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 (February)

2. Ex-Wilco Jay Bennett Dead at 45 (May)

3. Unreleased Wilco – I Wish I Were Ian Dury (May)

4. Kara DioGuardi writes worst song EVER (May)

5. Wilco (the leak) leads to Wilco (the stream) (May)

6. Photos: Jay Bennett In-Store, May 2002 (May)

7. Elliott Smith’s Archives: The GLONO Interview with Larry Crane (March)

8. Remembering Jay Bennett (May)

9. Fun with Forkcast, Round 14 (May)

10. John Lennon: New York exhibit shows bag of bloody clothes (May)

See the Catalog Chart after the jump…

Catalog Chart

1. The Jay Bennett track-by-track listing of instruments played on YHF (2002)

2. Interview with Jay Bennett (2002)

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

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

5. (4) Elvis Designer Dead at 76 (2008)

6. (3) Jeff Mangum, Astra Taylor Married (2008)

7. Exclusive Glorious Noise Interview with Jay Bennett (2002)

8. (8) Steamy new Britney video (2008)

9. The Last Picture Show: Final Photos of Famous People (2008)

10. (10) Carl Barat on Pete Doherty (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, Feb 2009, March 2009, April 2009.