METALLICA - 72 Seasons Enters Billboard Album Chart At #2

03:56 Monday, 24 April 2023

Metallica released their 11th studio album, 72 Seasons, on April 14, 2023, via their own label, Blackened Recordings.

According to Keith Caulfield of Billboard, in the Top 10 of the new Billboard 200, Metallica blasts in at #2 with its new studio album, 72 Seasons. The set debuts with 146,000 units earned – achieving the largest week, by units, for any rock or hard rock album in over three-and-a-half years. It also marks the band’s 12th Top 10 charting album – of which eight have reached the top two.

Of 72 Seasons’ 146,000 units earned, album sales comprise 134,000 — it’s the top-selling album of the week, and it bows with the biggest sales week for any rock or hard rock album since Tool's Fear Inoculum debut with 248,000 sold in September 2019.

72 Seasons was led by the single “Lux Æterna”, which racked up 11 weeks at #1 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart – tying the band’s cover of “Turn The Page” (1998-99) for its longest ruler atop the list. The album’s title track rose from #8 to #6 on the most recently published Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated April 29), and marks the group’s 26th Top 10-charting song on the tally.

The new April 29, 2023-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on April 25.

Produced by Greg Fidelman with frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and clocking in at over 77 minutes, the 12-track 72 Seasons is Metallica’s first full length collection of new material since 2016’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct.

For a full listing of configurations and further information, go to metallica.com.

72 Seasons tracklisting:

"72 Seasons"
"Shadows Follow"
"Screaming Suicide"
"Sleepwalk My Life Away"
"You Must Burn!"
"Lux Æterna"
"Crown Of Barbed Wire"
"Chasing Light"
"If Darkness Had A Son"
"Too Far Gone?"
"Room Of Mirrors"
"Inamorata"

"Inamorata" video: