Numbers
The sales numbers of Pitchfork’s top 50 albums. The ones with suspiciously round numbers are estimations based on when an album dropped out of the top 200 and the fact that it has to sell less than 300 copies in a week to do so. If you have verified numbers to fix any mistakes or omissions, send them along.
1. Bon Iver Bon Iver - 317,355
2. Destroyer Kaputt - 30,000
3. M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming - 59,573
4. PJ Harvey Let England Shake - 62,000
5. Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost - 30,000
6. Oneohtrix Point Never Replica - 3,800
7. Tune-Yards w h o k i l l - 40,386
8. Drake Take Care - 967,560
9. Real Estate Days - 20,700
10. The Weeknd House of Balloons N/A
11. St. Vincent Cruel Mercy - 44,334
12. James Blake James Blake - 47,372
13. EMA Past-Life Martyred Saints - 6,100
14. Shabazz Palaces Black Up - 14,767
15. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues - 277,541
16. Kurt Vile Smoke Ring for My Halo - 28,013
17. Clams Casino Instrumentals N/A
18. Atlas Sound Parallax - 12,411
19. Danny Brown XXX N/A
20. Nicolas Jaar Space is Only Noise N/A
21. Jay-Z/Kanye West Watch the Throne - 1,143,674
22. The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World N/A
23. Bill Callahan Apocalypse - 9,900
24. Juliana Barwick The Magic Place - 1,000
25. Gang Gang Dance Eye Contact - 8,600
26. The Field Looping State of Mind - 4,900
27. Beyonce 4 - 971,264
28. Cut Copy Zonoscope 51,000
29. DJ Quik Book of David - 29,000
30. Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 - 4,80031. Ty Segall Goodbye Bread - 2,800
32. Panda Bear Tomboy - 46,000
33. Fucked Up David Comes to Life - 19,000
34. Katy B On A Mission - 1,400
35. Frank Ocean Nostalgia, Ultra N/A
36. Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow - 27,199
37. Iceage New Brigade - 2,000
38. Sandro Perri Impossible Spaces N/A
39. War on Drugs Slave Ambient - 14,283
40. Araabmusik Electronic Dream - 1,000
41. Liturgy Aesthetica N/A
42. SBTRKT SBTRKT - 12,346
43. Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes - 27,000
44. Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges N/A
45. Kendrick Lamar Section.80 - 27,460
46. Cults Cults - 25,000
47. Sepalcure Sepalcure N/A
48. Toro Y Moi Underneath the Pine - 15,000
49. Wild Flag Wild Flag - 27,349
50. Youth Lagoon Year of Hibernation - 13,282
