Sunday, December 27, 2009
Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales
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 19kSales 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]
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SIW commentary on all this: First, artists don’t make very much on their albums. That’s always been the case. But they...
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units (albums) sold,
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agreed. artists/bands don’t make a living off of record sales. also - if i made $100K a year doing what i love that...
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Well… for starters, $100k a year is no slouch. Then there are sales in the rest of the world - figure another $100k...
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1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k 2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k 3. the xx xx 35k 4. The Flaming...
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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...
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no artist expects to make their living from album sales anymore. its not lucrative. the album is used as a marketing...
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Not that I’m saying anything that isn’t already common knowledge, but touring and non-album merchandise are the only...
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$100,000 when you’re a musician living your dream and doing what you absolutely love goes a lot farther than $100,000...
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