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New Releases for January 12, 2018
The cassette crusade continues! The Boom's Top 10 tapes of 2017
2017 saw yet another uptick in cassette sales according to the number crunching folks at Nielsen Music. Via The Hollywood Reporter. Last year, cassette album sales rose by 35 percent to 174,000 copies sold. In 2016, there were 129,000 sold.
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We Gave Our Website a Make-Over!
Hello everybody! Sorry for our extended technical difficulties, we lost an old server and decided to overhaul our website in the meantime.
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Best Selling Albums of 2017: All Formats!
Announcing our best selling albums of the year 2017!
All formats! Rankings reflect combined sales of vinyl, CD, and cassette for all the new-releases of this calendar year. Lets count down the top 20.
20. Mac Demarco 'This Old Dog' (Captured Tracks)
19. Ryan Adams 'Prisoner' (Pax Americana / Blue-Note)
18. Arcade Fire 'Everything Now' (Sonovox)
17. Beck 'Colors' (Capitol)
16. Chastity Belt 'I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone' (Hardly Art)
15. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile 'Lotta Sea Lice' (Matador)
14. Thundercat 'Drunk' (Brainfeeder)
13. Sufjan Stevens 'Planetarium' (4AD)
12. Queens Of The Stone Age 'Villains' (Matador)
11. Gorillaz 'Humanz' (Parlophone)
10. Spoon 'Hot Thoughts' (Matador)
9. LCD Soundsystem 'American Dream' (DFA / Columbia)
8. XX 'I See You' (Young Turks)
7. Father John Misty 'Pure Comedy' (Sub Pop)
6. The National 'Sleep Well Beast' (4AD)
5. Run The Jewels '3' (self-released)
4. Fleet Foxes 'Crack-Up' (Nonesuch)
3. Kendrick Lamar 'Damn' (Top Dawg / Interscope)
2. Slowdive 'self-titled' (Dead Oceans)
1. The War On Drugs 'A Deeper Understanding' (Atlantic)
Top Selling Hip-Hop Vinyl of 2017
1. Run The Jewels - "S/T"
2. Kendrick Lamar - "Damn"
3. Shabazz Palaces - "Born of a Gangster Star"
4. Shabazz Palaces - "Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines"
5. V/A - "Solar Power Comp"
6. Kahlid - "American Teen"
7. Joey Bada$$ - "All-Amerikkkan Badass"
8. Kate Tempest - "Let Them Eat Bat Chaos"
9. Weeknd - "Starboy"
10. Lil Uzi Vert - "Vs the World"
Top Selling Metal Vinyl of 2017
1. Mastodon - "Emperor of Sand"
2. Pallbearer - "Heartless"
3. Elder - "Reflections of a Floating World"
4. Uncle Acid - "Vol 1"
5. Power Trip - "Nightmare Logic"
6. Converge - "Dusk in Us"
7. Arcadea - "S/T"
8. Gate Creeper - "Sonoran Depravation"
9. Bell Witch - "Mirror Reaper"
10. Boris - "Dear"
Top Selling Country Vinyl of 2017
1. Chris Stapleton - "From a Room 1"
2. Margo Price - "All American Made"
3. Willie Nelson - "God's Problem Child"
4. Justin Townes Earle - "Kids in the Street"
5. Pokey Lafarge - "Manic Revelations
Top Selling Modern Classical & Unclassifiable Vinyl of 2017
1. Midori Takada - "Through the Looking Glass"
2. Moondog - "S/T"
3. Visible Cloaks - "Reassemablage"
4. Olafur Arnalds - "Eulogy for Evolution"
5. Terry Riley - "Persian Surgery"
Top Selling Soundtracks on Vinyl of 2017
1. La La Land
2. Singles (reissue)
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
4. Labyrinth (reissue)
5. Twin Peaks: Return
6. Hero of Time - Legend of Zelda
7. Baby Driver
8. Blade Runner (reissue)
9. Moana
10. Star Wars (reissue)
Top Selling R&B / Soul Vinyl of 2017
1. Sampha - "Process"
2. Sharon Jones - "Soul of a Woman"
3. Childish Gambino - "Awaken My Love"
4. Curtis Harding - "Face Your Fear"
5. Michael Kiwanuka - "Love & Hate"
6. Chicano Batman - "Freedom is Free"
7. SZA - "CTRL"
8. Moses Sumney - "Aromanticism"
9. Polyrhythmics - "Caldera"
10. Kelela - "Take Me Apart"
Top Selling Jazz Vinyl of 2017
1. Alice Coltrane - "World Spirituality Classics"
2. Kamasi Washington - "Harmony of Deference"
3. Sun Ra - "Singles 2"
4. Jeff Parker - "Slight Freedom"
5. Noel Brass JR - "Broken Cloud Orchestra"