Avalanche Top 50 – 2011 so far
Halfway through 2011 our top 50 best sellers irrespective of year released – I’ll be very surprised if I don’t find I’ve missed someone out / miscounted later in the week but for now it will do.
Two Frightened Rabbit titles top 20 and three top 40, Kid Canaveral still top 10, two top 30 entries for Gordon of Ballboy, both Meursault albums holding off the challenge of Josh T Pearson in the top 40, Neutral Milk Hotel and Beirut still selling as are the Savings and Loan, Withered Hand and There Will Be Fireworks.
1. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything’s Getting Older
2. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
3. The Savings and Loan – Today I Need Light
4. Star Wheel Press – Life Cycle Of A Falling Bird
5. King Creosote and John Hopkins – Diamond Mine
6. Explosions In The Sky – Take Care Take Care Take Care
7. Conquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel
8. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
9. Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
10. Kid Canaveral – Shouting At Wildlife
11. Found – Factorycraft
12. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
13. The Scottish Enlightenment – St. Thomas
14. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
15. Withered Hand – Good News
16. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
17. Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
18. Bright Eyes – The People’s Key
19. Frightened Rabbit – Winter of Mixed Drinks
20. Broken Records – Let Me come Home
21. The Last Battle – Heart Of The Land Soul Of The Sea
22. Come On Gang – Strike A Match
23. Low – C’mon
24. Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
25. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
26. Low Anthem – Smart Flesh
27. Burns Unit – Side Show
28. Midsummer – A Play with Songs
29. Ballboy – I Worked On The Ships
30. Edinburgh School for the Deaf – New Youth Bible
31. Black Keys – Brothers
32. Decemberists – The King is Dead
33. Strokes – Angles
34. Aberfeldy – Somewhere To Jump From
35. Second Hand Marching Band – Compendium
36. There Will Be Fireworks – There Will Be Fireworks
37. Meursault – Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues
38. Meursault – All Creatures Will Make Merry
39. Josh T Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen
40. Frightened Rabbit – Sing The Greys
41. Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
42. British Sea Power – Valhalla Dancehall
43. Wild Beasts – Smother
44. Twilight Sad – Forget The Night Ahead
45. Ballad of the Books – Various
46. Sons and Daughters – Mirror Mirror
47. We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
48. Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
49. Son(s) – Son(s)
50. Christopher Eatough – A Creak In The Cold