U.S. Sales Figures for Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2011
Courtesy of Matthew P, here’s a great article about the sales of Pitchfork’s top 50 records. A little perspective: as he points out in the comments (although not in the post, for some reason), it’s extremely rare to top a million these days (only Jay and Kanye’s Watch the Throne makes it to that mark, although Mrs. Jay-Z comes close), and selling in the 30K - 60K range is the success mark that most smaller labels shoot for. With that in mind, holy shit, Bon Inver sold so many records! Good job,linkmeupbro
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.
