Metallica’s ninth studio album, Death Magnetic, remained at Number One on the Billboard album chart for the third straight week, with the disc selling another 132,000 copies since arriving on September 12th. Although sales figures released on Wednesday (October 1st) indicated a 61 percent drop from the previous week, the CD has still racked up total sales of 959,000 copies. Death Magnetic is also only the second album of 2008 to top the chart for three straight weeks, following Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through The Static.

The week’s other major rock debut on the Billboard chart was Kings of Leon’s Only By The Night, which entered the chart at Number Four with 74,000 copies sold, both career bests for the Southern rockers.

Total album sales for the week were down nearly seven percent from last week and almost 29 percent from the same period last year.

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