NORTHWEST TOP 20BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES for the week of December 5

1. Neko Case Blacklisted (Mint)

2. Pearl Jam Riot Act (Epic)

3. Nirvana Nirvana (DGC)

4. Peepshow Guilty Pleasure (Self-release)

5. Dear John Letters Unbroken (Roam)

6. Hot Hot Heat Make Up the Breakdown (Sub Pop)

7. Minus the Bear Highly Refined Pirates (Suicide Squeeze)

8. Death Cab for Cutie You Can Play These Songs with Chords (Barsuk)

9. Doug Martsch Now You Know (WB)

10. Sleater-Kinney One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)

11. Voyager One Monster Zero (Loveless)

12. New Pornographers Mass Romantic (Mint)

13. Kinski Semaphore (Sub Pop)

14. Modest Mouse Lonesome Crowded West (Up)

15. Pink Martini Sympathique (Heinz)

16. Maktub Khronos (OSSiA)

17. Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends (Hydrahead)

18. Vermilion Flattening Mountains and Creating Empires (Redwood)

19. Carissa's Weird Songs about Leaving (Sad Robot)

20. Dolour Suburbiac (Fugitive)

Compiled from figures at Bedazzled Discs, Easy Street Records (West Seattle and Queen Anne), Orpheum, Singles Going Steady, and Sonic Boom (Ballard and Fremont).