In my never-ending quest to find sources for "good music" — whatever that may mean — I hacked together a Yahoo Pipe from the Billboard 200 that spits back a rough list of the top debuts. Billboard provides an API service, but I didn't want to sign up for a key and read thru documentation. They provide a public feed of the top 200, which I believe is updated daily, which is fine, but I don't want to sift through 200 items in my Reader every day to find the changes. And to make this a bit more tricky, the only real info provided in the feed is album rank, but you can get the feed pre-sorted by weeks-on-chart.
So the pipe truncates to the first X number of albums with the lowest number of weeks on the chart, and then it filters to only those in the top X ranks. Those two variables are sent to the pipe as a query string, so I may need to tweak those. Respectively, 40 and 15 seem to do a good job right now.
