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Metallica's 'Death' nears half-million mark


September 16, 2008 In just a three-day sales window, Metallica's "Death Magnetic" skates close to the half million mark and will lead the Billboard 200 when Nielsen SoundScan releases its charts Wednesday morning. The band's first studio album since 2003 moved 490,000 copies in its abbreviated frame, scheduled off-cycle on a Friday to accommodate a worldwide release date. The total for Metallica's first Warner Bros. album after spending its career with Elektra outdistances the opening sum of its last studio set, "St. Anger," which sold 418,000 copies in a similarly shorter-than-normal window.

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