Indies Made Major Inroads on Billboard 200 Album Charts in 2010

Filed under: Between the Notes Fans of the music an older generation used to call "college rock" are probably aware that both Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album charts this year. It might be less widely known that the digital-only compilation 'Hope for Haiti Now' was another independently distributed record to top the US pop chart in 2010. You have to go back 15 years to find the last (and only other) time that more than one indie album topped the Bill...

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