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Anyway, how are things on the west coast?
Submitted by Erik Gonzalez on July 19, 2007.It was a busy week of album sales, but not busy enough for our pals in Interpol. Our Love to Admire did well for the lads, but only well enough to land at #4 on this week's Billboard album charts. They were beat out by last and this week's #1, T.I., the return of Smashing Pumpkins (well, of Billy Corgan calling his band Smashing Pumpkins at least) and, yes, tween star Hannah Montana. However, the thing that really got me in the top 10 this week was right after Amy Winehouse (currently at #9) stood the new Spoon album. Yes, Spoon is now a top 10 national band!
Some other fun info: The next tween sensation, Aly and AJ, debuted at #15 with Insomniatic (which I'm not sure is even a word). The soundtrack to Hairspray did, in fact, make it into the top 20 at #20. And for those of you wanting to relive your youth, Bad Religion rang in at #35 and even Crowded House came in at #46.
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Erik Gonzalez said on July 19, 2007:
Apparently less people than buy T.I. records, but more than buy anybody else's records.
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imaginary char said on July 19, 2007:
This article No One Admits To Singing, Writing, Producing Nation's No. 1 Song was cracking me up this morning.
"Somewhere out there, there are some folks who are deeply, deeply ashamed of what they've done. And after hearing a few seconds of that song, I can't really say that I blame them."
HILARIOUS!
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Jesse said on July 19, 2007:
Pumpkins P&P Boycott
The saddest part of the Zeitgesit doing so well is there is pretty much a nation wide (all CIMS stores at least) policy to not give the record any sale pricing or positioning due to his indie retail bashing. Regardless, we are selling tons of the crap at full price and the rest of the nation is buying it at Best Buy. BOO!
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imaginary dana said on July 19, 2007:
Char, you should totally make a separate blog post about that article so more people see it. Effing hilarious.
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Joseph Riippi said on July 19, 2007:
The Smashing Pumpkins rule. Billy Corgan's an egomaniac, but he backs it up.
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imaginary dana said on July 19, 2007:
Who still buys Smashing Pumpkins records...?