{"id":82789,"date":"2020-09-08T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82789"},"modified":"2020-09-08T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:42:38","slug":"metallica-sm2-debuts-no-1-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=82789","title":{"rendered":"METALLICA – \u2018S&M2\u2019 Debuts No. 1 In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cS&M2\u201d becomes the 890th No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2020), the 740th for ARIA (1983 to 2020), the 527th to debut in the top spot, and the 24th that has debuted at the top this year, while for 2020 this is the 28th No.1 album, and for their record label \u2018Blackened\u2019 this is its second No.1, as the bands 2016 set \u201cHardwired\u2026 to Self Destruct\u201d (28th of Nov., 2016) was the other one for one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week The Killers became the first band to score a No.1 Album in Australia within the past three decades, 2000\u2019s, 2010\u2019s and now 2020\u2019s, well this week Metallica becomes the first band to log a No.1 album within the past FOUR decades, as the bands self titled \u201cblack album\u201d from 1991 debuted at the top 29 years and one week ago (25th of August, 1991), and below is a list of their previous No.1 sets\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25-Aug-1991 \u2013 Metallica (1 week)
16-Jun-1996 \u2013 Load (2 weeks)
29-Nov-1999 \u2013 S&M (1 week)
16-Jun-2003 \u2013 St. Anger (2 weeks)
22-Sep-2008 \u2013 Death Magnetic (1 week)
28-Nov-2016 \u2013 Hardwired\u2026 to Self Destruct (1 week)
07-Sep-2020 \u2013 S&M2 (1 week so far)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this new set becoming the seventh No.1 album for Metallica, the band becomes equal sixth on the list for \u2018Accumulated No.1 Albums; 1965 to 2020\u2019 alongside Rod Stewart, Elton John, The Twelfth Man, The Rolling Stones and The Foo Fighters. And on the list for \u2018Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums\u2019 they rise from 83rd to 76th, just behind Pearl Jam (9 weeks from 8 #1\u2019s). Of course there has been a previous \u201cS&M\u201d at No.1 as an album title, the bands first from almost 21 years ago, 29th of November, 1999, for a one week stay. The new No.1 album is also the 315th for an American Act (solo, duo, group, male or female) and the eleventh for 2020, while for groups (local or overseas), this becomes the 394th, and also the 13th for this year. The album has also landed at No.1 this week in Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Scotland (so far).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Noise11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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