What a scary looking list.

the world's a shitty place

NOT THE PUSSY ONES THAT COOKIE CUT THE 80s TO DEATH ...

I AM TALKING SOME FUCKING JZZY PEARL...

FUCK NU-METAL

LEARN THE LAW YOU WALLET WEARIN PUNKS....

LIKE RONNIE JAMES DIO SAID ="WE ROCK"

Hail 80s!!!!

MASHUGGARH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AXL=GOD

I'd like to drink with you sometime, but first, you need to get your head out of Axl's rear. These are the bands that set the standard, indeed. Meshuggah blows ass!!!!!!!!!

BANDS LIKE THIS KILLED THE WHOLE 80s SCENE :

FIREHOUSE
WARRANT
TRIXTER
DANGER DANGER
WINGER

HAVE A DRINK ON ME THOUGH .

I LIKE ALL THOSE BANDS ABOVE ....

DIDN'T CARE FOR:
FIREHOUSE
WARRANT
TRIXTER
DANGER DANGER
WINGER
*but i like them better than rap or rap metal or nu-metal!!!

I REALLY LOVED
(and still to this day-
I still love them):

GUNS N' ROSES
MÖTLEY CRÜE
SKID ROW
ALICE COOPER
W.A.S.P
TWISTED SISTER
FASTER PUSSYCAT
LOVE/HATE

n case you didnt read, def leppard may have sold that many, but soundscan started in may 11, this is a total selling of cds since that dats, so sorry, def leppard doesnt own shit.....not compared to metallica, damn, 44 mill? and lars is bitching about people downloading? fucking greedy lil midget.

may 1991, bah!

I'm glad they updated 'cause I almost puked when Firehouse made the top ten.

Say. Kiss my butt. Maybe if we hold are breath...... the list will change........LOL Good luck makers of the post.

All the bands that people bitched about not being on the list when this was first reported are now there. The Trans-am driving, oddly effeminate, Jovan Musk for Men wearing, shower-drain cloggers at Metal Sludge must read Blabbermouth, eh?

WTF, WHERE THE HELL IS JUDAS PRIEST!? You mean to tell me that Judas Priest has sold less than 25,000 copies since May of 1991...that is so bullshit.

Another thing that pisses me off is Maiden, Pantera, Megadeth, and Queensryche combined don't equal Metallica. That to me is very disturbing. Not to bash Metallica, I'm still a fan of their old stuff, but come on, the other bands are better.

That was funny as shit, dude. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! And CKess, I was gonna say the same thing, man....where the FUCK is Judas Priest!??! Hey WAR N' KFC aka T-Boner, bro, I was a HUGE supported of Axl up until Dec. 6, 2002, when he screwed Philly. I was there in the 7th row during that debacle. He's a schmuck and always will be a schmuck. Tracii Guns was right.

What A great list and look not one shitty death metal band. The only people that buy that shit are cookie monster and his sesame street friends. I bet Pretty Boy Floyd has sold more records then Cannibal Corpse.

Doubt that, but it's an entertaining comment, nonetheless. I've seen CC and PBF live, so that should give you an idea of how open-minded I am towards heavy music.

Fuckin' sad Maiden and Megadeth aren't in the top 10.

Queensryche is up there so im happy. and for those dissing Winger listen to the "Pull" album from 93 and tell me its not one of the best albums out there

Mötley Crüe and Poison have sold more than Iron Maiden? What a world...

this is sold since may 1991.....read the damn thing...

can any of you put the entire picture together?
1) These are sales since may 1991- many of these groups put out albums prior to that going back to the1970s .(although I am curious to see what the unofficial non nielsen numbers would be)
2. the title for this was hard rock ( which obviously crosses into metal) so this would leave off the more "metal " groups
3. Those of you slagging death/extreme metal- check out sales of cradle of filth and they would make the above list
4. they recently posted the following in december for death metal sales and the top ten bands would all make the above list knocking out Tuff and some others
It's Official: CANNIBAL CORPSE Are The Top-Selling Death Metal Band Of The SoundScan Era - Nov. 17, 2003

CANNIBAL CORPSE have sold more albums in the U.S. during the SoundScan era than any other death metal band, according to the figures obtained by
CANNIBAL CORPSE: 558,929
DEICIDE: 481,131
MORBID ANGEL: 445,147
SIX FEET UNDER: 370,660
OBITUARY: 368,616
DEATH: 368,184
NAPALM DEATH: 367,654
CARCASS: 220,734
ENTOMBED: 198,764

The top-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era are as follows:

MORBID ANGEL – "Covenant" (1993): 127,154
DEICIDE – "Deicide" (1990): 110,719*
DEICIDE – "Legion" (1992): 103,544
OBITUARY – "The End Complete" (1992): 103,378
CANNIBAL CORPSE – "The Bleeding" (1994): 98,319



5.and judas priest must not qualify for hard rock- since even the two recent cds sold about 150-200,000 combined.

5. bands like mudvayne, disturbed, godsmack all do not qualify for this list either.
6. Type o Negative would also make the list.

7.Question- Can nielsen combine the lists to show all hard rock/ metal/ black/death/nu-metal sales to eput things into perspective?

How come bands like RATT, BRITNY FOX, FIREHOUSE, DOKKEN and L.A. GUNS are on the list but not The Scorpions? Surely they must have sold more records than WHITE LION, ENUFF Z'NUFF and BANG TANGO? (By the way, who the fuck are they?)

I know that The Scorpions sucks these days (well, they haven't done anything right since ......82-83) but still!! RATT? LA GUNS? Fucking PUB Bands who don't know how to write decent music!!

Like I said, I'm no Scorpions fan but I heard that they were huge in your country; over there! Well, guess not!