Metallica surpasses another milestone in their storied career! “Master of Puppets” the title track from their Thrash Metal masterpiece album of the same name, has become the band’s third song to surpass 1 Billion streams on Spotify, following “Enter Sandman” (1.65B)  and Nothing Else Matters” (1.34B) in the Spotify Billions Club playlist. This was reported by industry expert Ryan J. Downey’s Substack Stream and Destroy and Official Chart Data service. According to Downey, Metallica brought its catalog to Spotify on December 06, 2012 The song got a second life in the last few years with it featuring in the popular Netflix show Stranger Things, which caused it to go viral and mint a new generation of Metallica fans.

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