Metallica just scored its sixth #1 album on the Billboard 200 with its latest release, Hardwired…to Self-Destruct. The album moved 291,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release, including 282,000 in pure album sales. Those figures represent the third-largest album debut of 2016, following Drake’s Views with 1.04 million equivalent album units and Beyonce’s Lemonade with 653,000 units. Hardwired also sold better than any rock album in a single week since Coldplay’s Ghost Stories moved 382,000 copies in June 2014.

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