Continuum's Strong Fourth Quarter Showing Pushes John Mayer's New Album to the Top of Musicbox-Online.com's Readers' Favorites for 2006

Popular magazine The Music Box has released the ranking of its readers' favorites for 2006. Topping the list is John Mayer's Continuum, which also ranked #1 on the publication's list of top albums for the fourth quarter. Trailing the effort were Van Morrison's Pay the Devil, T Bone Burnett's The True False Identity, and the self-titled debut by Norah Jones' side-project The Little Willies. Said Music Box founder John Metzger, "Our year-end compilation is always fascinating to me. While some albums enjoy a lot of success during the quarter in which they are released, our compilation of the statistics for the full year highlights which albums gained the most traction and had the most durability." These rankings are compiled from sales and traffic statistics through The Music Box's web site.

Readers' Favorites - 2006:

1) John Mayer - Continuum
2) Van Morrison - Pay the Devil
3) T Bone Burnett - The True False Identity
4) The Little Willies - The Little Willies
5) David Gilmour - On an Island

6) David Dodd - The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
7) Grateful Dead - Fillmore West 1969
8) Widespread Panic - Earth to America
9) Jerry Lee Lewis - A Half Century of Hits
10) Bob Dylan - Modern Times

11) Neil Young - Live at the Fillmore East
12) Michael Houser - Sandbox
13) Ray LaMontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
14) Derek Trucks Band - Songlines
15) Railroad Earth - Elko

16) Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning
17) Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing
18) Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
19) Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks, Volume 36
20) Santana - Santana III: Legacy Edition

21) Paul McCartney - Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart)
22) Fleetwood Mac - Men of the World: The Early Years
23) J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton - The Road to Escondido
24) Jerry Garcia - Ladder to the Stars: Garcia Plays Dylan
25) Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

26) Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
27) Robert Randolph & the Family Band - Colorblind
28) George Strait - It Just Comes Natural
29) Neil Young - Living with War
30) Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse

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