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Metallica, Alice in Chains, Motörhead Top Lists of Most Popular Metal Vinyl of 2020

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The 2020 numbers are in: vinyl is still extremely popular! And metalheads in particular showed a strong penchant for collecting their favorite albums on wax despite the pandemic.

Discogs.com, the online vinyl marketplace and community, published a slew of lists last week detailing the most collected, most expensive and best-selling releases of 2020 on the platform in any genre of music. But MetalSucks has been granted exclusive access to lists of the most collected, most expensive and best-selling releases of 2020 specifically for metal.

While many of the usual suspects top these lists — Metallica are enduringly popular, and black metal fans have long flocked to vinyl — there are some surprises as well.

Here is the list of most collected vinyl — the numbers of users on Discogs who marked themselves of owning a copy — for releases that came out in 2020 (including reissues):

  1. Alice In Chains Facelift 3416
  2. Mgla Age Of Excuse 2262
  3. Various The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2240
  4. Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man 1912
  5. Metallica & The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra S&M2 1875
  6. Iron Maiden Iron Maiden 1845
  7. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard Chunky Shrapnel 1741
  8. Opeth Orchid 1658
  9. Mr. Bungle The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo 1632
  10. Denzel Curry Bulls On Parade 1545
  11. Black Sabbath Evil Woman / Wicked World / Paranoid / The Wizard 1542
  12. Type O Negative World Coming Down 1516
  13. Motörhead Ace Of Spades 1505
  14. Skid Row Slave To The Grind 1416
  15. Paradise Lost Obsidian 1370
  16. Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man 1370
  17. Black Sabbath Paranoid Super Deluxe 1337
  18. Judas Priest British Steel 1238
  19. Various Nativity In Black (A Tribute To Black Sabbath) 1170
  20. Zeal And Ardor Wake Of A Nation 1164
  21. Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man 1162
  22. Death (2) Leprosy 1111
  23. My Dying Bride The Ghost Of Orion 1108
  24. Death (2) The Sound Of Perseverance 1103
  25. Paradise Lost Obsidian 1096

When we expand to include all release regardless of the year they came out, we see some more familiar faces, as well as some of the same entries from the previous list and a TON more Metallica:

  1. Tool Lateralus 3475
  2. Metallica Metallica 3456
  3. Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction 3441
  4. Alice In Chains Facelift 3416
  5. Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast 3295
  6. Metallica Master Of Puppets 2840
  7. Metallica …And Justice For All 2787
  8. Various Peaky Blinders (The Official Soundtrack) 2772
  9. Tool Opiate 2702
  10. Metallica Metallica 2417
  11. Iron Maiden Powerslave 2384
  12. Metallica Metallica 2357
  13. Quiet Riot Metal Health 2326
  14. Black Sabbath Paranoid 2303
  15. Mgła Age Of Excuse 2262
  16. Various The Crow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2240
  17. Black Sabbath Master Of Reality 2190
  18. Metallica Master Of Puppets 2130
  19. Iron Maiden Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 2000
  20. Metallica Master Of Puppets 1950
  21. Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man 1912
  22. Metallica & The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra S&M2 1875
  23. Judas Priest Painkiller 1859
  24. Iron Maiden Iron Maiden 1845
  25. System Of A Down Toxicity 1820

Finally, the most expensive metal albums, regardless of release year, look like this:

  1. Metallica – Ride The Lightning (LP, Album, Ltd, Num, RE, Red) $3,373.48
  2. Reign Of Terror (2) – Don’t Blame Me (7″, Single) $3,000.00
  3. Mayhem – Deathcrush (12″, EP, Ltd) $2,405.61
  4. Mayhem – Deathcrush (12″, EP, Ltd) $2,289.16
  5. Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times (LP, Album, Ltd) $2,168.67
  6. Motörhead – Motörhead (LP, Album, Sil) $2,168.67
  7. Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (LP, Album, Gat) $2,162.65
  8. Bathory – Bathory (LP, Album, Yel) $1,926.51
  9. Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times (LP, Album, Ltd) $1,807.23
  10. Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times (LP, Album, Ltd) $1,807.23
  11. Motörhead – Motörhead (LP, Album, Sil) $1,807.23
  12. Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind (LP, Album, S/Edition, Blu) $1,800.00
  13. Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times (LP, Album, Ltd) $1,746.99
  14. Satyricon – Dark Medieval Times (LP, Album, Ltd) $1,626.51
  15. Burzum – Aske (12″, MiniAlbum, Ltd) $1,626.51
  16. Burzum – Burzum (LP, Album) $1,626.51
  17. Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger (LP, Album) $1,566.27
  18. Ozzy Osbourne – See You On The Other Side (Box, Comp, Ltd, Num, Sig + LP, Album, Red + 12″, E) $1,566.25
  19. Warzwolf – Valley Of The Shadow (LP, Album) $1,500.00
  20. Graf Spee – Reincarnation (LP, Album) $1,500.00

Like we said, Metallica are still enduringly popular… and black metal collectors continuing showing no qualms about spending insane amounts of money on shitty music released by a racist, sexist, former convict. In other words, business as usual!

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