Our friends over at Metal Insider have put together a
list of the best-selling rock and metal albums of 2016. You may or may not be surprised, but
Metallica (old and new) dominates the list. You can have a look below. (Note: we've removed a few from the original list, which don't really qualify as hard rock).
Metallica Hardwired… To Self Destruct (Blackened Recordings)
516,000 sold
Disturbed Immortalized (Reprise)
298,000 sold
Metallica Metallica (Blackened Recordings)
267,500 sold
Metallica Master of Puppets (Blackened Recordings)
163,000 sold
Metallica …And Justice For All (Blackened Recordings)
155,000 sold
Metallica Ride the Lightning (Blackened Recordings)
153,000 sold
Megadeth Dystopia (Tradecraft/uME)
148,000 sold
Five Finger Death Punch Got Your Six (Prospect Park)
146,500 sold
Avenged Sevenfold The Stage (Capitol)
144,000 sold
Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits (Interscope/Geffen)
138,000 sold
Deftones Gore (Reprise)
133,000 sold
Volbeat Seal the Deal & Lets Boogie (Republic)
123,000 sold
AC/DC Back in Black (Columbia)
117,000 sold
Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction (Interscope/Geffen)
115,000 sold
Nirvana Nevermind (Interscope/DGC)
114,000 sold
Shinedown Threat to Survival (Atlantic)
110,000 sold
Pierce the Veil Misadventures (Fearless)
105,000 sold
Metallica Kill 'em All (Blackened Recordings)
104,000 sold
A Day To Remember Bad Vibrations (ADTR)
102,000 sold
Korn The Serenity of Suffering (Roadrunner)
100,000 sold