The news that Lou Reed and Metallica were collaborating on the new album, Lulu, was met with a lot of raised eyebrows from critics and fans of both artists.
Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu
That skepticism has been confirmed with first week figures for the album. According to Hits Daily Double, Lulu will sell around 13,250 copies (some industry sources are saying 15,000) copies in its first week, good enough to come in in the mid-30’s on the Billboard Album chart. For comparison, Metallica’s last album, Death Magnetic, sold 490,000 in its first three days of release.
It’s pretty much the same around the world where the only top ten that the album made was in Sweden where it hit number 9 and it just missed in Norway where it was number 11. In Australia it debuted at 33 and in Britain at 36.
For Metallica, you have to go all the way back to 1986’s Kill ‘Em All (peaked at 120) to find a studio album that did this poorly. On the other hand, it’s a good showing for Reed.
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