Housekeeping — January 1, 2014 at 3:54 pm

Slicing Up Eyeballs’ most-clicked of 2013: The Replacements, Peter Murphy, Best of the ’80s

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Well, we didn’t quite get this in before the end of the year, but, hey, the first day of 2014 is as good as any to look back at 2013 and tally up what people have been reading on Slicing Up Eyeballs over the past 12 months. The answer: News about The Replacements, Peter Murphy and Siouxise, plus a whole lot of Best of the ’80s results posts.

As you can see from the list of Top 20 most-viewed posts below, the Best in the ’80s series was very popular, with results post taking up seven of the Top 10 slots, and nine of the Top 20, with only the most recent entry, the 1989 results, not cracking the list. Plus, two of the initial voting posts made the list.

As we approach our fifth anniversary in February, it’s been another huge year for the site, the biggest yet. In 2013, we saw 1.3 million unique visitors from a total of 210 different countries — including one apiece from Turkmenistan, Swaziland, Micronesia and Chad — and registered nearly 3.9 million pageviews over the course of 2013. That’s a 56 percent increase over 2012’s total count.

So thank you all for frequenting Slicing Up Eyeballs in 2013 to read, watch, listen, vote, comment, participate and share — and stay tuned for an even better 2014.

 

Slicing Up Eyeballs’ most-viewed posts of 2013:

1. The Replacements at Riot Fest: Photos, video, setlist from first ’Mats show in 22 years (8/25/13)
2. Peter Murphy pleads guilty to meth possession, sentenced to 3 years probation (10/14/13)
3. Top 100 Albums of 1980: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 1 (3/6/13)
4. Top 100 Albums of 1984: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 5 (7/1/13)
5. Top 100 Albums of 1986: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 7 (9/3/13)
6. Top 100 Albums of 1983: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 4 (6/3/13)
7. Top 100 Albums of 1985: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 6 (8/1/13)
8. Top 100 Albums of 1987: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 8 (9/30/13)
9. Top 100 Albums of 1981: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 2 (4/1/13)
10. Danny Elfman to sing publicly in U.S. for first time in 18 years this Halloween (9/3/13)
11. Drummer Alan Myers, Devo’s ‘human metronome,’ loses cancer battle (6/25/13)
12. Top 100 Albums of 1982: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 3 (5/1/13)
13. Siouxsie plays ‘Kaleidoscope’ in full at first concert in 5 years (6/15/13)
14. Top 100 Albums of 1988: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 9 (10/28/13)
15. Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s, Part 7: Vote for your top albums of 1986 (8/5/13)
16. Depeche Mode opens ‘Delta Machine’ world tour in Nice, France: Setlist + Video (5/4/13)
17. Listen to The Replacements’ first concert in 22 years — stream full Riot Fest set (8/26/13)
18. Pixies draft The Muffs’ Kim Shattuck to replace Kim Deal on ‘massive global tour’ (7/1/13)
19. The Cure’s Robert Smith celebrates birthday with 4-hour, 50-song concert in Mexico (4/22/13)
20. Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s, Part 8: Vote for your top albums of 1987 (9/11/13)

 

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