Metallica's 72 Seasons has bowed at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Album Sales chart dated April 29.
The album recorded the largest sales week for any rock or hard rock album in over three-and-a-half years, according to Billboard.
The record debuted with 134,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending April 20, according to Luminate. It is the eighth No. 1 on Top Album Sales for the band.
72 Seasons marks the group's first original album in nearly seven years following 2016's chart-topping Hardwired… To Self-Destruct.
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