Just Five Metal Bands Dominate Nearly 100% of Top 25 Most Streamed Albums
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The most recent Stream N’ Destroy newsletter, which arrived this morning, highlights the Apple Music Metal Albums chart as of March 10, among other rankings. And, unsurprisingly, a small handful of bands completely dominate the chart.
Taking a look at the top 100 of that chart, just five bands dominate 41% of the ranked albums: Metallica (12), Five Finger Death Punch (10), Black Sabbath (7), Slipknot (6), and Tool (6). Narrowing it down to the top 50, those same five bands occupy 35 slots, or 70%. And zeroing in further on the top 25, the same acts comprise nearly 100% of the rankings, with the lone outlier, Ozzy Osbourne, obviously having a close affiliation to one of the aforementioned bands.
Here’s the entire top 100:
- Metallica, Metallica (1991)
- TOOL, Fear Inoculum (2019)
- Metallica, Ride the Lightning (1984)
- Five Finger Death Punch, F8 (2020)
- Black Sabbath, Paranoid (1970)
- TOOL, Lateralus (2001)
- TOOL, 10,000 Days (2006)
- TOOL, AEnima (1996)
- Metallica, …And Justice for All (Remastered Deluxe Box Set) (1988)
- Slipknot, We Are Not Your Kind (2019)
- Metallica, Master of Puppets (Remastered) (1986)
- Slipknot, Slipknot (1999)
- Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade of Destruction (2017)
- Metallica, Kill ‘Em All (1983)
- Five Finger Death Punch, And Justice for None (Deluxe) (2018)
- Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell (Deluxe Edition) (1980)
- Slipknot, Iowa (2001)
- Ozzy Osbourne, Ordinary Man (2020)
- TOOL, Undertow (1993)
- Slipknot, All Hope is Gone (2008)
- Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (Deluxe) (2015)
- Slipknot, Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses (2004)
- Five Finger Death Punch, American Capitalist (2007)
- Five Finger Death Punch, The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell V1 (2013)
- Metallica, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct (Deluxe) (2016)
- Metallica, Load (1996)
- Slipknot, .5: The Gray Chapter (Special Edition) (2014)
- Pantera, Vulgar Display of Power (Deluxe Video Version) (2012)
- Black Sabbath, Master of Reality (1971)
- Bad Wolves, N.A.T.I.O.N. (2019)
- Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade of Destruction, Vol. 2 (2020)
- Killswitch Engage, As Daylight Dies (Special Edition) (2006)
- Lamb Of God, Lamb Of God (2020)
- ERRA, ERRA (2021)
- Lamb Of God, Ashes of the Wake (15th Anniversary) (2004)
- ICE NINE KILLS, The Silver Scream (FINAL CUT) (2019)
- Pantera, Cowboys from Hell (1990)
- Iron Maiden, The Number of the Beast (2015 Remastered Edition)(1982)
- Five Finger Death Punch, War is the Answer (2009)
- Love And Death, Perfectly Preserved (2021)
- Metallica, Death Magnetic (2008)
- Metallica, Reload (1997)
- Epica, Omega (2021)
- Black Sabbath, Mob Rules (Deluxe Edition) (1981)
- Five Finger Death Punch, The Way of the Fist (2007)
- Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath (1970)
- Rammstein, RAMMSTEIN (2019)
- GOJIRA, Magma (2016)
- Currents, The Way It Ends (2020)
- Ghost, Prequel (2018)
- Wage War, Pressure (2019)
- In This Moment, Mother (2020)
- Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz (40th Anniversary Expanded Edition)(1980)
- Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath, Vol. 4 (1972)
- Megadeth, Rust in Peace (1990)
- Polaris, The Death of Me (2020)
- Scarlxrd, Dxxm II (2021)
- Pantera, The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern…(2003)
- LANDMVRKS, Lost in the Waves (2021)
- Architects, Holy Hell (2018)
- Killswitch Engage, Atonement (2019)
- Metallica, Garage, Inc. (1998)
- Metallica, S&M2 (Live) (2020)
- Megadeth, Countdown to Extinction (Remastered) (1992)
- Fit For A King, The Path (2020)
- Five Finger Death Punch, The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell V2 (2013)
- Tool, Opiate – EP (1992)
- Sabaton, The Great War (2019)
- Lamb Of God, Sacrament (2006)
- The Amity Affliction, Everyone Loves You… Once You Leave Them (2020)
- As I Lay Dying, Shaped by Fire (2019)
- Trivium, What the Dead Men Say (2020)
- Pantera, Far Beyond Driven (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1994)
- Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)
- Knocked Loose, A Different Shade of Blue (2019)
- Parkway Drive, Ire (Deluxe Edition) (2016)
- Underoath, They’re Only Chasing Safety (2004)
- The Amity Affliction, Let The Ocean Take Me (Deluxe) (2015)
- The Hu, The Gereg (Deluxe Edition) (2020)
- August Burns Red, Guardians (2020)
- Rammstein, Mutter (2001)
- Killswitch Engage, The End of Heartache (Bonus Track Version)(2004)
- Metallica, S&M (Live) (1999)
- GOJIRA, The Way of All Flesh (2007)
- Knocked Loose, Laugh Tracks (2016)
- Iron Maiden, Piece of Mind (2015 Remastered Edition) (1983)
- Bad Omens, Finding God Before God Finds Me (Deluxe) (2020)
- Sabaton, The Last Stand (2016)
- Alpha Wolf, A Quiet Place to Die (2020)
- Pantera, The Great Southern Trendkill (20th Anniversary Edition)(1996)
- GOJIRA, From Mars to Sirius (2006)
- The Ghost Inside, The Ghost Inside (2020)
- Ghost, Meliora (Deluxe Edition) (2015)
- Slayer, Reign in Blood (1986)
- Static-X, Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
- Wage War, Deadweight (2017)
- Amon Amarth, Berserker (2019)
- Iron Maiden, Powerslave (2015 Remastered Edition) (1984)
- Rammstein, Sehnsucht (1997)
- Judas Priest, Screaming for Vengeance (1981)
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