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Metallica peaked at No. 3 on the Shazam Global Chart with "Master of Puppets", spending 10 days in the Top 10.
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The highest position a song reached on the Shazam Global Chart.
The total number of days a song spent in the Top 10 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
The date a song first entered the Top 10 of the Shazam Global Chart.
Metallica
#310Jul 2, 2022
"Master of Puppets" by Metallica climbed to No. 3 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 10 day(s) in the Top 10.
Released
1986Total Shazams
4M
Days in Top 10
10The total number of days a song spent in the Top 10 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 10 Debut
Jul 2, 2022"Master of Puppets" by Metallica climbed to No. 3 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 10 day(s) in the Top 10.
Released
1986Total Shazams
4M
Days in Top 10
10The total number of days a song spent in the Top 10 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 10 Debut
Jul 2, 2022Metallica's Popular Music Videos
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About Metallica
The members of Metallica didn’t just help invent heavy metal; they evolved with it. Formed in 1981 when a “dorky, disenfranchised” teenager in Southern California—Lars Ulrich, in his own words—placed a classified ad name-checking Iron Maiden and Diamond Head, the band debuted in 1983 with Kill ’Em All and pioneered the synthesis of punk and New Wave of British Heavy Metal we now call thrash. Having moved to the Bay Area in the early ’80s to court bassist Cliff Burton, the group—Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett, guitarist-vocalist James Hetfield, and Burton—went on to fashion metal into an art form, eschewing the glam appeal of hair metal for ultra-serious, progressively complex song-suites that explored subjects like suicide, political corruption, and the psychological horror of war.
“We were asked, ‘What was Plan B?’” Hetfield told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe when looking back at their early days. “It’s like, ‘Well, Plan B was making Plan A work.’ As simple as that. There was no other plan: It was, ‘We’re going to do this. If it doesn’t work out, then whatever happens, happens.’ But honestly, that’s what happened throughout our careers. We’d let the challenges come to us, and then write about them, use them as what they’re supposed to be, which is experiencing life.”
Burton was killed in a bus accident in late 1986 and replaced by Jason Newsted for 1988’s epochal … And Justice for All. Even as the band became a global phenomenon in the wake of its 1991 self-titled album, Metallica remained defiantly on its own path, dabbling in Southern rock (1996’s Load), high-concept dirges (2011’s divisive Lou Reed collaboration Lulu), stripped-down hardcore (2003’s St. Anger), and orchestral live albums (1999’s S&M). This path also circles back to the roots. After 2008’s Death Magnetic updated early Metallica angst for the thrash revival of the 2000s, the Duffer Brothers’ use of “Master of Puppets” in Season 4 of Stranger Things made the ’80s anthem go viral in 2022. This set the stage for the following year’s 72 Seasons, an epic song cycle about youth that reinvents the rawness of the music that had initially inspired Metallica. Thus, its story is, in essence, the story of metal itself: a push-pull of simplicity and complexity that continually challenges our understanding of fast and loud.
Musical InfluencesMetallica's musical influences include Queen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and more.
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