Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
I wasn’t here last week to do the charts and comment on the passing of Chester Bennington, but I’m not sure what I can say that hasn’t been said better elsewhere. Linkin Park weren’t one of my favorite bands growing up, but I certainly remember when “Numb” was playing everywhere and how formative they were for kids back then. In slightly happier news, Nine Inch Nails have a new release, which is always an event on Metal By Numbers. Also, I’ve only got general sales numbers for you this week, so no chart positions and some notable bands might be missing.











Even more copies of the new Linkin Park album sold this week.
Metallica, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (Blackened)
5,500 sold

Seether, Poison The Parish (Canine Riot)
1,000 sold
A 29% drop.
Skillet, Unleashed (Atlantic)
900 sold
Over 200,000 sold
Volbeat, Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie (Universal)
700 sold
Over 152,000 sold so far.
Decapitated, Anticult (Nuclear Blast)
400 sold
Boris, Dear (Sargent House)
Debut #117
300 sold
These guys will be touring with Mutoid Man in the fall.
An 80% drop in week two.
Tags: Alestorm, Bloodclot, Boris, Cytotoxin, Dayseeker, Decapitated, Decrepit Birth, DED, Dying Fetus, Goatwhore, Hundredth, I Prevail, In This Moment, Incubus, Integrity, Knocked Loose, Linkin Park, Melvins, Metallica, Motionless In White, Mr. Big, Municipal Waste, Nickleback, Nine Inch Nails, Origin, Polyphia, Rise Against, Seether, Shattered Sun, Silverstein, Skillet, Stone Sour, Suffocation, Sworn In, Tau Cross, The Acacia Strain, To Speak of Wolves, Trapped Under Ice, Unisonic, Volbeat, Wintersun
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