Metallica’s 1991 self-titled album has grow to be the fourth studio launch ever to attain a historic chart report.

The album, affectionately often called The Black Album, has formally spent a complete of 750 weeks on the Billboard 200. It’s the fourth report in historical past to spend that period of time on the chart, following Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), the Bob Marley and The Wailers compilation album Legend (1984) and Journey’s Greatest Hits (1988).

Therefore, The Black Album is the youngest album to attain the chart milestone ? and is the second studio album to achieve this, because the Bob Marley and Journey albums are each compilations.

To put the period of time it is spent on the chart into perspective, 750 weeks comes out to about 14.38 years. The album initially peaked at No. 1 on Aug. 31, 1991, and it at present sits at No. 178 on the Billboard 200 practically 33 years later.

Metallica was the legends’ breakthrough into the mainstream, although they have been already favorites amongst the thrash steel neighborhood for years earlier than that. It offered 598,000 copies in its first week, and spent a complete of 4 weeks straight on high of the chart.

Since then, it is offered over 30 million copies worldwide, 17 million of which have been within the U.S. alone.

After it turned their first No. 1 album, Load (1996), Reload (1997), St. Anger (2003), Death Magnetic (2008) and Hardwired… To Self-Destruct (2016) all topped the chart as properly.

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Their newest report, 2023’s 72 Seasons, peaked at No. 2.

Some of the opposite longest-charting Billboard 200 albums embrace Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Chronicle (1976) best hits compilation, Nirvana’s Nevermind (1991), Guns N’ Roses’ Greatest Hits (2004), AC/DC’s Back in Black (1980) and Queen’s Greatest Hits (1981).

Congrats to Metallica!