Metallica has officially made a Mount Rushmore!
Now to be clear, nobody carved the four faces of the members of the band into a mountain, but the world's biggest Metal band has achieved something that only three other music acts have achieved in modern music history.
Metallica's self-titled album, which we all call The Black Album is the fourth album ever to spend a total of 750 weeks on the Billboard 200, which is a feat so rare that only Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, Bob Marley and The Wailers compilation album Legend, and Journey's Greatest Hits have accomplished it. The 1991 hit is the youngest album to reach the milestone, as the album peaked at No. 1 on Aug. 31, 1991, and it still sits on the charts at No. 178, 33 years after its release.
The album transformed the band and metal music as a whole, becoming a mainstream hit getting massive radio airplay at a time when the only metal bands to really do so were Hair Bands. The Black Album, was a step for Metallica out of the confinement of Thrash Metal and into the very mainstream metal that inspired them to form the band in the first place. The album sold over 30 million copies worldwide, and became their first No. 1 after a decade of getting on the charts with little to no radio airplay.
The album spawned some of Metallica's biggest hits including their biggest with "Enter Sandman" and the song that Elton John called one of the best songs ever written "Nothing Else Matters". Metallica's already broken many records in their storied career, but this milestone fully establishes them as rock gods that stand on high above all that strive below to reach their heights.