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The National's 'High Violet' Hits #3
As has become common lately, another high-profile indie release has crashed the Billboard 200. It's the National's superlative High Violet, which sold 51,000 copies and hit number three, falling behind only Justin Bieber's insidious My World 2.0, and Lady Antebellum's Need You Now. It's obviously the band's highest-charting album by a wide margin: their Boxer peaked at number 68 in 2007. [Billboard]
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Really, though, what the hell dos the Billboard chart mean anymore?
Pretty awesome for a band like The National to have the #3 album in the country. Times have changed.
Wasn't this predicted back when the iPod and stuff were first born? I think that the idea was as music becomes "free", so to speak, you see all of the support go to indie bands, and pop music just falls apart. I kind of love it. Supposedly, the market should shift to the way it was in the early 20th century. Where you could actually make a living as a playing musician without being some big superstar.
Jeremy