This Day in History: 2023-09-03
SEPTEMBER 3rd
Heart’s blistering ‘Barracuda” peaks at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. 1977
“Powerslave,” the follow-up to “The Number Of The Beast,” is unleashed. The Iron Maiden album, like its predecessor, goes platinum (one million sales). 1984
Judas Priest roll out their 12th album “Painkiller.” The set, which marks the debut of drummer the debut of drummer Scott Travis, enters the Billboard album chart at #26 on its way to moving more than 2-million units worldwide. 1990
Iron Maiden’s seventeenth studio album, “Senjutsu,” drops. Maiden’s first full-length effort in nearly six years subsequently tops the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. 2021