What Metallica song got closest to reaching No. 1? To date, Metallica has released 16 songs that reached the Billboard Hot 100. Of these, seven reached the top 40: “The Day That Never Comes,” “One,” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. DELHI, INDIA - OCTOBER 28: Kirk Hammett (L), Lars Ulrich (CL), ...

This week, Metallica couldn't quite get over Godsmack for the No. 1 position on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. Godsmack's "Surrender," released Sept. 28 and still at the top of that chart ...

Breaking records is nothing new for Metallica. Metal's biggest band has accomplished another impressive feat, becoming the first band to have a No. 1 song on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs airplay ...

Metallica scores its sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with the arrival of 'Hardwired… to Self-Destruct,' while Bruno Mars and Miranda Lambert's latest albums debut at Nos. 2 and 3. By ...

1.6 million – that’s the number of attendees that came to watch Metallica's juggernaut of a concert in Moscow, in 1991. The Soviet Union was in crisis. A month before Metallica's show, a group of ...

Metallica pushes 2-1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs radio airplay chart (dated Oct. 8) with "Hardwired," the lead single from the band's album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, due Nov. 18. By Kevin ...