has earned the top 5 best-selling vinyl album releases in the USA this week as ranked by Billboard on the strength of the six new vinyl reissues of the band’s albums at Walmart. The band the first artist to claim all top 5 slots of the vinyl sales chart since the chart’s debut in 2011.
This week's top-selling vinyl albums:
1. @Metallica Ride The Lightning
2. @Metallica Metallica
3. @Metallica …And Justice For All
4. @Metallica Kill 'Em All
5. @Metallica Master of Puppets— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) February 8, 2021
The five Metallica LPs on the chart are as follows:
- “Ride The Lightning” (1984)
- “Metallica” (1991)
- “…And Justice For All” (1988)
- “Kill ‘Em All” (1983)
- “Master Of Puppets” (1986)
These five albums, plus “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct”, hit Walmart store shelves on January 29. The remastered and re-released its back catalog on its own Blackened Recordings label.