On the list below you can check out which albums sold the most copies in the States in 2016. Note this doesn’t concern 2016 releases but every rock and metal album no matter when it was released. One band has six(!) albums on that list. Can you guess which?

1.    Metallica, Hardwired… To Self Destruct (Blackened Recordings) 516,000 sold
2.    Disturbed, Immortalized (Reprise) 298,000 sold
3.    Metallica, Metallica (Blackened Recordings) 267,500 sold
4.    Bon Jovi, This House Is Nor For Sale (Island) 174,000 sold
5.    Journey, Greatest Hits (Columbia)  169,000 sold
6.    Metallica, Master of Puppets (Blackened Recordings)  163,000 sold
7.    Metallica, …And Justice For All (Blackened Recordings) 155,000 sold
8.    Metallica, Ride the Lightning (Blackened Recordings) 153,000 sold
9.    Megadeth, Dystopia (Tradecraft/uME) 148,000 sold
10.    Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six (Prospect Park) 146,500 sold
11.    Avenged Sevenfold, The Stage (Capitol) 144,000 sold
12.    Guns N’ Roses, Greatest Hits (Interscope/Geffen) 138,000 sold
13.    Deftones, Gore (Reprise) 133,000 sold
14.    Skillet, Unleashed (Atlantic) 123,500 sold
15.    Volbeat, Seal the Deal & Lets Boogie (Republic) 123,000 sold
16.    AC/DC, Back in Black (Columbia) 117,000 sold
17.    Guns N’ Roses, Appetite For Destruction (Interscope/Geffen) 115,000 sold
18.    Nirvana, Nevermind (Interscope/DGC) 114,000 sold
19.    Trans-Siberian Orchestra, The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (Atlantic) 113,000 sold
20.    Shinedown, Threat to Survival (Atlantic) 110,000 sold
21.    Pierce the Veil, Misadventures (Fearless) 105,000 sold
22.    Metallica, Kill ’em All (Blackened Recordings) 104,000 sold
23.    A Day To Remember, Bad Vibrations (ADTR) 102,000 sold
24.    Korn, The Serenity of Suffering (Roadrunner) 100,000 sold
25.    Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill (Def Jam) 99,000 sold