Metallica`s self-titled album aka `Black` album has sold just 3000 more units than Shania Twain`s `Come On Over` to become the biggest selling album of the SoundScan era.
‘Black’ has now sold 15,490,000 units since 1991 according to Nielsen SoundScan. ‘Come On Over’ has sold 15,487,000.With just two more weeks of sales figures to go until the end of the first decade of the 21st Century, Shania or her label Universal could easily go out and buy up a few thousand copies to end the decade in front. Will they?
Metallica’s ‘Black’ has on August 13, 1991. Shania Twain ‘Come On Over’ was released on November 4, 1987. SoundScan started tracking sales on March 1, 1991.
