Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales

perpetua:

1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k
2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k
3. the xx xx 35k
4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 75k (estimate)
5. Raekwon Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II 141k
6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 132k
7. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 36k
8. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 205k
9. Fever Ray Fever Ray 23k
10. Girls Album 19k

Sales figures are from Soundscan through December 6th, 2009. I was hoping to get data for the entire Pitchfork top 50 and reshuffle the list to reflect sales, but that’s looking to be a tall order. Here are sales numbers for other albums on the list…

Those numbers are units (albums) sold, not revenue dollars, which also means this excludes singles sales.  [via Heather]

Source: perpetua

210 Notes/ Hide

  1. borobudur reblogged this from perpetua
  2. wolfboyswisdom reblogged this from adamisacson and added:
    Hola quiero que Adam Isacson sea mi tio o algo asi D: adamisacson:
  3. banale reblogged this from perpetua
  4. gerhardstephanus reblogged this from perpetua
  5. stuartinwashington reblogged this from petervidani and added:
    SIW commentary on all this: First, artists don’t make very much on their albums. That’s always been the case. But they...
  6. manyinwonderland reblogged this from perpetua
  7. robbiemitchell reblogged this from perpetua and added:
    units (albums) sold,
  8. spangley reblogged this from rickwebb and added:
    agreed. artists/bands don’t make a living off of record sales. also - if i made $100K a year doing what i love that...
  9. rebeccalando reblogged this from petervidani
  10. rickwebb reblogged this from petervidani and added:
    Well… for starters, $100k a year is no slouch. Then there are sales in the rest of the world - figure another $100k...
  11. saladfork reblogged this from singwithourheros and added:
    1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k 2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k 3. the xx xx 35k 4. The Flaming...
  12. clintisiceman reblogged this from girlcyborg and added:
    Umm…since when is $100,000 not a lot of money? I haven’t made anywhere close to $100,000 in four years, much less one...
  13. illustratedexample reblogged this from inthefade and added:
    I agree with most all of what inthefade said. My only opposition is that when you “sell out” you still want to maintain...
  14. inthefade reblogged this from essdogg and added:
    This is why I hate the term “sell out” and why I hate when people start throwing stones at bands for either selling...
  15. littlekhole reblogged this from petervidani