British musician and songwriter Damon Albarn (of the U.K. band Blur) started Gorillaz in 1998, in collaboration with comic book artist Jamie Hewlett. Gorillaz is a cartoon, or virtual band. Albarn and his crew write, play and sing the music behind the facade of the characters he and Hewlett created. The 2001 debut album Gorillaz sold over seven million copies, and the group officially became the most successful virtual band ever- outselling other virtual bands like The Archies and Alvin & the Chipmunks. Albarn and Hewlett had a falling out in 2012, and that seemed to be the end of their project. They resolved their differences, and now we have the fifth Gorillaz full-length album, the apocalyptic party record Humanz.
Here are the Top 30 releases played on Studio One Tracks as of June 4:
1 The Mountain Goats- Goths
2 Kevin Morby- City Music
3 Land Of Talk- Life After Youth
4 Hoops- Routines
5 Benjamin Booker- Witness
6 Gorillaz- Humanz
7 Pokey LaFarge- Manic Revelations
8 Sylvan Esso- What Now
9 Mac DeMarco- This Old Dog
10 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
11 Nite Jewel- Real High
12 San Fermin- Belong
13 Wavves- You're Welcome
14 (Sandy) Alex G- Rocket
15 Son Volt- Notes Of Blue
16 Thurston Moore- Rock N Roll Consciousness
17 Slowdive- Slowdive
18 Future Islands- The Far Field
19 Marika Hackman- I'm Not Your Man
20 Day Wave- The Days We Had
21 Ani Difranco- Binary
22 Blond Ambition- Slow All Over
23 Hazel English- Just Give In/Never Going Home
24 Blondie- Pollinator
25 The Courtneys- The Courtneys II
26 Erasure- World Be Gone
27 The National- "The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness" single
28 Fleet Foxes- "Fool's Errand" single
29 Woods- Love Is Love
30 Girlpool- Powerplant
