billboard.com - 9/16/2008
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A title missing from last week's Nielsen SoundScan Building charts is destined to be the next No. 1 on The Billboard 200, as Metallica's new "Death Magnetic" has a shot at a half-million copy opener.
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Metallica’s Death Magnetic could reach 500,000 in first week sales
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... , have made the album a hot commodity. Metallica's last album, St. Anger , also had a short week for it s first Billboard numbers, and moved 419,000 in its first three days, and 780,000 copies in its first full week. If Death Magnetic does hit number one, it will be Metallica s fifth album to debut at number one on Billboard. [ Billboard ]
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