I would've thought it'd be U2 or the Rolling Stones, but with $1.4bn lifetime ticket sales it's the band who haven't recorded anything decent since 1991, when they recorded their 5th-best album...
Also loved the fact thrown in that the 2 biggest 'apparel sellers' (items of clothing sold) worldwide are NYC baseball caps and ... Metallica tee-shirts. Fond memories of the endlessly controversy-causing Metal up... tee from back in the day before that 5th album dropped, ripped to shreds at a Belfast death metal mini-festival!
Dennis Arfa, an agent at Artist Group International, feels Metallica can rightfully lay claim being the "biggest band in the world." He explained, "Not only are they a stadium attraction, but they sell out in secondary and tertiary markets where you wouldn’t see many artists playing at all. The fact they can do the type of business they do all over the world – the two biggest apparel pieces in the world are a Yankees hat and a Metallica T-shirt. This isn’t a 10-year phenomenon, this is a stadium band since the mid-’90s and they have continued to win on the biggest levels, with $6 million-plus grosses."
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