Metallica among best sellers of SoundScan era

Albums by Metallica and Creed are two of the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. during the SoundScan era, which began in 1991 when the company began collecting accurate computerized sales figures from music retailers. Metallica's self-titled black album, released that year, is the Number Two best-selling disc with just over 15 million copies sold and 258,000 moved in 2007 alone. Metallica is less than 375,000 copies behind the top-selling entry, Shania Twain's Come On Over, and could surpass it by 2009.

Creed's second effort, Human Clay, made Number Seven on the list with more than 11,500,000 copies sold.

The complete list as of the end of 2007 is:
1. Shania Twain - Come On Over (15,449,000)
2. Metallica - Metallica (15,077,000)
3. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (14,557,000)
4. Backstreet Boy - Millennium (12,099,000)
5. Various Artists - The Bodyguard soundtrack (11,798,000)
6. Santana - Supernatural (11,643,000)
7. Creed - Human Clay (11,504,000)
8. N'Sync - No Strings Attached (11,104,000)
9. The Beatles - The Beatles 1 (11,097,000)
10. Celine Dion - Falling Into You (10,768,000)
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