Chart Performance
"Cyanide" became Metallica's seventh number one hit on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, in March 2009. It is also their second consecutive number one on that chart from Death Magnetic, making the album only the second of Metallica's to spawn two number one hits on the chart (1996's Load being the first). It is also the band's fifth top twenty hit on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking at #19. The song peaked at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 from high digital sales due to being released as a digital single prior to Death Magnetic's release.
"Cyanide" has been successful worldwide as well, reaching the top twenty in Canada, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and the top fifty in Australia, the UK, and Ireland.
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