Additional cementing their standing because the reigning thrash steel kings, Metallica‘s 1991 landmark self-titled album has simply earned a double diamond certification in the US by the RIAA. That uncommon milestone represents over 20 million items of the album shifted within the U.S. since its 1991 launch.
Solely 14 albums have managed to achieve that certification to this point. This newest accolade makes the so-called ‘Black Album’ the thirteenth highest promoting album of all-time in the US. In case your curious, you’ll find the albums who’ve offered extra through riaa.com.
That’s not all although, as Metallica have additionally newly been awarded one other spectacular gross sales accolade, with their third full-length album, 1986’s genre-defining “Grasp Of Puppets“, newly hitting 8x multi-platinum standing in the US.
Each of the aforementioned albums have since benefitted from deluxe field units, with the “Grasp Of Puppets” set arriving again in 2017, and the self-titled album’s set arriving in 2021. “Grasp Of Puppets” additionally had a viral second again in 2022, when it’s title monitor was used within the fourth season of the hit Netflix collection ‘Stranger Issues‘, introducing the track to hundreds of thousands of recent listeners.
The band’s 1993 dwell set, “Dwell Shit Binge & Purge” has additionally newly obtained gold, platinum & 21x platinum standing, although gross sales/streaming information for that that accolade is calculated in another way and represents 2.1 million items offered.
Metallica have been truly awarded a raft of recent gross sales certifications immediately, Might twenty eighth, by the RIAA, right here’s the rundown
- “Metallica” (2x diamond)
- “Dwell Shit Binge & Purge” (video field set) (gold, platinum & 21x platinum)
- “Enter Sandman” (9x platinum)
- “Grasp Of Puppets” (album) (8x platinum)
- “One” (platinum & 5x platinum)
- “Kill ‘Em All” (4x platinum)
- “Reload” (4x platinum)
- “Grasp Of Puppets” (single) (platinum & 3x platinum)
- “For Whom The Bell Tolls” (platinum & 3x platinum)
- “Unhappy However True” (gold, platinum & 2x platinum)
- “The Unforgiven” (platinum & 2x platinum)
- “Fade To Black” (platinum & 2x platinum)
- “Wherever I Might Roam” (gold & platinum)
- “Flip The Web page” (gold & platinum)
- “Search & Destroy” (gold & platinum)
- “…And Justice For All” (single) (gold)
- “Welcome Residence (Sanitarium)” (gold)
- “The Reminiscence Stays” (gold)
- “The 4 Horsemen” (gold)
- “Experience The Lightning” (single) (gold)
- “King Nothing” (gold)
- “I Disappear” (gold)
- “Hero Of The Day” (gold)
- “Hardwired” (gold)
- “Don’t Tread On Me” (gold)
- “Creeping Loss of life” (gold)
- “Blackened” (gold)
- “Battery” (gold)
A platinum album/single in the US represents 1,000,000 items, whereas gold signifies 500,000 items. Exterior of conventional bodily/digital gross sales, the certifications think about digital streams/downloads with 10 everlasting monitor downloads counting as 1 unit and 1500 on-demand audio/video streams from a specific album additionally counting as as a unit.
