Kanye West, Metallica top local sellers this week

With all the hype surrounding Kanye West's latest effort, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, it's not surprising that disc, released last week on Def Jam, debuted at number one at Independent Records and Twist & Shout. But West didn't make the top ten over Albums on the Hill, where Metallica's...

By Jon Solomon

November 30, 2010

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With all the hype surrounding Kanye West's latest effort, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, it's not surprising that disc, released last week on Def Jam, debuted at number one at Independent Records and Twist & Shout. But West didn't make the top ten over Albums on the Hill, where Metallica's Live at Grimey's , a special Record Store Day EP, came in at the top. See the full breakdown after the jump.

Top Sellers - 11/28/10

ALBUMS ON THE HILL

01. Metallica - Live at Grimey's
02. Michael Franti & Spearhead - The Sound of Sunshine
03. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remaster
04. Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
05. Veronica - Emerging From Troubled Days
06. Ego vs. Id - Taste
07. Elephant Revival - Break in the Clouds
08. U2 - Wide Awake in Europe (Limited Record Store Day 12-inch)
09. Black Keys - Brothers (Limited Record Store Day vinyl)
10. Soundgarden - "Telephantasm" (Record Store Day 7-inch)

INDEPENDENT RECORDS

01. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
02. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
03. Michael Franti & Spearhead - Sound of Sunshine
04. Lloyd Banks - H.F.M.2.
05. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days
06. Ne-Yo - Libra Scale
07. Twista - Perfect Storm
08. Kid Cudi - Man on the Man 2
09. Rihanna - Loud
10. Kid Rock - Born Free

TWIST & SHOUT

01. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
02. The National - High Violet
03. Elton John & Leon Russel - Union
04. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
05. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
06. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days
07. Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy
08. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
09. Florence & the Machine - Lungs
10. Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Volume 9 - The Witmark Demos

BEATPORT.COM

01. Format:B - "Gospel (Super Flu's Antichrist Remix)"
02. Federico Scavo & Alex Kenji - "Gimme Five (Mix 1)"
03. Nadia Ali - "Rapture (Avicii New Generation Extended Mix)"
04. Chocolate Puma - "Tonco Tone"
05. Noir - "Africanism"
06. Tom Novy - "Now or Never feat. Lima (Lissat & Voltaxx Remix)"
07. Deadmau5 - "Sofi Needs a Ladder"
08. F. Physical - "Ke Ke"
09. Ned Shepard, Funkagenda & Sultan - "Post Dreaming (orig. club mix)"
10. Booka Shade - "Regenerate (Pan-Pot remix)"