As of December 2009, Metallica is the fourth best-selling music artist since the SoundScan era began tracking sales on May 25, 1991, selling a total of 52,672,000 albums in the United States alone.
Metallica sold more records than the records sold by Prince.
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Metallica by a land slide... Dylan sold an estimated 43million records while Metallica have sold well over 110millions.
Metallica has actually sold more records than Van Morrison. Of course, Van has about 20 years longer in the business than Metallica, but Van's music never reached as many people as Metallica's.
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Metallica's self-titled album is the highest selling record.
Unfortunately, U2 sold more records than Metallica, which doesn't make any sense whatsoever. U2 is a sell-out band who were only in it for the money; Metallica actually made a difference with their music by actually playing their instruments properly.
as of Death Magnetic back in 2008 they had sold well over 100 million
Over 100 million records..
Metallica is much more popular than Radiohead. Metallica sold more records, played in more countries, and received more radio play. Radiohead are generally a cult band that not everyone would get into.
Metallica is the most succsesful thrash metal band of all times.They have sold over 100 million records worldwide and their selftitled album Metallica is the best selled metall album ever. Hope i helped you
Bruce Springsteen, definitely. Sure, Metallica brought heavy metal to the masses; but Springsteen's reaches more people of different ages than Metallica's music ever could.