Once a month we look back on the stuff we wrote that got the most attention. We don’t do any special weighting for items that appeared later in the month, or anything fancy like that. These are simply the things that received the most views last month, according to our stats. If an item carries over from last month’s chart, its prior rank appears in parentheses.

Current Chart

1. 21 Reasons Why Jay Bennett Should Be Back In Wilco (Feb)

2. 21 Best SXSW 2009 MP3s (Feb)

3. Review: Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream (Feb)

4. (1) The 21 Best Legal MP3s of 2008 (Jan)

5. Glorious Noise Turns Eight Years Old Today (Feb)

6. Lost Classics: Kate Bush – The Dreaming (Feb)

7. Axl Rose Speaks to Billboard (Feb)

8. Review: Von Bondies – Love Hate and Then There’s You (Feb)

9. Review: Glen Campbell – Greatest Hits (Feb)

10. (2) Jesse Malin – Live in Keighley (Jan)

See the Catalog Chart after the jump…

Catalog Chart

1. Elliott Smith’s Girlfriend Cut Off (2007)

2. (2) Jeff Mangum, Astra Taylor Married (2008)

3. Morrissey Saddles Up to Lost Highway (2008)

4. (1) The 100 Greatest Drug Songs Ever (2008)

5. Steamy new Britney video (2008)

6. Transience and Transcendence In the Aeroplane over the Sea (Pts. One and Two) (2008)

7. (9) GLONO Interview: Larry Crane, Archivist of Elliott Smith’s Estate (2007)

8. The (formerly) Private Life of Kurt Cobain (2008)

9. Beatles From Above (2008)

10. The 21 Best Beatles Songs Not on One, Red, or Blue (2008)

Methodology: If it’s from the current year (2009), it’s current. If it’s older than that, it’s catalog. We’re simple people. Previous charts: Oct. 2008, Nov. 2008, Dec. 2008, Jan. 2009.