brown #
= weekly rock chart peak
blue #
= pop chart peak
| 1 | Seek & Destroy | 1983 |  |
| 2 | Creeping Death | Nov 1984 | |
| 3 | For Whom The Bell Tolls | 1984 | |
| 4 | Fade To Black | 1985 | |
| 5 | Battery | 1986 | |
| 6 | Master Of Puppets | 1986 | |
| 7 | Welcome Home (Sanitarium) | 1986 | |
| 8 | One | 12 | Apr 1989 | |
| 9 | Enter Sandman | 1 | Oct 1991 | |
| 10 | Don't Tread On Me | 1991 | |
| 11 | The Unforgiven | 4 | Jan 1992 | |
| 12 | Nothing Else Matters | 3 | 22 | May 1992 | |
| 13 | Wherever I May Roam | 7 | Aug 1992 | |
| 14 | Sad But True | 3 | Jan 1993 | |
| 15 | Until It Sleeps | 1 | Jun 1996 | |
| 16 | Ain't My Bitch | 26 | Aug 1996 | |
| 17 | Hero Of The Day | 1 | Oct 1996 | |
| 18 | Mama Said | Dec 1996 | |
| 19 | King Nothing | 4 | Feb 1997 | |
| 20 | Bleeding Me | 5 | Jul 1997 | |
| 21 | The Memory Remains | 3 | Dec 1997 | |
| 22 | The Unforgiven II | 1 | May 1998 | |
| 23 | Fuel | 23 | May 1998 | |
| 24 | Better Than You | 6 | Sep 1998 | |
| 25 | Turn The Page | 1 | Dec 1998 | |
| 26 | Whiskey In The Jar | 12 | Feb 1999 | |
| 27 | Die, Die My Darling | Jul 1999 | |
| 28 | No Leaf Clover | 1 | Dec 1999 | |
| 29 | I Disappear | 3 | May 2000 | |
| 30 | St. Anger | 4 | Jul 2003 | |
| 31 | Frantic | 20 | Aug 2003 | |
| 32 | The Unnamed Feeling | 26 | Jan 2004 | |
| 33 | Some Kind Of Monster | 26 | Jul 2004 | |
| 34 | The Ecstasy Of Gold | Apr 2007 | |
| 35 | Remember Tomorrow | Aug 2008 | |
| 36 | My Apocalypse | Sep 2008 | |
| 37 | The Day That Never Comes | 1 | Sep 2008 | |
| 38 | Cyanide | 6 | Feb 2009 | |
| 39 | All Nightmare Long | 23 | Jun 2009 | |
| 40 | Broken, Beat & Scarred | Dec 2009 | |
| 41 | The View | Oct 2011 | |
| Lou Reed & Metallica |
| 42 | Hate Train | Mar 2012 | |
| 43 | When A Blind Man Cries | Sep 2012 | |
| 44 | Am I Evil? | Oct 2013 | |
| 45 | Ronnie Rising Medley | Apr 2014 | |
| Metallica Featuring A Light In The Black, Tarot Woman, Stargazer & Kill The King |
| 46 | Lords Of Summer | Jun 2014 | |
| 47 | Hardwired | Oct 2016 | |
| 48 | Moth Into Flame | Nov 2016 | |
| 49 | Atlas, Rise! | Feb 2017 | |
| 50 | Now That We're Dead | Jul 2017 | |
| 51 | Spit Out The Bone | Dec 2017 | |