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From | craigtorso@verizon.net |
Subject | Re: The upcoming Decemberists album - The King is Dead |
Date | Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:33:38 -0600 (CST) |
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>Btw, I was reading the latest New Yorker and there's a 1 page
>Decemberists article which focuses in on the fact this new record
>debuted as #1 on the Billboard 200 album charts by moving just 93,000
>copies.
Which, interestingly, is more than the #1 before it (Cake, 44,000 copies) and after it (Amos Lee, 40,000 copies) combined.
All of the articles I've seen about this phenomenon have been rather hand-wringing in nature, but less-mentioned is this interesting cultural tidbit: supposedly "fringe" musical artists like Cake, The Decemberists, and Amos Lee have had the last three #1 albums in America. And this is bad...why, exactly?
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