The Pet Shop Boys' 10th studio set Yes has charted at #32 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums according to MTV, making it their highest-placed record since Very hit #20 in 1993.Yes also marks Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's first Top 40 album in the States since Bilingual made #39 in 1996.
The PSBs' last album, Fundamental, reached #150 in the U.S., selling around 5,000 copies in its first week. Yes apparently moved about 14,000 copies.In some ways you probably have to chalk it up to great reviews from prominent magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and Spin, and interviews with places like CNN. Oh, and the music, of course. (And my incessant blogging about them. Ha.)
A new interview with the Pet Shop Boys went up yesterday on the Village Voice website.
SIDE NOTE: Yes is now the fourth highest-charting album in America from the Boys, following Please (#7, 1986), Actually (#25, 1987) and Very (#20, 1993).
ALSO SEE:
* EP's-Worth Of New Material On Next Pet Shop Boys Single
* My Track-By-Track Review Of Pet Shop Boys' Yes
* Pet Shop Boys' Very At 15: How Can I Even Try To Explain?