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. Unreleased Early Elliott Smith: Nine Inch Nails Diss Track (March)

2. (2) 21 Best SXSW 2009 MP3s (Feb)

3. Peter Doherty: Live in Glasgow (Photos) (Feb)

4. New Band: Jack White + Kills = Dead Weather (March)

5. SXSW Offers Torrent of 2009 Acts (March)

6. 13 Artists We’d Pay More Than $50 to See (March)

7. Lost Classics: The Magnolias – For Rent (March)

8. Kanye West vs. My Dear Disco (March)

9. Death of a Junky: the Rolling Stones (March)

10. Glorious Noise Interview: Eric Matthews (March)

See the Catalog Chart after the jump…

Catalog Chart

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

2. Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone (dot com) (2006)

3. (5) Steamy new Britney video (2008)

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

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

6. Elvis Designer Dead at 76 (2008)

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

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

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

10. Bat For Lashes – Horse and I (MP3) (2007)

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, Feb 2009.