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Parachute debuts at #1, inspires fans

by Vijith Assar

As a result of their their primo placement, the free teaser track, and their two TV spots, Parachute’s new album Losing Sleep debuted at #1 on the iTunes Music Store’s sales charts yesterday, ahead of much-hyped new discs from Cam’ron, Steve Earle, and, well, everyone else. While that’s not quite as significant as, say, Soundscan figures or the Billboard charts, Apple’s download service surpassed Wal-Mart in sales back in February 2008 to become the largest music retailer in the country.

In addition, the corny-webcam-YouTube-covers-by-Asian-kids-with-acoustic-guitars index seems to indicate that these guys are going to be huge.







  • [...] New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones brutally laid the smackdown on Red Light’s high-flying major-label Charlottesville pop-rockers Parachute recently via Twitter. But despite the depths of his disdain [...]

  • Vijith Assar September 25th, 2009 | 2:39pm

    I just pressed play on all of these at simultaneously a la Zaireeka, which creates a pretty insane Stockhausen/Mraz/Cheez-Whiz bomb. Ever onward into the absurd!

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