250 sold Incantation, Vanquish In Vengeance(Listenable) 360 soldĭid you know that Kyle from Incantation has a mustache? A.C. This Michigan progressive metal band has a pretty amazing first week considering that their album is self-released after parting with Good Fight (and three-fifths of their lineup) I Am Abomination, Let The Future Tell The Truth (Self-Released) 600 sold
Besides, all of the top 10 lists we’ve been posting should indicate that the most significant releases this year have all come out by now anyway, and a few of them are still on the charts. When Kid Rock has a top 10 album and there are only a few new metal releases, you know that it’s basically the end of the year as far as metal releases go. Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
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