CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 12/7/23 + STAFF PICKS
Hi Everyone,
On October 19, the Coalition of Independent Music Stores along with AIMS, DORS, FAMS and Amoeba Music released a public statement in opposition to Luminate's decision to change the way sales from independent record stores are reported. Yesterday it was announced that Luminate will move forward with this change starting Week 1 2024. Our opposition to this change still stands.
Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
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ANDREA PASCHAL
CIMS/THINKINDIE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Andrea’s favorite albums of 2023 (in no particular order)
1. Jungle- Volcano
2. Blonde Redhead- Sit down for Dinner
3. Gorillaz- Cracker Island
4. Alabaster Deplume- Come with Fierce Grace
5. Oneohtrix Point Never-Again
6. Allison Goldfrapp- The Love Invention
7. La Femme- Paris- HawaÏ
8. Thomas Bangalter- Mythologies
9. Julia Holter- Behind the Wallpaper
10. Blur- Ballad of Darren
11. Beach House- Become EP
LIZ BOGER
CIMS SALES & MARKETING
In no particular order:
Cannons/ Heartbeat Highway
Holly Humberstone/ Paint My Bedroom Black
Local Natives/ Time Will Wait For No One
Feist/ Multitudes
Caroline Polachek/ Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
Various Artists / Barbie the Album
Arlo Parks/ My Soft Machine
Slowdive/ Everything is Alive
Sigur Rós/ ÁTTA
Palehound/ Eye on the Bat
M83/ Fantasy
Samia/Honey
BLAKE WIMBERLY
CIMS/THINKINDIE A.I.
lp
Hotline TNT- Cartwheel (Third Man)
Various- Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works, 1996 - 2003 (Music From Memory)
Wallace- Ripples (Rhythm Section International)
µ-Ziq- 1997 (Balmat)
Slowdive- everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
ep
Gigi Testa- Jinja (Rush Hour)
Space Ghost- Aquarium Nightclub Reworks (Tartelet Records)
Trinidadian Deep- Erotic Sonics (WIP Music)
Larry Heard- Vault Sessions 2 (Alleviated Music)
Buttechno- Minimal Cuts II (Incienso)
track
Django Django, Yuuko Sings- "Don't Touch That Dial - Make A Dance Remix" (Because Music Ltd.)
Rhode & Brown, Kid Simius- "Suite Tropical" (Shall Not Fade LTD)
Fred P- "On The Beach" (Private Society)
Eden Burns, Christopher Tubbs- "Timmy's Dream - Monday 5am Mix" (Public Possession)
Soichi Terada- "Bamboo Fighter - Byron The Aquarius Remix" (Rush Hour)
Third Wife- "Ride or Die" (Concrete Lab)
Latrec- "Kutika" (Viscera Transmissions)
Known Artist- "I Need - Club Mix" (Club Mix Records)
DJ Immaterial- "Purple Evil" (Geothermal Records)
Barry Can't Swim- "Sunsleeper" (Ninja Tune)
mix
Chaos In The CBD- Fabric Presents: Chaos In The CBD (Fabric Records)
ASHLEY VASKE
CIMS/THINKINDIE ACCOUNTING
My Favorites of 2023:
Gorillaz: Cracker Island
Feist: Multitudes
Braids: Euphoric Recall
La Femme: Paris-Hawaï
Jenny Lewis: Joy’All
Far From Saints: Far From Saints
Alabaster DePlume: Come With Fierce Grace
Explosions In The Sky: End
The Chemical Brothers: For That Beautiful Feeling
Cherry Glazerr: I Don’t Want You Anymore
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile
The Kills: God Games
SCOTT REGISTER
THINKINDIE A&R
My annual baker’s dozen of some of my favorites. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Thanks for all you do for indie retail.
1. Lydia Loveless – Nothing’s Gonna Stand In My Way Again – Bloodshot Records
2. Far From Saints – Far From Saints – Ignition
3. Peter Gabriel – I/O – Real World Records
4. Semisonic – Little Bit Of Sun – Pleasuresonic
5. Anohni & The Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross – Secretly Canadian
6. Wednesday – Rat Saw God – Dead Oceans
7. Daughter – Stereo Mind Game – Glassnote
8. Jungle – Volcano – Caiola/AWAL
9. Logan Ledger – Golden State – Rounder
10. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes – Southeastern Records
11. Jamila Woods – Water Made Us – Jagjaguar
12. Genesis Owusu – Struggler – Ourness/AWAL
13. Wyatt Flores – Life Lessons – Island Records
RUSSELL COTHRAN
THINKINDIE SALES & MARKETING
24 From 23’
1. Slowdive- Everything Is Alive
2. Sigur Ros- Atta
3. Beach House- Become
4. Submotion Orchestra- Unplugged Vol II
5. Deeper- Careful
6. Debby Friday- Good Luck
7. Laurel Halo- Atlas
8. Depeche Mode- Memento Mori’
9. Jpeg Mafia & Danny Brown- Scaring The Hoes
10. James Blake- Playing Robots Into Heaven
11. Luke Schneider- It Is Solved By Walking
12. The Kills- God Games
13. Murray A. Lightburn- Once Upon A Time In Montreal
14. Sofia Kourtesis- Madres
15. David Holmes & Raven Violet- Blind On A Galloping Horse
16. Mayer Hawthorne- For All Time
17. Kevin Drew- Aging
18. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis- Australian Carnage Live At The Sydney Opera House
19. Durand Jones- Wait Til I Get Older
20. The National- First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
21. Mitski- The Land Is Inhospitable & So Are We
22. Caroline Polachek- Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
23. billy woods & Kenny Segal- Maps
24. Beach Fossils- Bunny
NICK CAMPBELL
THINKINDIE WAREHOUSE MANAGER
1. Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert
2. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling
3. Slowdive - everything is alive
4. Wild Nothing - Hold
5. Clark - Sus Dog
6. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
7. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
8. M83 - FantasyDanny Brown & JPEG
9. Danny Brown & JPEG Mafia - Scaring the Hoes
10. Everything But The Girl - Fuse
JOHNNIE SHANEYFELT
THINKINDIE/CIMS WAREHOUSE
1. Boygenius - The Record (Interscope)
2. Janelle Monae - The Age of Pleasure (Atlantic)
3. Gitkin - Nowhere to Go but Everywhere (Antifragile Music)
4. Pawpaw Rod - This must be a Pawpaw Rod EP (Godmode)
5. Tyler Childers - Rustlin’ in the Rain (RCA)
6. Drake - For All the Dogs (OVO Sound / Republic)
7. Daniel Ceaser - Never Enough (Republic)
