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Warp Records is this week celebrating its first placing in the Top 10 of the US albums chart, with Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest debuting at number eight on week-one sales of 33,000.
The album, the second for Warp by the band who are from the US but UK- signed, has also charted within the top 30 in five other territories, including at number 24 in the UK. It also breached the top 100 in a further six territories around the world.
Warp co-founder Steve Beckett says that the result "reaffirms Warp as being home to talented musicians across genres. It's a great result for Warp with continued growth in a time of downturn in the industry and, of course, in the current economic climate."
Beckett says that it is also "a proven result" for the label's US office, which operates out of New York with a staff of ...