Avalanche best sellers chart for the first 6 months of 2013

 

1.  Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse

2.  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away

3.  The National – Trouble Will Find Me

4.  Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart

5.  Quickbeam – Quickbeam

6.  Mogwai – Les Revenants

7.  Steve Mason – Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time

8.  Public Service Broadcasting – Inform Educate Entertain

9.  Boards Of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest

10.  Biffy Clyro – Opposites

11.  Atoms for Peace – Amok

12.  Low – The Invisible Way

13.  Camera Obscura – Desire Lines

14.  Queens Of The Stone Age – Like Clockwork

15.  David Bowie – The Next Day

16.  King Creosote – This Might Well Be It, Darling

17.  John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts

18.  L.Pierre – The Island Come True

19.  Edwyn Collins – Understated

20.  Conquering Animal Sound – On Floating Bodies

21.  Eels – Wonderful Glorious

22.  Vampire Weekend – Moden Vampires of the City

23.  Yo La Tengo – Fade

24.  British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy

25.  Strokes – Comedown Machine

26.  Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle

27.  Sigur Ros – Kveikur

28.  Pastels – Slow Summits

29.  Delta Mainline – Oh ! Enlightened

30.  Primal Scream – More Light

 

So far half the bands are Scottish. Seven of the top 10. Of course if it wasn’t just albums from 2013 there would be a lot more. Withered Hand, Admiral Fallow, Twilight Sad and a host of other bands continue to outsell new releases these days.