The week Red came out, it accounted for nearly one out of every five albums sold. With 1989, Swift's percentage is even higher, grasping 22% of the total album sales for the week.
"I don't think I've ever seen anything be that high a share of the total market all by itself," Nielsen SoundScan analyst David Bakula says.
Swift sold 470,000 copies of 1989 at Target, which carried a deluxe edition of the album with six additional tracks. In other words, Swift sold more copies of her album at Target than the year's next-highest debut Coldplay's Ghost Stories, with 383,000 sold everywhere.
USA Today link That was for the first week. They also mention that she came close to the 1st-week record set by "Oops I Did It Again"...which sold more copies at 8% of total sales, back in 2000.
Miss Swift's empty spot is filled by Warm in the Wake's album American Prehistoric. I can't even remember why I put Warm in the Wake on my SFL list but they are one step closer.
Probably represents the feeling most of us have had at one time or the other when perusing our SFL.
50-31 of Tiny Mix Tape's list. I have 6 already (well maybe 5; I'm not sure if I have #50 - I think I do, but I don't think I've listened to it.) this is always the list I have most - I like their esthetic, and they deal with a lot of free NYOP stuff; probably better than any other list I know.
eta: actually all of the 5 or 6 I have so far were free!
None for me on Pitchfork, thought there were going to be none on TMT, but - yay! - their number 6, Ian William Craig, will be on my list. I was starting to think the whole internet was going to have to wait for the MiG lists to find out about the good music this year :-).
Top ten:
Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi) 266 (40)
Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM) 254 (32)
Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note) 223 (30)
Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh) 174.5 (25)
Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM) 159 (24)
Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi) 147 (25)
Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note) 135.5 (22)
Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note) 133.5 (18)
Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse) 101 (17)
Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13) 95 (15) *
Good for Steve Lehman, I haven't heard that one yet. Glad to see Brian Blade place. I like this LA Times list, esp since Orrin Evans and Smoke Sessions are featured! I just got the Osby/Tieneke album, based on this rec + Jonah's
Just finished writing my blurbs and hope to have a top 20 posted for Craig's review by this evening. Though I have finished writing it and am still in four minds about #20.
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From 2007: http://www.emusic.com/messageboard/viewTopic.html?topicId=30770
and later: http://www.emusic.com/messageboard/viewTopic.html?topicId=104550
and then tragedy struck: http://www.emusic.com/messageboard/viewTopic.html?topicId=151490
USA Today link That was for the first week. They also mention that she came close to the 1st-week record set by "Oops I Did It Again"...which sold more copies at 8% of total sales, back in 2000.
- The last one is really funny
Ah ! - and good old Wanderer, as seeeerious as he ever was. :-)
ETA:
NPR: Tell us your five greatest pieces of classical music from the last 100 years
Probably represents the feeling most of us have had at one time or the other when perusing our SFL.
eta: actually all of the 5 or 6 I have so far were free!
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I believe I have 33 which is lower than my usual number, but I also usually add a bunch from Christmas gifts.
Craig
The rest of TMT is up too; I ended up with 15, if I include a couple that I just picked up.
Craig
Top ten:
Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi) 266 (40)
Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM) 254 (32)
Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note) 223 (30)
Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh) 174.5 (25)
Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM) 159 (24)
Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi) 147 (25)
Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note) 135.5 (22)
Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note) 133.5 (18)
Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse) 101 (17)
Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13) 95 (15) *
Individual ballots at Tom Hull's site.
I know you all wait with baited breath.
Craig
Good for Steve Lehman, I haven't heard that one yet. Glad to see Brian Blade place. I like this LA Times list, esp since Orrin Evans and Smoke Sessions are featured! I just got the Osby/Tieneke album, based on this rec + Jonah's
Craig
Hey, that's a coincidence! I just need twenty album blurbs and an intro and I'll have my top 20!
The 17th Annual Brainwashed Readers Poll: Nomination Round
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More show up further down the list, which is where the fun is anyway.
Craig
http://www.birdistheworm.com/best-of-2014/
I'll be revealing 5 per day thru the 31st, when I reveal the BitW Album of the Year.
This page linked to above is where all the individual posts will be compiled.
Cheers.
Craig