A top 150 albums of 2009 list has been voted on (and then compiled) at what I believe is the biggest Radiohead fan forum on the internet. As a big Radiohead fan (and a member of that forum, although I didn’t take part in this vote as I’m not much of a regular because the [...]

Susan Boyle has topped the Billboard charts for the 4th consecutive week and her sales actually went up this week from the week before. She’s already sold well over two million copies of her album (I Dreamed A Dream.) She looks to have a very good shot at reaching three million sales for the year [...]

I find this list of the sales numbers for Pitchfork’s top 10 albums of 2009 quite interesting. It’s amazing to me to see how few albums a band such as Animal Collective actually sells. Merriweather Post Pavilion has only sold 131,000 copies through December 13th in the US. While they may be considered huge in [...]

The Flaming Lips cover of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon will be released as a download only album on ITunes tomorrow. I’m personally boycotting buying this album because I hate ITunes. AmazonMP3 rules, and they really should have made this available there too. But I’ll still be listening to this one [...]

The Facebook campaign to get Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name” (originally released in 1992) as the “Christmas #1″ in the UK has succeeded. “Killing in the Name” sold 502,672 copies, while XFactor (some terrible reality show along the lines of American Idol – yes, it’s produced by Simon Cowell) winner Joe McElderry‘s [...]

Last.FM has released their “best of 2009” top ten albums released from October 1, 2008 through November 19, 2009. The chart is is based on which albums’ songs have had the most “scrobbles.” Live albums and greatest hits compilations are not included. Here’s the top ten: #10 Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak – 6.6 [...]

In further proof that the average American is an imbecile, Billboard has named Nickelback as the “Band of the Decade” for having more chart success during the decade than any other “group or duo.” They were 7th overall behind Eminem, Usher, Nelly, Beyonce, Alicia Keys, and 50 Cent. Quite a group isn’t it? In case [...]

On January 20th Animal Collective released Merriweather Post Pavilion and it’s been one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year (Pitchfork gave it a 9.6, it’s ranked as the 3rd best reviewed album of 2009 by Metacritic, and users of RateYourMusic.com currently have it as the #1 rated album of 2009.) Personally, it’s [...]

As you’ve probably noticed from some of my previous articles, I’m obsessed with charts and with The Beatles. I was inspired to write this particular chart-o-phile fanatical Beatles related post by seeing that The Beatles jumped from #3 to #1 on this week’s Last.FM charts (maybe because of the recent release of The Beatles USB?) [...]

For awhile I’ve been meaning to pick up the debut self titled CD by Monsters of Folk for awhile as I’m a pretty decent sized fan of the solo work of some of the members of this indie rock supergroup, particularly M. Ward (the band also features Conor Oberst and Mike Mognis from Bright Eyes [...]