After opening at No.1 last week in Belgium (both Flanders and Wallonia), Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Sweden, Metallica's 10th studio album, Hardwired...To Self Destruct continues to impress, adding Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Poland, Switzerland and the USA to bring to 18 the number of countries in which it has topped the chart. It is also new on the chart in Croatia (No.2), Spain (No.2) and Greece (No.3).

No.1 in the ...