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