Some selected entries from this week’s billboard charts: #01 Vampire Weekend – Contra Is that a younger Britney Spears on the cover of this album? I haven’t heard this yet, so I can’t make any comments on the quality of the music. These days it’s quite unusual for someone other than a solo female act [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over 1.2 million copies of Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream have been sold in the US in just two weeks (it stayed at #1 in it’s second week with over 500K copies sold.) This begs the question; what in the hell is wrong with people? Who are these million+ idiots who would buy this [...]

On Saturday I wrote this article about the Susan Boyle phenomenon and how it shows how superficial the average CD buyer is. Now that the album sales numbers are in (and they’re even higher than people projected they’d be) I thought a good way to showcase the ridiculousness of it all would be to show [...]

Alright, this is my third Thursday of taking a look at the Billboard 200 album charts. I don’t list every single album on the chart, I just pick out a few that I want to ramble on about. #1 – Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream (debut) The biggest single week sales of the [...]

Lots of folks are buying Susan Boyle’s debut album (it’s currently at #1 on Amazon’s bestseller’s list) even though it’s a style of music that most of the people buying it have no real interest in and certainly would not buy if it was by some random person they had never heard of. I think [...]