Billboard revealed the milestone via social media yesterday (July 15). The album was published in 1991 and has spent nearly 14 years irregularly on the charts since then.
The accomplishment makes this just the fourth record in history to reach that milestone. The only three albums that have topped ‘The Black Album’ are Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’, which has a total of 990 weeks, Bob Marley’s ‘Legend’, which has 843 weeks, and Journey’s ‘Journey’s Greatest Hits’, which has 813 weeks.
The album included five singles: ‘Enter Sandman’, ‘The Unforgiven’, ‘Nothing Else Matters’, ‘Wherever I May Roam’, and ‘Sad But True’.
In 2021, the record celebrated its 30th anniversary with ‘The Metallica Blacklist’, a sprawling 53-track compilation album that saw a mammoth, genre-crossing list of artists – including Alessia Cara, Royal Blood, Ghost, Rina Sawayama, Miley Cyrus, Sam Fender, St. Vincent, Corey Taylor, Phoebe Bridgers, IDLES, Kamasi Washington, and more – put their own spins on the tracks, often with different takes on the same track.
In 2021, John brought Metallica vocalist James Hetfield to tears by declaring the band’s song ‘Nothing Else Matters’ “one of the best songs ever written”.
It happened after the iconic singer-songwriter appeared on Miley Cyrus’ version of ‘The Metallica Blacklist’ with Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ Chad Smith, WATT, Yo-Yo Ma, and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo.
