The final sales week leading up to Christmas and Hanukkah was an overall disaster for the music industry as sales were off by 33% from 2007. It allowed, seemingly, albums featured prominetly in year-end "best-of" lists to find place sin the top 200.
Jamey Johnson's "That Lonesome Song," which the New York Times critics heavily praised sold 24,000 (No. 71); the Amazon-crowned Kings of Leon's "Only the Night" moved 22,000 (No. 75); and the album nearly every poll has high on the list, Fleet Foxes' self-titled release, sold 14,000 (No. 118).
Among the others: MGMT's "Oracular Spectacular" did 11,000 (No. 145); TV on the Radio's "Dear Science" tuned in 9,000 (No. 175); Bob Dylan's "Tell Tale Signs" wandered off with 9,000 bootheels (No. 177); Vampire Weekend flew off with 8,000 (No. 180); Bon Iver's "For Emma, Forever Ago" creaked out 7,000 (No. 196); and Lucinda Williams' "Little Honey" flowed with 7,000 (No. 198).