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Electric Fetus
The Electric Fetus has named their 100 top-selling albums of 2006. See how your CD collection compares and check out where your favorite local artists fall.
February 2007
You’ve read Brian Lambert’s February feature on The Electric Fetus, so you know Buena Vista Social Club is the store’s best-selling record of all time. Now check out their twenty-five top-selling albums of 2006, plus see where local musicians landed on their list of 100 top-selling albums for 2006.
1. The Bootlegs Vol. 1: Celebrating 35 Years at First Avenue, First Avenue
2. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case
3. Boneclouds, Mason Jennings
4. St. Elsewhere, Gnarls Barkley
5. Modern Times, Bob Dylan
6. At War with the Mystics, The Flaming Lips
7. Living with War, Neil Young
8. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Bruce Springsteen
9. Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast, Various Artists
10. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane—At Carnegie Hall, Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane
11. Boys and Girls in America, The Hold Steady
12. 3121, Prince
13. The Greatest, Cat Power
14. Return to Cookie Mountain, TV on the Radio
15. The Loon, Tapes 'n Tapes
16. Eye to the Telescope, KT Tunstall
17. Broken Boy Soldiers, The Raconteurs
18. You in Reverse, Built to Spill
19. Taking the Long Way, Dixie Chicks
20. The Breakthrough, Mary J. Blige
21. The Information, Beck
22. Another Fine Day, Golden Smog
23. All the Roadrunning, Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
24. Speak for Yourself, Imogen Heap
25. Rabbit Fur Coat, Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
33. You, Quietdrive
36. Tim O'Reagan, Tim O'Reagan
47. Separation Sunday, The Hold Steady
50. Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?, The Replacements
54. Audition, P.O.S.
56. You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having, Atmosphere
76. The Evening Call, Greg Brown
81. Lure the Fox, Haley Bonar
97. Rooster, Charlie Parr
98. Blue Sky and the Devil, Trampled By Turtles