NME — Metallica's ninth studio album has taken the top spot on the US Billboard chart after hitting Number One in the UK earlier this week. more info

MTV.com News — Friday release doesn't hurt sales for band's first album in five years.By Chris Harris Metallica's Death Magnetic Photo: WEA/ Reprise Three short days was all it took for Metallica to outsell every other album on next week's Billboard albu... more info

Yahoo! Music — Reuters - In just a three-day sales window, hard rock band Metallica's first studio album since 2003 debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. pop chart with one of the biggest tallies of the year. more info

Canada.comMETALLICA Opens At US No. 1 Just Shy Of 500K - Sep. 16, 2008Blabbermouth.net - 31 minutes agoBillboard.com reports that METALLICA's Death Magnetic has sold close to a half million copies in just a three-day sales window and will lead The B... more info

BBC News - UK — Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, sings alongside rock bands Metallica and Kings of Leon on a UK TV show. more info

The Daily Mail — Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, joined Metallica for the filming of Jools Holland and Friends in London today. more info

The Daily Mail — Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, joined Metallica for the filming of Jools Holland and Friends in London today. more info

The Independent — "In this room we have two No 1 artists, and the First Lady of France." It wasn't a phrase I recall Jimmy Savile ever using to introduce Top Of The Pops, but then Carla Bruni's predecessors, the various Madames Mitterand, Pompidou, Chirac etc, probabl... more info

Perez Hilton — viewNode("813fe2c0bff84", { player_profile:'vega4', width: 410, height: 315 }); One of our fave singers, Stefanie Heinzmann, has just come out with a new video/single. It's a cover of the Metallica song The Unforgiven. We don't know the original, but... more info

Perez Hilton — Metallica's first album in over five years, Death Magnetic, is projected to be doing fairly well. The record is on track to take the number one slot on the top U.S. album charts this week. Sales data is being released on Wednesday, but according to p... more info