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U.S. Sales Figures for Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2011
Eric Harvey put this together earlier this month, after he and I got the idea to put this together last year. I’m reblogging again because some people have asked me about it, and because his version is weirdly difficult to find on Google.
The ones with suspiciously round numbers are estimations based on when an album dropped out of the top 200 and the fact that it has to sell less than 3000 copies in a week to do so. Sales figures are the most recent as of 1/1/2012.
If you have verified numbers to fix any mistakes or omissions, send them along to myself or Eric.
1. Bon Iver Bon Iver - 347,428
2. Destroyer Kaputt - 32,446
3. M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming - 78,710
4. PJ Harvey Let England Shake - 69,000
5. Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost - 38,059
6. Oneohtrix Point Never Replica - 5,867
7. Tune-Yards w h o k i l l - 47,214
8. Drake Take Care - 1,246,774
9. Real Estate Days - 29,990
10. The Weeknd House of Balloons N/A
11. St. Vincent Cruel Mercy - 50,490
12. James Blake James Blake - 51,356
13. EMA Past-Life Martyred Saints - 8,071
14. Shabazz Palaces Black Up - 16,922
15. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues - 293,483
16. Kurt Vile Smoke Ring for My Halo - 33,115
17. Clams Casino Instrumentals N/A
18. Atlas Sound Parallax - 16,711
19. Danny Brown XXX N/A
20. Nicolas Jaar Space is Only Noise N/A
21. Jay-Z/Kanye West Watch the Throne - 1,231,676
22. The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World N/A
23. Bill Callahan Apocalypse - 13,389
24. Juliana Barwick The Magic Place - 5,383
25. Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact - 9,500
26. The Field Looping State of Mind - 5,800
27. Beyonce 4 - 1,058,292
28. Cut Copy Zonoscope 52,173
29. DJ Quik Book of David - 34,000
30. Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 - 5,500
31. Ty Segall Goodbye Bread - 3,900
32. Panda Bear Tomboy - 50,000
33. Fucked Up David Comes to Life - 22,949
34. Katy B On A Mission - N/A
35. Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra N/A
36. Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow - 28,199
37. Iceage New Brigade - 5,600
38. Sandro Perri Impossible Spaces 798
39. War on Drugs Slave Ambient - 17,427
40. Araabmusik Electronic Dream - N/A
41. Liturgy Aesthetica N/A
42. SBTRKT SBTRKT - 15,006
43. Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes - 27,000
44. Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges 4,361
45. Kendrick Lamar Section.80 - 31,640
46. Cults Cults - 30,000
47. Sepalcure Sepalcure N/A
48. Toro Y Moi Underneath the Pine - 25,000
49. Wild Flag Wild Flag - 33,139
50. Youth Lagoon Year of Hibernation - 17,574
