Overview
It has only taken three days for Metallica's "Death Magnetic" to reach the half million mark and will lead The Billboard 200 when Nielsen SoundScan releases its charts tomorrow morning (Sept. 17) even though they missed the first half of the week sales.
The band's first studio album since 2003 moved 490,000 copies (according to Nielsen SoundScan), in its abbreviated frame, scheduled off-cycle on a Friday to accommodate a worldwide release date.
It marks the biggest number the chart has seen since five weeks ago, when the Jonas Brothers' "A Little Bit Longer" scaled the list with 525,000 copies with a traditional Tuesday release date.
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