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Will Ferrell and Chad Smith have chosen a target for their next drum-off: Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. -
7 Artists Whose Top Selling Album Isn't Their Best: Springsteen, Bowie, and more
With the news of Metallica's "Black Album" breaking the 16 million mark in sales, by far its most successful album, I began looking into the sales figures of other huge artists. What I found was that in many cases, an artist's top selling album isn't necessarily its best. Here are seven artists where that's precisely the case, starting with the band that inspired this list... -
Metallica's 'The Black Album' Becomes The Highest Selling Album Of The Past 25 Years
Curious what album has sold the most copies over the last quarter-century? According to Billboard, Metallica's 1991 effort, The Black Album, recently surpassed the 16-million copies sold mark, making them the first band to do so since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. The album's cumulative total currently sits at 16,002,000 copies sold. -
5 Bands Whose Members Never Went Solo: Metallica, Beastie Boys, and more
In previous articles for Music Times, I've written about musicians who went solo pointlessly, as well as successful musicians who never went solo at all. Today, I'm looking into the very rare case of bands whose members have never released a single solo album. It's not nearly as common as you would think. -
7 Pairs Of Albums With The Same Title: Which Is Better?
A while back, I wrote an article comparing songs that happen to have the same title. Though two songs sharing the same title is fairly common (I could rewrite that list many times over with new songs), two albums sharing a title doesn't happen nearly as much. Let's unfairly compare some albums whose only similarities are their titles. -
Nick Cave, Tyler The Creator and Katy Perry cover American classic 'Daisy Bell' for Mark Ryden's charity album
Painter Mark Ryden has commissioned various performers to record their own covers of American classic pop song "Daisy Bell (A Bicycle for Two)" for his art exhibit The Gay 90's: West. -
7 Achingly Beautiful Songs By Metal Bands: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and more
Heavy metal is a lot of things to a lot of people: brutal, exhilarating, cathartic, but "beautiful" isn't really one of the first words to come to mind when describing a metal song. This doesn't mean that metal bands are incapable of writing beautiful songs, though. Here are seven incredibly beautiful songs written by metal bands. -
Metallica performs new song, 'The Lords of Summer,' in Colombia [WATCH]
Last night, Metallica unveiled their first new song in half a decade during their first show of 2014 in Bogota, Colombia. The new track titled "The Lords of Summer" is the first piece of new music since 2012's Beyond Magnetic EP (the outtakes from 2008's Death Magnetic). -
Some Kind of Monster: Metallica and Lang Lang (Langtallica?) Rehearse "One" for the 2014 Grammys
Metallica is a band that likes the video camera. A lot. But for a band who clearly over-documents (and has a new studio album forthcoming), footage of their practice sessions has proved surprisingly scarce. Until now... -
Metallica's James Hetfield confirms Orion Fest will not happen again
If you planned on heading out to Metallica's next incarnation of the Orion Fest, we've got some bad news: Although the band suggested that it would continue the festival during 2015 after taking 2014 off, vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield said in an interview Thursday that the festival wouldn't be happening again. -
WATCH: Metallica and Lang Lang Dominate All Other Grammy Performers with "One"
A more touching spectacle took place during the in memoriam segment--initiated by the first few bars of Lang Lang's Tchaik--despite misspelling Corey Monteith's name and excluding other revered names. -
Daft Punk, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar see huge upticks in Spotify streams following Grammys
Album and download sales are down. Everyone knows this. The number of viewers taking on the Grammys even year continues to rise however, most likely because they're on television, and the populace just can't handle things they can't see. Either way, musicians that are already pretty popular from a musical perspective see huge increases in activity following The Grammys' broadcast, at least according to numbers released by Spotify.
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