Thursday, December 14, 2006

This is really interesting: Reckless just sent out a list of their top 20 selling albums as of today. Fascinating to see what the Chicago kids are purchasing. Behold:

1. joanna newsom "ys"
2. sufjan stevens "songs for christmas"
3. swan lake "beast moans"
4. clipse "hell hath no fury"
5. shins "phantom limb" single
6. sunn o)))/boris "altar" 2cd version
7. beck "information"
8. fucked up "hidden world" lp
9. tv on the radio "return to cookie mountain"
10. bonnie 'prince' billy "letting go"
11. mucca pazza "a little marching band"
12. and you will know us by the trail of dead "so divided"
13. neil young "live at the fillmore east" w/ dvd
14. decemberists "crane wife"
15. mark kozelek "little drummer boy" live
16. white magic "dat rosa mel apibus
17. chin up chin up "this harness can't ride anything"
18. pj harvey "peel sessions: 1991-2004"
19. yo la tengo "i am not afraid of you and i will beat
"your ass"
20. bound stems "appreciation night"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i wonder how much chart position is dependant on how much they ordered. (heaven for bid that reckless actually order enough copies of a record)

i do find the spread from 6 through 1 to be interesting...hip-hop...hipster xmas record...and drone..with a shins single thrown in the middle....weird...