Chart Rundown

Elvis Costello and the Imposters returned to the charts this week with the cd release of Momofuku selling almost 15K. Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner also saw an excellent first week of sales, nabbing the #1 spot on the New Artist Album chart for his project with Miles Kane of The Rascals, called The Last Shadow Puppets.  Other big winners include Radiohead whose sales jumped over 20% this week following VH1's "In Rainbows From The Basement" broadcast as well as Tokyo Police Club who jumped back up to the big charts this week.

Billboard 200:

• #17 Various Artists - Juno OST [24,818 this week, down 3.5%, 724,072 to date]
• #24 Portishead - Third [21,988 this week, down 58.4%, 75,008 to date]
• #28 The Roots - Rising Down [20,741 this week, down 61.4%, 74,665 to date]
• #46 Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords [14,225 this week, down 36.7%, 89,069 to date]
• #55 R.E.M. - Accelerate [13,575 this week, down 9.8%, 242,343 to date]
• #59 Elvis Costello - Momofuku [14,726]
• #74 Radiohead - In Rainbows [10,298 this week, up 20.6%, 502,866 to date]
• #95 Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once OST  [8,144 this week, up 9.6%, 557,827 to date]
• #102 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [7,411 this week, down 11.9%, 209,027 to date]
• #111 The Last Shadow Puppets - Age Of The Understatement [8,730]
• #116 Santogold - Santogold [6,715 this week, down 29.1%, 16,281 to date]
• #154 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [5,082 this week, up 3.3%, 73,599 to date]
• #200 Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell [3,790 this week, up 18.5%, 15,992 to date]

New Artist Albums (artists who've never had a release in the top 100 of the Billboard 200):

• #1 The Last Shadow Puppets - Age Of The Understatement [8,730]
• #4 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [5,082 this week, up 3.3%, 73,599 to date]
• #7 No Age - Nouns [3,931]
• #8 Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell [3,790 this week, up 18.5%, 15,992 to date]
• #19 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours [1,960 this week, down 20.1%, 18,251 to date]
• #20 M83 - Saturdays=Youth [1,918 this week, down 19.0%, 13,989 to date]
• #26 Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid [1,753 this week, down 36.3%, 10,291 to date]
• #73 The Duke Spirit - Neptune [967 this week, up 17.1%, 6,638 to date]
• #99 Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP [790 this week, down 1.4%, 6,330 to date]
• #100 Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into [785 this week, down 18.3%, 4,615 to date]
• #108 Foals - Antidotes [752 this week, down 34.0%, 10,141 to date]
• #115 The Republic Tigers - Keep Color [740]
• #144 Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Live! [616 this week, down 32.4%, 7,919 to date]

Comments

[Amber]

Great to see Tokyo Police Club make the list. that's incredible, making saddle creek proud; keep it up guys! :)

[Christina]

So happy to see Duke Spirit on the list. Saw them live, and front-lady Liela Moss seriously rocked it. I dont think anyone else can make the tamborine look so sexy. If youve never heard their stuff, check out tracks "Dogroses" and "Cuts Across the Land" (this ones from their previous album). They're both catchy like their single thats been (over) playing on the radio, but shows a little bit of the bands versatility.

Pretty sure these guys will be playing at the indie 103.1 show at the Hammer in Los Angeles July 17th. Check it out.

[me]

yeah i saw the duke spirit in dallas a while back and they were really good. they were also willing to talk to the kids after which always scores points with me.

[me]

has anybody heard anything more about elvis costello's tv show on sundance channel? http://www.prefixmag.com/news/elvis-costello-tv-show-coming-this-fall/17899/