Pitchfork Top 10 Albums, In US Sales

Hola quiero que Adam Isacson sea mi tio o algo asi D:

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perpetua:

1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k
2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k
3. the xx xx 35k
4. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 75k (estimate)
5. Raekwon Only Built For Cuban Linx Part II 141k
6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest 132k
7. Bat For Lashes Two Suns 36k
8. Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 205k
9. Fever Ray Fever Ray 23k
10. Girls Album 19k

I don’t know the economics of this at all, but it’s hard to imagine an indie band even paying its grocery bills with such measly record sales. If we assume Animal Collective cleared $3 per album, then each member of the band would have got about $100,000 from US sales of Merriweather Post - less than what a mid-level Senate staffer makes.

And we can safely say that no mid-level Senate staffer made anything nearly as great as Merriweather Post this year.

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    Hola quiero que Adam Isacson sea mi tio o algo asi D: adamisacson:

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    SIW commentary on all this: First, artists don’t make very much on their albums. That’s always been the case. But they...

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    units (albums) sold,

17. spangley reblogged this from rickwebb and added:

    agreed. artists/bands don’t make a living off of record sales. also - if i made $100K a year doing what i love that...

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    Well… for starters, $100k a year is no slouch. Then there are sales in the rest of the world - figure another $100k...

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    1. Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion 131k 2. Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 48k 3. the xx xx 35k 4. The Flaming...

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    Umm…since when is $100,000 not a lot of money? I haven’t made anywhere close to $100,000 in four years, much less one...

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    I agree with most all of what inthefade said. My only opposition is that when you “sell out” you still want to maintain...

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    This is why I hate the term “sell out” and why I hate when people start throwing stones at bands for either selling...

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