Metallica’s self-titled album, known as ‘The Black Album’, has achieved a new milestone by spending a total of 750 weeks on the Billboard 200 charts. The album was initially released in 1991 and has been sporadically present on the charts for over 14 years. On July 15, Billboard confirmed the achievement on social media.
The achievement marks only the fourth album to achieve this feat in history. The other albums that have surpassed ‘The Black Album’ are Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’, which has spent a total of 990 weeks on the charts, Bob Marley’s ‘Legend’, which has spent 843 weeks, and Journey’s ‘Journey’s Greatest Hits’, which has spent 813 weeks.
The album featured five singles: ‘Enter Sandman’, ‘The Unforgiven’, ‘Nothing Else Matters’, ‘Wherever I May Roam’, and ‘Sad But True’. The record celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2021 with ‘The Metallica Blacklist’, a 53-track album featuring a mammoth list of artists from various genres such as Alessia Cara, Royal Blood, Ghost, Rina Sawayama, Miley Cyrus, Sam Fender, St. Vincent, Corey Taylor, Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, Kamasi Washington, and more. They put their own spins on the tracks with different takes on the same track.
In 2021, Metallica frontman James Hetfield was moved to tears by Elton John, who called the band’s song ‘Nothing Else Matters’ “one of the best songs ever written”. This happened after the legendary singer-songwriter featured on Miley Cyrus’s cover of the single for ‘The Metallica Blacklist’ along with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, WATT, Yo-Yo Ma, and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo
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