Chart Rundown

The rise of holiday albums and mainstream releases, such as the latest incarnation of the Now That's What I Call Music series, has pushed many interesting releases off of the Billboard 200, including such victims as the latest from TV On The Radio, Kaiser Chiefs, Eagles of Death Metal and Oasis.  Kings Of Leon, however, saw an incredibly impressive 41% sales jump this week, likely thanks to Amazon.com's recommendation as the best album of 2008.  Meanwhile, Q-Tip barely missed 50K his second week on the charts, and Coldplay continue climbing to the 2M mark for Viva La Vida.

Billboard 200:

• #5 Various Artists - Twilight OST [106,521 this week, down 35%, 271,847 to date]
• #36 Coldplay - Viva La Vida [19,452 this week, down 1%, 1,905,679 to date]
• #39 Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night [18,545 this week, up 41%, 195,144 to date]
• #50 Q-Tip - Renaissance [14,881 this week, down 57%, 49,100 to date]
• #64 Snow Patrol - Hundred Million Suns [11,019 this week, down 26%, 74,277 to date]
• #74 Duffy - Rockferry [9,595 this week, down 10%, 579,191 to date]
• #88 Ryan Adams - Cardinology [7,380 this week, down 41%, 60,093 to date]
• #98 The Smiths - Hang The DJ: The Very Best Of [6,850]
• #109 The Cure - 4:13 Dream [6,186 this week, down 32%, 39,436 to date]
• #110 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [6,160 this week, up 4%, 224,303 to date]
• #129 M.I.A. - Kala [5,400 this week, down 1%, 385,377 to date]
• #145 Shiny Toy Guns - Seasons Of Poison [4,774 this week, down 61%, 16,941 to date]
• #157 Bloc Party - Intimacy [4,469 this week, down 33%, 34,998 to date]
• #158 Keane - Perfect Symmetry [4,466 this week, down 10%, 70,215 to date]  
• #196 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs [3,588 this week, up 5%, 429,233 to date]

Independent Albums:

• #33 Deerhunter - Microcastle [3,077 this week, down 5%, 10,605 to date]
• #34 Ting Tings - We Started Nothing [3,072 this week, up 5%, 1115,128 to date]
• #37 Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On [2,963 this week, down 36%, 16,837 to date]
• #39 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes [2,867 this week, down 3%, 123,930 to date]
• #41 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [2,792, up 23%, 331,423 to date]
• #46 Radiohead - In Rainbows [2,642 this week, up 12%, 642,480 to date]
• #48 Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping [2,621 this week, down 23%, 23,031 to date]
• #59 Stars - Sad Robots EP [2,164]
• #64 Santogold - Santogold [2,071 this week, up 57%, 96,492 to date]
• #73 Travis - Ode To J.Smith [1,801 this week, down 61%, 6,388 to date]
• #78 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges [1,744 this week, down 15%, 155,840 to date]
• #80 Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords [1,723 this week, up 21%, 210,383 to date]
• #84 Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago [1,684 this week, up 18%, 76,179 to date]
• #85 88-Keys - Death Of Adam [1,679]
• #96 Little Joy - Little Joy [1,476 this week, down 16%, 3,262 to date]
• #98 Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live In Japan [1,456 this week, down 24%, 6,432 to date]
• #99 Cold War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty [1,448 this week, down 3%, 45,762 to date]
• #106 Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst [1,328 this week, up 12%, 74,323 to date]
• #116 Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust [1,185 this week, up 6%, 110,100 to date]
• #132 Blitzen Trapper - Furr [1,022 this week, down 9%, 10,830 to date]
• #154 Department of Eagles - In Ear Park [898 this week, down 7%, 9,935 to date]
• #167 Okkervil River - Stand Ins [851 this week, up 8%, 30,762 to date]
• #182 Iron & Wine - Shepherd's Dog [788 this week, up 30%, 182,385 to date]

Comments

[allie]

i can't believe of all the albums out there, kings of leon made it to the top of amazon's list. i mean, it was fine and all, but SERIOUSLY? can't wait to see filter's top 10...