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Metallica

Country: US
Birth: 1981-10-28
Active: Yes

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Genre: Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal

On-demand audio streams A-
Monthly listeners 49.6m 17
Lead streams 24.3b 16
Feat streams 74.3m 1
Monthly revenue $1.1m 16
Sales data A
CSPC units 180.0m 18
Pure albums 147.2m 18
Physical singles 15.5m 13
Digital singles 40.8m 15
Spotify statistics A-
Lead streams 15.9b 16
Feat streams 48.5m 1
Monthly listeners 30.5m 16
Followers 31.3m 15
100m+ tracks 29 13
Popularity 86 17
Followers / Listeners 1.0 10
Replay value 7.3 17
Trends & Indicators B
Daily streams 7.5m 15
Daily listeners +/- 63.9k 10
Daily followers +/- 10.6k 15
Monthly streams 221.5m 15
Monthly listeners +/- 1.1m 11
Weekly followers +/- 83.1k 16
Trend 0.9 10
Globalness 39.7 14
Playcounts are 7+ days old

Monthly listeners map

Below map represents the 50 cities where the artist has the most Spotify monthly listeners.


Album sales map

This second map is based on pure album sales by country.

Artist career totals

Albums statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.

'Av.' stands for Average, 'LD' for Last Day.

As a reminder:

  • Studio Album: sales of the original album
  • Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
  • Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
  • Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
  • Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)

Songs statistics

Figures in equivalent album sales generated through all formats.

Studio album sales

Compilation album sales

Physical singles sales

Downloads and ringtones sales

Most streamed songs (Top 20)

# Seq. Album Song Spotify total Spotify daily AOD total EAS
1 435 Metallica Enter Sandman - Remastered 2021 1,778,005,007 1,217,015 2,823,982,238 1,882,654
2 490 Metallica Nothing Else Matters - Remastered 2021 1,431,988,865 766,553 2,274,409,298 1,516,272
3 201 Master Of Puppets Master Of Puppets - Remastered 1,066,160,932 625,499 1,693,369,548 1,128,913
4 357 …And Justice For All One - Remastered 718,577,966 432,179 1,141,308,041 760,872
5 560 Metallica The Unforgiven - Remastered 2021 641,994,966 303,158 1,019,672,258 679,781
6 84 Ride The Lightning For Whom The Bell Tolls - Remastered 630,390,740 437,954 1,001,241,417 667,494
7 871 Garage Inc. Whiskey In The Jar 540,695,475 247,767 858,779,593 572,519
8 516 Metallica Sad But True - Remastered 2021 446,877,737 280,572 709,770,100 473,180
9 74 Ride The Lightning Fade To Black - Remastered 387,865,966 203,986 616,042,471 410,694
10 848 Reload Fuel 341,395,945 260,915 542,234,741 361,489
11 38 Kill 'Em All Seek & Destroy (Remastered) 306,948,341 234,247 487,522,059 325,014
12 584 Metallica Wherever I May Roam - Remastered 2021 275,656,329 158,587 437,821,363 291,880
13 138 Master Of Puppets Battery - Remastered 196,039,777 100,284 311,367,429 207,578
14 853 Reload The Unforgiven II 191,808,549 120,506 304,647,024 203,098
15 870 Garage Inc. Turn The Page 190,485,706 103,491 302,545,970 201,697
16 954 Hardwired…To Self-Destruct Hardwired 182,851,026 53,520 290,419,907 193,613
17 917 Death Magnetic The Day That Never Comes 171,279,606 90,921 272,041,171 181,360
18 102 Ride The Lightning Ride The Lightning - Remastered 156,679,375 107,375 248,851,814 165,901
19 64 Ride The Lightning Creeping Death - Creeping Death EP Version / Remastered 150,617,539 79,813 239,223,879 159,482
20 247 Master Of Puppets Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Remastered 148,196,054 64,045 235,377,866 156,918
Album Song
∑ = 9,954,515,901 ∑ = 5,888,387 ∑ = 15,810,628,196 ∑ = 10,540,418
Unlock full updated discography data Table keys
  • Seq. stands for sequence. It sorts albums in discographic order.
  • Spotify total reflects release to date (RTD) streams of the track as shown on their software.
  • Spotify daily is calculated based on streams over the last 1 day(s).
  • AOD (Audio on-demand) reflects total streams through all AOD platforms, Spotify included. The non-Spotify part is an algorithm based figure which considers the main artist's strength and Spotify shares in each market.
  • AOD streams divided by 1,500 would provide equivalent album sales (EAS) for the track.
  • The 'Song' and 'Album' grey fields at the bottom of the table allow filtering on them.

Thresholds - CSPC

Date Format Title Milestone
2025-07-30 Album Load 13,000,000
2025-07-29 Artist Metallica 180,000,000
2025-07-28 Album 72 Seasons 1,000,000
2025-07-28 Album Metallica (Black Album) 53,000,000
2025-07-28 Album …And Justice For All 21,000,000
2025-07-28 Album Master Of Puppets 20,000,000
2025-07-28 Album Ride The Lightning 17,000,000
2025-07-28 Album Kill 'Em All 11,000,000
2025-05-11 Album Garage Inc. 9,000,000
2025-05-11 Album Reload 10,000,000
2025-05-11 Album Load 12,000,000

Thresholds - Spotify KPIs

Date KPI Milestone
2025-02-28 Followers 30,000,000
2024-11-20 Followers 29,000,000
2024-08-19 Followers 28,000,000
2024-05-12 Followers 27,000,000
2023-09-23 Followers 26,000,000
2023-06-12 Followers 25,000,000
2023-03-09 Followers 24,000,000
2022-12-10 Followers 23,000,000
2022-08-03 Listeners 29,000,000
2022-07-24 Followers 22,000,000
2022-04-22 Followers 21,000,000
2022-01-05 Followers 20,000,000
2021-09-24 Followers 19,000,000
2021-06-19 Followers 18,000,000
2021-03-10 Followers 17,000,000
2020-12-10 Followers 16,000,000
2020-08-31 Followers 15,000,000
2020-06-05 Followers 14,000,000
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Thresholds - Streams

Date Format Title Milestone
2025-07-22 Album …And Justice For All 1,400,000,000
2025-07-12 Album Metallica (Black Album) 5,100,000,000
2025-07-01 Single Seek & Destroy (Remastered) 300,000,000
2025-06-23 Album Death Magnetic 500,000,000
2025-06-17 Album Kill 'Em All 800,000,000
2025-06-16 Single Nothing Else Matters - Remastered 2021 1,400,000,000
2025-06-16 Single One - Remastered 700,000,000
2025-06-16 Single Harvester of Sorrow - Remastered 100,000,000
2025-06-05 Album Metallica (Black Album) 5,000,000,000
2025-05-22 Single Orion - Remastered 100,000,000
2025-05-22 Single Enter Sandman - Remastered 2021 1,700,000,000
2025-05-16 Album Ride The Lightning 1,600,000,000
2025-05-15 Single For Whom The Bell Tolls (Remastered) 600,000,000
2025-05-04 Album Garage Inc. 1,100,000,000
2025-04-30 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,900,000,000
2025-04-24 Album Master Of Puppets 1,700,000,000
2025-04-08 Artist
leads
Metallica 15,000,000,000
2025-04-02 Artist
all credits
Metallica 15,000,000,000
2025-03-31 Single Master Of Puppets - Remastered 1,000,000,000
2025-03-20 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,800,000,000
2025-03-06 Single The Unforgiven 600,000,000
2025-03-06 Single The Unforgiven - Remastered 2021 600,000,000
2025-02-26 Single Don't Tread on Me - Remastered 2021 100,000,000
2025-02-24 Album …And Justice For All 1,300,000,000
2025-02-07 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,700,000,000
2025-02-04 Single Enter Sandman 1,600,000,000
2025-01-28 Album Reload 700,000,000
2025-01-28 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,600,000,000
2025-01-22 Single Nothing Else Matters 1,300,000,000
2025-01-19 Album Ride The Lightning 1,500,000,000
2025-01-06 Album Master Of Puppets 1,600,000,000
2024-12-17 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,500,000,000
2024-12-05 Album …And Justice For All 1,200,000,000
2024-11-22 Artist
leads
Metallica 14,000,000,000
2024-11-16 Artist
all credits
Metallica 14,000,000,000
2024-11-02 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,400,000,000
2024-10-14 Album Kill 'Em All 700,000,000
2024-10-09 Single Enter Sandman 1,500,000,000
2024-10-03 Album Garage Inc. 1,000,000,000
2024-09-20 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,300,000,000
2024-09-15 Album Ride The Lightning 1,400,000,000
2024-09-05 Single Master Of Puppets 900,000,000
2024-09-01 Single One 600,000,000
2024-08-28 Album Master Of Puppets 1,500,000,000
2024-08-13 Single Nothing Else Matters 1,200,000,000
2024-08-09 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,200,000,000
2024-07-03 Artist
leads
Metallica 13,000,000,000
2024-06-28 Artist
all credits
Metallica 13,000,000,000
2024-06-27 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,100,000,000
2024-06-24 Album …And Justice For All 1,100,000,000
2024-06-21 Single Enter Sandman 1,400,000,000
2024-06-16 Album Reload 600,000,000
2024-06-02 Album Hardwired…To Self-Destruct 700,000,000
2024-05-20 Album Ride The Lightning 1,300,000,000
2024-05-15 Album Metallica (Black Album) 4,000,000,000
2024-04-24 Album Master Of Puppets 1,400,000,000
2024-03-28 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,900,000,000
2024-03-07 Album Garage Inc. 900,000,000
2024-02-27 Single Nothing Else Matters 1,100,000,000
2024-02-17 Single Enter Sandman 1,300,000,000
2024-02-14 Single Master Of Puppets 800,000,000
2024-02-09 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,800,000,000
2024-02-01 Artist
leads
Metallica 12,000,000,000
2024-01-28 Artist
all credits
Metallica 12,000,000,000
2024-01-17 Album Kill 'Em All 600,000,000
2023-12-29 Album Ride The Lightning 1,200,000,000
2023-12-21 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,700,000,000
2023-12-21 Album …And Justice For All 1,000,000,000
2023-12-06 Album Master Of Puppets 1,300,000,000
2023-11-01 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,600,000,000
2023-10-02 Single Enter Sandman 1,200,000,000
2023-09-12 Album Reload 500,000,000
2023-09-11 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,500,000,000
2023-08-29 Single Nothing Else Matters 1,000,000,000
2023-08-24 Artist
leads
Metallica 11,000,000,000
2023-08-21 Artist
all credits
Metallica 11,000,000,000
2023-07-24 Album Garage Inc. 800,000,000
2023-07-21 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,400,000,000
2023-07-20 Album Master Of Puppets 1,200,000,000
2023-07-14 Single Master Of Puppets 700,000,000
2023-05-20 Single Enter Sandman 1,100,000,000
2023-05-04 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,300,000,000
2023-04-04 Album Ride The Lightning 1,100,000,000
2023-03-27 Album …And Justice For All 900,000,000
2023-03-15 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,200,000,000
2023-03-06 Album Ride The Lightning 1,000,000,000
2023-02-28 Album Master Of Puppets 1,100,000,000
2023-01-23 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,100,000,000
2022-12-13 Album Garage Inc. 700,000,000
2022-12-01 Album Hardwired…To Self-Destruct 600,000,000
2022-11-30 Album Metallica (Black Album) 3,000,000,000
2022-10-30 Album Master Of Puppets 1,000,000,000
2022-10-19 Album Ride The Lightning 900,000,000
2022-10-16 Artist
leads
Metallica 9,000,000,000
2022-10-05 Album Metallica (Black Album) 2,900,000,000
2022-09-07 Album …And Justice For All 800,000,000
2022-08-12 Album Metallica (Black Album) 2,800,000,000
2022-08-04 Album Master Of Puppets 900,000,000
2022-06-22 Album Metallica (Black Album) 2,700,000,000
2022-05-27 Album Ride The Lightning 800,000,000
2022-05-17 Album Master Of Puppets 800,000,000
2022-05-16 Artist
leads
Metallica 8,000,000,000
2022-04-24 Artist
all credits
Metallica 8,000,000,000
2022-04-22 Album Metallica (Black Album) 2,600,000,000
2022-04-11 Album Garage Inc. 600,000,000
2022-03-19 Album …And Justice For All 700,000,000
2022-03-18 Album …And Justice For All 600,000,000
2022-03-17 Album Ride The Lightning 700,000,000
2021-01-31 Artist
all credits
Metallica 6,000,000,000
2021-01-31 Artist
leads
Metallica 6,000,000,000
2020-06-14 Artist
leads
Metallica 4,000,000,000
2020-05-17 Artist
leads
Metallica 5,000,000,000
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Overtakings

Date Ranking Overtaking
2025-07-29 Top Artists CSPC - All Time Metallica climb from #21 to #18.
2025-07-29 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #94 to #90.
2025-07-29 Top Albums CSPC - All Time Metallica (Black Album) climbs from #17 to #16.
2025-07-29 Top Albums CSPC - Year 1986 Master Of Puppets climbs from #5 to #4.
2025-07-29 Top Songs CSPC - All Time Nothing Else Matters climbs from #81 to #76.
2025-07-29 Top Songs CSPC - All Time Enter Sandman climbs from #86 to #80.
2025-07-26 Top Songs CSPC - All Time Nothing Else Matters climbs from #82 to #81.
2025-07-03 Top Songs CSPC - All Time Enter Sandman climbs from #86 to #85.
2025-07-01 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1991 Enter Sandman climbs from #6 to #2.
2025-07-01 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1986 Master Of Puppets climbs from #9 to #3.
2025-06-30 Most Streamed Tracks - Year 1991 Nothing Else Matters climbs from #6 to #5.
2025-06-21 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #90 to #89.
2025-06-10 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #90 to #89.
2025-05-31 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #98 to #94.
2025-05-31 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #88 to #84.
2025-05-28 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #98 to #97.
2025-05-28 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #88 to #87.
2025-05-21 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #97 to #96.
2025-05-21 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #88 to #87.
2025-05-20 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #98 to #97.
2025-05-17 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #98 to #95.
2025-05-17 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #88 to #86.
2025-05-17 Top Albums CSPC - Year 1998 Garage Inc. climbs from #8 to #6.
2025-05-15 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #99 to #98.
2025-05-15 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #89 to #88.
2025-05-14 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #100 to #99.
2025-05-11 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #89 to #88.
2025-05-09 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #100 to #97.
2025-05-09 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #87 to #84.
2025-05-05 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #97 to #96.
2025-05-05 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #85 to #84.
2025-05-04 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #98 to #97.
2025-05-04 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #86 to #85.
2025-05-02 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #85 to #84.
2025-05-01 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #97 to #95.
2025-05-01 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #87 to #85.
2025-04-30 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #99 to #97.
2025-04-30 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #88 to #87.
2025-04-28 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #99 to #96.
2025-04-28 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #85 to #84.
2025-04-26 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #100 to #96.
2025-04-26 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #85 to #84.
2025-04-25 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #86 to #85.
2025-04-23 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #84 to #83.
2025-04-22 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #99 to #97.
2025-04-22 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #85 to #84.
2025-04-21 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #100 to #99.
2025-04-21 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #88 to #85.
2025-04-18 Most Streamed Artists - AOD Metallica climb from #97 to #95.
2025-04-18 Most Streamed Artists on Spotify Metallica climb from #84 to #83.
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Artist rankings

With 180,019,000 EAS, Metallica rank #18 among the most successful artists of alltime.
With 18,484,000 EAS, Metallica rank #9 among the most successful artists of 1984.
With 20,280,000 EAS, Metallica rank #4 among the most successful artists of 1986.
With 21,511,000 EAS, Metallica rank #2 among the most successful artists of 1988.
With 53,577,000 EAS, Metallica rank #3 among the most successful artists of 1991.
With 14,029,000 EAS, Metallica rank #5 among the most successful artists of 1996.
With 11,593,000 EAS, Metallica rank #8 among the most successful artists of 1997.
With 133,775,000 copies, Metallica rank #27 among the artists with the most pure album sales of all time.
With 40,767,000 units, Metallica rank #48 among the artists with the most digital single sales of all time.
With 15,867,727,106 lead streams on Spotify, Metallica rank #90 among the most streamed artists of all time.
With 31,334,388 followers, Metallica rank #60 among artists with the most followers on Spotify.

Album rankings

With 53,355,000 EAS, Metallica (Black Album) ranks #16 among the most successful albums of all time.
With 17,539,000 EAS, Ride The Lightning ranks #10 among the most successful albums of 1984.
With 20,175,000 EAS, Master Of Puppets ranks #4 among the most successful albums of 1986.
With 21,145,000 EAS, …And Justice For All ranks #2 among the most successful albums of 1988.
With 53,355,000 EAS, Metallica (Black Album) ranks #2 among the most successful albums of 1991.
With 13,808,000 EAS, Load ranks #6 among the most successful albums of 1996.
With 11,994,000 EAS, Reload ranks #9 among the most successful albums of 1997.
With 10,887,000 EAS, Garage Inc. ranks #6 among the most successful albums of 1998.
With 1,667,290,244 streams on Spotify, Ride The Lightning ranks #7 among the most streamed albums of 1984.
With 1,784,000,799 streams on Spotify, Master Of Puppets ranks #4 among the most streamed albums of 1986.
With 1,406,318,649 streams on Spotify, …And Justice For All ranks #3 among the most streamed albums of 1988.
With 5,155,689,158 streams on Spotify, Metallica (Black Album) ranks #2 among the most streamed albums of 1991.
With 1,142,624,363 streams on Spotify, Garage Inc. ranks #8 among the most streamed albums of 1998.

Song rankings

With 17,112,000 EAS, Nothing Else Matters ranks #76 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 16,836,000 EAS, Enter Sandman ranks #80 among the most successful songs of all time.
With 10,543,000 EAS, Master Of Puppets ranks #5 among the most successful songs of 1986.
With 12,314,000 EAS, One ranks #2 among the most successful songs of 1988.
With 17,112,000 EAS, Nothing Else Matters ranks #6 among the most successful songs of 1991.
With 16,836,000 EAS, Enter Sandman ranks #7 among the most successful songs of 1991.
With 1,065,535,433 streams on Spotify, Master Of Puppets ranks #3 among the most streamed tracks of 1986.
With 718,145,787 streams on Spotify, One ranks #4 among the most streamed tracks of 1988.
With 1,776,787,992 streams on Spotify, Enter Sandman ranks #2 among the most streamed tracks of 1991.
With 1,431,222,312 streams on Spotify, Nothing Else Matters ranks #6 among the most streamed tracks of 1991.

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