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UNCUT magazines top 20 albums 2013
1. MY BLOODY VALENTINE "my bloody valentine"
2. DAVID BOWIE "the next day"
3. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS "push the sky away"
4. JOHN GRANT "pale green ghosts"
5. LAURA MARLING "once i was an eagle"
6. ROY HARPER "man and myth"
7. BILL CALLAHAN "dream river"
8. KURT VILE "walking on a pretty daze"
9. ARCTIC MONKEYS "am"
10.BOARDS OF CANADA "tomorrows harvest"
11.MATTHEW E WHITE "big inner"
12.PREFAB SPROUT "crimson red"
13.DAFT PUNK "random access memories"
14.THE NATIONAL "trouble will find me"
15.JULIA HOLTER "loud city song"
16.THEE OH SEES "floating coffin"
17.KANYE WEST "yeezus"
18.PARQUET COURTS "light up gold"
19.ENDLESS BOOGIE "long island"
20.VAMPIRE WEEKEND "modern vampires of the city"
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I listened to Bowie's Next Day album again and it's very good! Also one that escaped me - Rod Stewart's Time rock album from this year was very good. all straight ahead rock..no crooning on this one! It won't appear on any year end charts though!
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my mum bought the latest Rod Stewart album...i heard it fleetingly, sounded okay to me also, and i went off his music 25years ago!
Elton's "the diving board" was pretty good, so much so that its on my list to buy
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this one is based on album sales for the year
therefore it includes albums that were released prior to 2013
Billboard
1. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
2. Taylor Swift - Red
3. One Direction - Take Me Home
4. Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox
5. Mumford & Sons - Babel
6. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
7. Florida Georgia Line - Here's To The Good Times
8. Pink - The Truth About Love
9. Luke Bryan - Crash My Party
10. Rihanna - Unapologetic
11. Drake - Nothing Was The Same
12. Jay-Z - Magna Carta...Holy Grail
13. Lumineers - Lumineers
14. Phillip Phillips - The World From The Side Of The Moon
15. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist
16. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2
17. Blake Shelton - Based On A True Story...
18. Jason Aldean - Night Train
19. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
20. Soundtrack - Pitch Perfect
21. Adele - 21
22. Maroon 5 - Overexposed
23. fun. - Some Nights
24. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
25. Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire
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Fun and Daft Punk !!!!..yes!
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Amazon
1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
3. Chvrches - Bones Of What You Believe
4. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
5. Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
6. Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
7. Lorde - Pure Heroin
8. Bastille - Bad Blood
9. National - Trouble Will Find Me
10. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
11. Drake - Nothing Was The Same
12. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
13. Haim - Days Are Gone
14. Civil Wars - Civil Wars
15. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get...
16. Deafheaven - Sunbather
17. Foals - Holy Fire
18. Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
19. Fitz And The Tantrums - More Than Just A Dream
20. Icona Pop - This Is...
21. Phoenix - Bankrupt
22. Kanye West - Yeezus
23. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
24. Charli XCX - True Romance
25. Lucius - Wildewoman
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wish all the sources would tell you how the lists are compiled
whether an individual, a panel, sales
most curious about that last one from Amazon
the first one besides Billboard that I actually know most of them
hey CRAZY
don't you have a chart for Australian sales?
that would be interesting
also for Canada SteveO
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Here's what I managed to dig up for Canadian stats !
http://musiccanada.wordpress.com/2013/12...a-to-date/
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You may not be familiar with Johnny Reid..transplanted Scot actually...he's very good!
[video=youtube;wT9mJTYq-P8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT9mJTYq-P8[/video]
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interesting how they did this one
they took the top 10 of 63 different publications
gave points for top 3 from each
then ranked based on that score
sounds like something I would come up with
Metacritic
1. Kanye West - Yeezus
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
3. Arctic Monkeys - AM
...Arcade Fire - Reflektor
...Lorde - Pure Heroin
...Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
7. Savages - Silence Yourself
...Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
9. HAIM - Days Are Gone
...Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
11. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
12. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
13. National - Trouble Will Find Me
....John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
....Deafheaven - Sunbather
....Drake - Nothing Was The Same
....Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
18. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
....My Bloody Valentine - m b v
....Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
....Knife - Shaking The Habitual
....Disclosure - Settle
