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Sufjan Stevens Hits Top Ten, Lil Wayne Number One

11:16 a.m. · October 20, 2010 · by Andrew Winistorfer

So it turns out that Amazon's pricing structure has maybe helped another indie artist gatecrash the Billboard 200: Sufjan Stevens, has hit number eight on Billboard, selling slightly close to 33,000 copies of The Age of Adz. It wasn't as good a showing as Arcade Fire, but it's pretty huge; who would have thought that the idiosyncratic electronic album from a indie folker would be Billboard fodder. 

In other chart news, the early digital release of Lil Wayne's I'm Not a Human Being didn't hurt his sales too much--he still hit number one, selling around 130,000 copies of the album.