Whether or not you find it irresistible or suppose it’s a lame ass filler ballad for ladies (guess which one I fall underneath), there’s no denying that Metallica‘s “Nothing Else Issues” off the band’s insanely large 1991 self-titled album is a fan favourite. Usually thought of by most old-fashioned steel followers as the proper time to go get a beer or use the restroom, the ballad is now one of many lower than 500 tracks on Spotify to achieve one billion streams.

The mark was reached in lower than 11 years on the streaming service, as Metallica didn’t formally put their tunes on Spotify till December 2012. Given the truth that the Black Album continues to promote properly all these years later, together with its straightforward mainstream enchantment, it shouldn’t be any shock that the ballad obtained this many performs.

What’s notably humorous about this entire factor is the truth that Metallica has gone on to say that “Nothing Else Issues” nearly ended up not being a factor in any respect. The story goes that James Hetfield had written the music whereas out on certainly one of their lengthy ass world excursions about lacking his girlfriend on the time. Throughout an interview with Mojo Journal, the long-lasting frontman stated he thought of not even taking part in the music for his bandmates.

“At first I didn’t even wish to play it for the blokes. I believed that Metallica might solely be the 4 of us. These are songs about destroying issues, head banging, bleeding for the group, no matter it’s, so long as it wasn’t about chicks and quick automobiles, regardless that that’s what we preferred. The music was a couple of girlfriend on the time. It turned out to be a fairly large music.”

“Nothing Else Issues” is the second Metallica music to achieve a billion streams, with clearly “Enter Sandman” hitting that mark this previous January. their Spotify web page, evidently the following closest observe to a billion listens is “Grasp of Puppets” with greater than 722 million streams, although that one might take some time nonetheless to achieve that mark.