Metal record sales ( Nevermore included)

[creepindeath66]

Here are the latest sales figures for various current and catalog metal/hard rock releases in the US (in total units sold to date since the albums were issued), as reported by SoundScan for the week ending April 21st, 2002:

KORN – Issues: 3,047,076
KORN – Follow The Leader: 3,414,717
LIMP BIZKIT – Chocolate Starfish…: 6,259,073
LIMP BIZKIT – Significant Other: 7,237,123
METALLICA – Metallica: 13,101,377
METALLICA – Load: 4,682,409
METALLICA – Re-load: 3,607,713
PANTERA – Reinventing The Steel: 570,148
PANTERA – Great Southern…: 758,681
PANTERA – Far Beyond…: 1,308,380
PANTERA – Vulgar Display…: 1,781,674
MEGADETH – The World Needs…: 195,770
MEGADETH – Risk: 304,236
MEGADETH – Youthanasia: 891, 333
MEGADETH – Countdown To…: 2,134,113
SLAYER – God Hates Us All: 180,867
SLAYER – Diabolus In Musica: 253,302
SLAYER – Divine Intervention: 405,092
ANTHRAX – Volume 8: 77,878
ANTHRAX – Stomp 442: 115,017
ANTHRAX – Sound Of White Noise: 511,284
SLIPKNOT – Iowa: 726,388
SLIPKNOT – Slipknot: 1,414,552
SEPULTURA – Nation: 55,721
SEPULTURA – Against: 127,547
SEPULTURA – Roots: 357,257
SEPULTURA – Chaos A.D.: 452,528
SOULFLY – Primitive: 226,569
SOULFLY – Soulfly: 337,590
FEAR FACTORY – Digimortal: 156,264
FEAR FACTORY – Obsolete: 406,247
FEAR FACTORY – Demanufacture: 240,229
STATIC-X – Machine: 400,320
STATIC-X – Wisconsin Death…: 793,934
ORGY – Vapor Transmission: 319,759
ORGY – Candyass: 1,163,898
PAPA ROACH – Infest: 3,164,840
HOOBASTANK – Hoobastank: 538,762
POWERMAN 5000 – Tonight The Stars…: 1,285,243
POWERMAN 5000 – Mega!! Kung Fu…: 151,474
ROB ZOMBIE – The Sinister Urge: 744,859
ROB ZOMBIE – Hellbilly Deluxe: 2,609,972
OZZY OSBOURNE – Down To Earth: 737,053
OZZY OSBOURNE – Ozzmosis: 1,572,385
MARILYN MANSON – Holy Wood…: 446,756
MARILYN MANSON – Mechanical…: 1,237,008
IRON MAIDEN – Brave New World: 237,814
IRON MAIDEN – Fear Of The Dark: 402,929
IRON MAIDEN – Rock In Rio: 18,525
BRUCE DICKINSON – Chemical Wedding: 39,698
BRUCE DICKINSON – Accident Of Birth: 44,474
BIOHAZARD – Uncivilization: 20,633
BIOHAZARD – New World…: 51,147
BIOHAZARD – Mata Leao: 51,408
BIOHAZARD – State Of The World…: 198,790
JUDAS PRIEST – Demolition: 42,831
JUDAS PRIEST – Jugulator: 108,174
HALFORD – Live Insurrection: 25,532
HALFORD – Resurrection: 60,870
TWO – Voyeurs: 47,469
FIGHT – A Small Deadly Space: 67,407
FIGHT – War Of Words: 223,902
ICED EARTH – Horror Show: 31,967
ICED EARTH – Something Wicked…: 41,590
KING DIAMOND – Abigail II…: 13,466
KING DIAMOND – Voodoo: 32,907
KING DIAMOND – Spider's…: 29,224
MORBID ANGEL – Gateways…: 31,357
MORBID ANGEL – Formulas Fatal…: 43,011
MORBID ANGEL – Covenant: 119,893
DEICIDE – In Torment In Hell: 10,923
DEICIDE – Insineratehymn: 26,939
DEICIDE – Legion: 102,056
CANNIBAL CORPSE – Gore Obsessed: 13,974
CANNIBAL CORPSE – Bloodthirst: 36,574
CANNIBAL CORPSE – Bleeding: 93,588
IN FLAMES – Clayman: 21,773
MESHUGGAH – Chaosphere: 35,232
SAVATAGE – Poets & Madmen: 16,517
SAVATAGE – Edge Of Thorns: 107,880
SOILWORK – Natural Born Chaos: 2,267
SOILWORK – Predator's Portrait: 6,326
SINERGY – Suicide By My Side: 1,300
SINERGY – To Hell And Back: 2,325
CHILDREN OF BODOM – Follow…: 7,946
SENTENCED – Crimson: 7,285
SENTENCED – Frozen: 4,406
SENTENCED – Down: 4,575
TO/DIE/FOR – Epilogue: 649
SKINLAB – Disembody…: 35,925
SKINLAB – Bound, Gagged…: 14,927
AMORPHIS – Am Universum: 7,757
AMORPHIS – Tuonela: 12,765
AMORPHIS – Elegy: 15,100
IMMORTAL – Sons Of Northern…: 3,223
BORKNAGAR – Empiricism: 3,096
HAMMERFALL – Renegade: 8,969
HAMMERFALL – Legacy Of Kings: 14,436
HAMMERFALL – Glory To The…: 11,279
SEBASTIAN BACH – Bring 'Em…: 16,979
NEVERMORE – Dead Heart In…: 19,962
NEVERMORE – Dreaming Neon…: 18,302
ENTOMBED – Morning Star: 2,669
ENTOMBED – Uprising: 3,354
ENTOMBED – Same Difference: 6,808
ENTOMBED – Wolverine Blues: 56,764
HELLACOPTERS – Grande Rock: 8,639
HELLACOPTERS – Payin' The Dues: 8,422
BACKYARD BABIES – Total 13: 2,988
BLIND GUARDIAN – Night At The…: 6,177
BLIND GUARDIAN – Nightfall…: 14,583
PRIMAL FEAR – Nuclear Fire: 3,766
DESTRUCTION – Antichrist: 1,877
DESTRUCTION – All Hell Breaks…: 3,110
KREATOR – Violent Revolution: 2,511
QUEENSRYCHE – Q2K: 147,396
QUEENSRYCHE – Hear In The Now…: 304,075
QUEENSRYCHE – Promised Land: 741,648
MACHINE HEAD – Supercharger: 44,994
MACHINE HEAD – The Burning Red: 134,458
MACHINE HEAD – The More Things…: 115,104
MACHINE HEAD – Burn My Eyes: 145,240
DOWN – II: 62,366
DOWN – Nola: 232,847
ANDREW WK – I Get Wet: 45,598
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD – City: 9,328
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD – No Sleep…: 4,098
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD – Heavy As…: 7,138

 

[antifayth]

why the fuck did 46 thousand people buy that god damn andrew wk cd..... thats fucking crazy..... and less that ten have strapping young lad's city!!!!!!

what a screwed up world...

 

[creepindeath66]

MORBID ANGEL – Covenant: 119,893


that has to be the best selling Death-Metal album ever!!!

 

[TREU IGHT]

Its all rigged so you buy more....

Anyway I reocn alot mor are bootlegged....of NEVERMORE, about double.


Did you know that if they put NEVERMORE onteh cover they are bad sellers.

 

[creepindeath66]

Originally posted by Rusted_in_peace50
SLIPKNOT – Iowa: 726,388
SLIPKNOT – Slipknot: 1,414,552

uke:

 

[creepindeath66]

But this is even worse:

KORN – Issues: 3,047,076
KORN – Follow The Leader: 3,414,717
LIMP BIZKIT – Chocolate Starfish…: 6,259,073
LIMP BIZKIT – Significant Other: 7,237,123

uke:

 

[ledmag]

Originally posted by TREU IGHT



Did you know that if they put NEVERMORE onteh cover they are bad sellers.

I KNEW THAT.....yes its true......magazines dont sell the best when never is on..as a matter of fact.one publications worste selling month in near 60 issue was a NEVRMORE COVER.

 

[jimbobhickville]

This is only in the US. Most real metal sells better overseas.

 

[creepindeath66]

Originally posted by jimbobhickville
This is only in the US. Most real metal sells better overseas.

true, and Soundsscan doesn't include Internet sales!!!

 

[Gums]

Originally posted by creepindeath66


true, and Soundsscan doesn't include Internet sales!!!

Which is ridiculous, since a lot of real metal is impossible to find in stores in the US, so we have no choice but to order through internet.

 

[Devastator]

Originally posted by Rusted_in_peace50
damn, Violent Revolution only sold 2,000 copies, JESUS CHRIST.

Man,that's exactly what I was looking at ...

HOLY SHIT...only 2,000 copies

 

[The Wanderer]

is there anyway to find the figures overseas? is there a worldwide soundscan? and they must figure internet sales sense its such a big avenue for selling music these days. the labels must have some idea, but they probably don't release that information.

 

[true light]

mp3's as well...

I have allthe santuary like thsat

 

[Crown]

I remember reading an interview with jeff and i remember hearing him saying that in germany or greece i think it was the figures were over 100k.

Things are alot better in europe. Shit in england though.

 

[bcg1969]

thanks for the info.its interestin g to see just what sells what.

 

[ThePKH]

Some albums of those even sell better in Finland(5,2 million inhabitants) than in USA. (Sentenced, Children of Bodom, Immortal..)

 

[Hapexamendios]

Originally posted by antifayth
why the fuck did 46 thousand people buy that god damn andrew wk cd..... thats fucking crazy..... and less that ten have strapping young lad's city!!!!!!

what a screwed up world...

Actually, I think I read a few years ago where Obituary's Cause of Death sold about 250,000. That one ruled.

Bald Man

 

[SpeakUSAorDie]

Originally posted by antifayth
why the fuck did 46 thousand people buy that god damn andrew wk cd..... thats fucking crazy.....

what a screwed up world...

Unfortunatly it's the thing called exposure. If say Cannibal Corpse was being played on MTV & VH1 every day for a month, the sales would be much higher(and alot of people would be pissed off!! haha)... but yeah, what a screwed up world is right!

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

MEGADETH – Countdown To…: 2,134,113

It's funny that Fear Factory broke up over "Terrible record sales", when they had 156,264 people buy their album, and yet SYL only sold 9,328 copies of City, and City is a brilliant album, and Digimortal is a peice of trash...!! Haaa!!

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

well....SYL is poor....they are such a great band...argl...hmpf...