'Black' album still crapping on the competition 20 years on
Since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking album sales in May 1991 Metallica have sold enough records to actually create a clone of Lars that can play the drums and not shoot off at the mouth every five minutes, but it turns out they spent it on hair plugs and dye.
The band who took on Napster and won everything bar the PR battle is still shifting an incredible amount of it's 1991 album and as of 2009 has surpassed even bandy legged transvestite Shania Twain to become the best selling LP of the Sound Scan era. To date, the black album has sold 15,620,000 copies, eclipsing Twain's 'Come On Over' total of 15,499,000.
The Nielsen SoundScan system began compiling sales electronically more than 18 years ago on a weekly basis, providing more accurate sales figures that form the basis for the Billboard music charts.
Top Ten Selling Artists Of SoundScan Era
(based on album sales from 1991 to January 2, 2011)
01. GARTH BROOKS (68,513,000)
02. THE BEATLES (62,066,000)
03. MARIAH CAREY (53,185,000)
04. METALLICA (52,672,000)
05. CELINE DION (51,162,000)
06. GEORGE STRAIT (42,396,000)
07. EMINEM (39,643,000)
08. TIM MCGRAW (39,396,000)
09. ALAN JACKSON (38,275,000)
10. PINK FLOYD (36,429,000)
Top Ten Selling Albums Of SoundScan Era
(1991 - January 2, 2011):
01. "Metallica" - METALLICA (15,620,000)
02. "Come On Over" - SHANIA TWAIN (15,499,000)
03. "Jagged Little Pill" - ALANIS MORISSETTE (14,673,000)
04. "Millennium" - BACKSTREET BOYS (12,115,000)
05. "Bodyguard" soundtrack - Various Artists (11,823,000)
06. "Supernatural" - SANTANA (11,709,000)
07. "Beatles 1" - THE BEATLES (11,703,000)
08. "Human Clay" - CREED (11,563,000)
09. "No Strings Attached" - 'N SYNC (11,117,000)
10." Falling Into You" - CELINE DION (10,785,000)
All in all not a bad bit of work for the band. This won't shut their detractors up who will tell you that is was all downhill after 'And Justice For All...' in fact it probably highlights the exact point and accusations of selling out that have been thrown at them ever since they roped in Bob 'Let's Clean It Up A Bit' Rock and had an unequivocal amount of success.
Still to have moved up the chart in the past couple of years shows that someone out there is still buying albums and for all the haters you can laugh harder when you have nearly 16 million US sales in your back pocket.
Not Even A Redneck Would Vote For Sarah Palin
Ted f**king Nugent...
If you don't have the faintest idea who fret wanking, redneck, bigot Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is, then you are probably slightly lucky.
Despite being born with mad skills on the guitar Theodore was also clearly born with a screw loose as he has become a sort of guitar wielding Bear Grills - only, in Ted's mind, the TV survivalist is probably a pussy because he doesn't use guns.
He has endured a lengthy and pretty fucking successful solo career considering, notching up 30m album sales and touring non stop since 1958. He was also in The Armboy Dukes, as well as forming supergroup The Damn Yankees and even appearing on Supergroup with Sebastian Bach and Scott 'Not' Ian.
He is well known for his love of hunting and once took to the stage on the back of a buffalo, no doubt shortly before killing it and serving it as the bands rider.
Recently the draft dodging, statutory rapist took time out from gay bashing to appear on Wednesday, January 5th's edition of the "Anderson Cooper 360°" show, to give his opinion of Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor who was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008.
In Nugent's bizarrely non-drug addled mind he gushed,
"[Palin's] coming from the street, she's coming from the we-the-people rank-and-file, she makes sense when she talks, she says all the right things, she's sincere, she's knowledgeable, she's articulate, she's damn good-looking, plus she kills moose. How can you go wrong?!"
Maybe he's confusing the real thing with 'Who's Nailin' Paylin?' as the GILF's stock has fallen pretty low since 2008 through a series of outlandishly bizarre statements, although maybe the idea of a woman who would piss off those liberal, animal loving, commie fags as much as he does is appealing no matter how low her breast hang when she takes her bra off.
However, even the 6 times married father of seven (all from different women) had to come back to reality when Cooper pressed the rocker on whether Palin would make a good president,
"It's too early to tell," Ted replied. "Right now, if we had a vote, I couldn't vote for Sarah Palin. And I love her. I love her madly, and I respect her."
If I was Palin I'd hung up my political shoes now. Christ if a guy who has been had up on concealed weapons charges, adopted a 17 year old as his daughter until she was old to marry and believes fags should burn won't vote for you, despite 'respecting' you, what chance have you got with the less ultra conservative people of America?
Anyway rant over - I have received feedback that the comments section didn't work properly and this should now been taken care of...
I shall be returning more historical/less gossip magaziney type business next time I promise!
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