Metallica Have Six of the Top Ten Metal Songs on Apple Music Right Now

Ever wondered how various artists from throughout the metal and hard rock communities stack up against one another when it comes to YouTube views, Apple Music streams, pure album sales, ticket sales (back when those were a thing… and when they become so again) and other metrics? Stream N’ Destroy is a newsletter that features all of those things and then some. Compiled by metal journalist and manager Ryan J. Downey, Stream N’ Destroy, which arrives a couple of times a week, has quickly become one of our most anticipated reads the moment it hits our inbox.

From time to time we’ll be highlighting excerpts from Stream N’ Destroy here on MetalSucks. Today we’ll take a look at the Top 50 Metal Songs on Apple Music as of June 23, which shows a lot of the same homogeneity displayed on last week’s top albums list. A few observations:

• Metallica have six of the top ten songs, despite having not released new music since 2016, and 12 songs in the top 50.
• The newest Metallica song, “Fuel,” from Reload, was released in 1997. Other than that, the most recent Metallica song came out in 1991 (including all six in the top ten).
• Just four bands — Slipknot (8 songs), Tool (8), Lamb of God (7) and Metallica — dominate 70% of the top 50.
• If we add Five Finger Death Punch (4) and Black Sabbath (3), we’re up to 84% occupied by only six acts.

Here’s the entire list of the top 50 metal songs on Apple Music:

1. Metallica “Enter Sandman”
2. Metallica “Nothing Else Matters”
3. Metallica “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
4. Metallica “One” (Remastered)
5. Five Finger Death Punch “A Little Bit Off”
6. Metallica “The Unforgiven”
7. Black Sabbath “Paranoid”
8. Metallica “Fade to Black”
9. Slipknot “Duality”
10. Black Sabbath “Iron Man”
11. Slipknot “Psychosocial”
12. Five Finger Death Punch “Blue on Black”
13. Metallica “Master of Puppets” (Remastered)
14. Five Finger Death Punch “Gone Away”
15. Slipknot “Unsainted”
16. Avenged Sevenfold “Hail to the King”
17. Metallica “Sad But True”
18. TOOL “Sober”
19. Lamb Of God “Memento Mori”
20. Slipknot “The Devil In I”
21. Black Sabbath “War Pigs / Luke’s Wall”
22. Metallica “Wherever I May Roam”
23. Slipknot “Snuff”
24. Slipknot “Wait and Bleed”
25. Lamb Of God “Poison Dream” ft. Jamey Jasta
26. Slipknot “Before I Forget”
27. Pantera “Walk”
28. Ozzy Osbourne “Under the Graveyard”
29. TOOL “Schism”
30. Slipknot “Nero Forte”
31. Five Finger Death Punch “Inside Out”
32. Bad Wolves “Sober”
33. Lamb Of God “Checkmate”
34. TOOL “Forty Six & 2”
35. TOOL “Pneuma”
36. Lamb Of God “Gears”
37. Metallica “Seek & Destroy” (Remastered)
38. Rammstein “Du Hast”
39. Ozzy Osbourne “Ordinary man” ft. Elton John
40. TOOL “The Pot”
41. Lamb Of God “Reality Bath”
42. DragonForce “Through the Fire and Flames”
43. Lamb Of God “Resurrection Man”
44. Lamb Of God “New Colossal Hate”
45. TOOL “Fear Inoculum”
46. Volbeat “Still Counting”
47. TOOL “Invincible”
48. Metallica “Fuel”
49. TOOL “Stinkfist”
50. Metallica “Ride the Lightning”

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