Metallica Still Top US Sales

Metallica’s 1991 "Black" album is still the biggest selling album in the US since 1991.

The album, which took the top spot last year ahead of Shania Twain's Come On Over and this year it has retained its hold over the country singer's 1997 album and has sold an incredible 15,620,000 copies in its 19 years.

Remarkably it sold 120,000 copies in the US during 2010 (in the UK that figure would have put them in the top 100 in terms of albums sales over the year).

Here’s the Top Ten US albums since 1991:

1. Metallica - Metallica (15,620,000)
2. Shania Twain - Come On Over (15,487,000)
3. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (14,642,000)
4. Backstreet Boys - Millennium (12,109,000)
5. Various artists – The Bodyguard soundtrack (11,815,000)
6. Santana - Supernatural (11,687,000)
7. The Beatles - 1 (11,584,000)
8. Creed - Human Clay (11,547,000)
9. N Sync - No Strings Attached (11,113,000)
10. Celine Dion - Falling Into You (10,781,000)

(Gibson)