One weekend, nearly half a million sold.
Those are the results for Metallica's "Death Magnetic," which Warner Bros. released Friday.
In three days the album sold 490,000 copies in the U.S., Billboard reported, quoting stats from Nielsen SoundScan. Album was released on a Friday to accommodate a worldwide release date.
Metallica's last studio effort, "St. Anger," which sold 418,000 copies in its first sales period, which was also shorter than usual.
Metallica's biggest week ever came in 1996 when "Load" sold 680,000 copies in its first stanza.