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In most Latin America Iron Maiden are bigger than Metallica, above all in Brazil. In Argentina Metallica is bigger counting casual fans who go to the concert because they are a famous band, but among the metal public Maiden is bigger.

It wouldn't surprise me if Maiden had sold more than Metallica taking out the US. It is known that Metallica is a band that is huge in the US and have sold a great deal of the records there whereas Maiden is much more distributed worldwide. Besides, maybe Metallica also plays bigger venus...

AC/DC worldwide 200 million US 71 million GNR Worldwide 100 million US 48 million Kiss Worldwide 75 million US 21 million Just to know the top 5 artists with more sales in the US are: The Beatles 212 million Elvis Presley 199 million Rihanna 188 million Eminem 163 million Taylor Swift 159...

Pretty bad considering that Iron Maiden would be second worldwide among those bands. Estimates world wide are: Metallica 130 million Iron Maiden 100 million Black Sabbath 70 million Ozzy Osbourne 55 million Judas Priest 50 million Dio 47 million Megadeth 40 million Pantera 40 million Just...

Alexander the Great is overrated because it has never been played, it is a great tune but far from the masterpiece many fans say it is. But the fact it has never been played is the reason we always discuss about the song.

Why is it like that though? Is there something in their music or lyrics that doesn't go well with the american mainstream public? Or is it just that they didn't care about appearing on tv as other uses said on this thread? I admit I find the case of Iron Maiden with the american public...

1- Powerslave 2- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 3- Piece of Mind 4- Somewhere in Time 5- Brave New World 6- The Number of the Beast 7- The Book of Souls 8- A Matter of Life and Death 9- Killers 10- Dance of Death 11- The X Factor 12- Iron Maiden 13- The Final Frontier 14- Fear of the Dark 15- No...

The ballad part of Empire of the Clouds, before the instrumental is one of my favourite Maiden moments and Bruce does an amazing performance. But the instrumental part, when the song gets heavier, is just too repetitive and I think the transition from ballad to instrumental is too abrupt and...

Because it would have been a terrible mistake. I love the first two Di'Anno albums but that's it, the guy was no professional and they would have never been huge with him on vocals and no way they could have done the type of music they did with Bruce. I don't agree that Blaze was a mistake...

I think he is right. Maiden are bigger in the US now. Priest still has sold more copies because they were more popular in the 80's. However, surely the popularity gap in the US is much less than in Latin America or Europe. Here in Latin America it's not even close, Maiden is waay bigger than...

Iron Maiden merchandise themselves much better and have become a part of pop culture. Anyone knows about Iron Maiden even if they never listened any single song and don't even like rock music. Whereas Judas Priest I am not so sure, they are very popular and anyone who knows rock history even if...

I've always wondered why because for me Priest is at par with Maiden in terms of classical albums. My favourite band is Maiden but I recognize that Judas Priest is at the same level and at some point in history Judas was even more popular than Maiden. However that seems to have changed since a...

If you had said up to 1988 I still wouldn't agree but I think you could have a point anyways. Now up to 1992? As I said, for me any of the reunion albums beat NPFTD and FOTD easily. Even TFF which I think is the weakest reunion album is still more consistent and with less fillers than No Prayer...

NPFTD is one of their weakest albums and half of FOTD are filler songs. Any of the reunion albums beat them easily.

Not a blasphemy in this forum because most of us are maiden fans to the core but when speaking to the average metalhead I always seem crazy. I think people in the future will look into the past and remember this Maiden period 2000- present as a classical period of the band and as the golden age...

NPFTD and FOTD may have been very succesful at the time based on some songs that were hits like Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter and Fear of the Dark. But I agree that majority of the fans nowadays don't consider those albums at par with Powerslave or Seventh Son or any of the first 7...

I love Dave, he is essential to the Iron Maiden sound but let's be honest, he's not that a great songwriter. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love some of his songs like Rainmaker or Still life and The Nomad among others. But it is certainly little compared to what Steve, Bruce, Adrian and even...

I am not saying they're not allowed to play whatever they want. In fact the exact opposite is being said. It is fine for me if they want to play another style of music if they feel like it. But if you're a real artist you will try to give your best to compose the best you can offer. What I...

I don't get it why everyone wants short songs. Don't get me wrong, I love songs like Speed of light or Death or glory but I don't think they would do better just composing songs like that. I think Maiden are great right now with the style they have.

I think one thing is to change because that's the path that music leads you and you want to progress and another thing is to change just for the sake of being succesful not caring if the music is of the best quality. That's the thing people criticize of Metallica, not the change per se. Iron...