After spending just one month outside the top spot thanks to Ghost, Pink Floyd is back. Hardly a surprise. What might be surprising, however, is that a cassette made it into the top 50 in July. And it’s a new cassette, at that!
There’s been a lot of talk — and a lot of balk — about the marked rise of cassette sales mentioned in the 2018 Discogs Mid-Year Report. Some folks don’t think it means much. Others view it as a signal of the end times. Either way, July’s best-seller list proves that cassettes are for real thanks to Juggalo-adjacent rapper Ouija Macc and his latest tape, Trashfire, which debuted at 19 on the list.
In what might actually be a sign of the end times, Ouija bested the long lost Coltrane album that finally saw the light of day at the tail end of June. Back in March 1963, John Coltrane’s Classic Quartet recorded a session at Van Gelder Studios. It wasn’t initially released and went into storage at Impulse! Records. To cut down on space, the label destroyed the masters.
Thankfully, studio maven Rudy Van Gelder duplicated the tapes so Coltrane could listen at home. For decades, no one knew the extra masters existed and were in possession of Coltrane’s first wife, Juanita Naima. The tapes were eventually acquired by the label and released as Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.
#1 – Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
Previous Month’s Position: #2
#2 – Michael Jackson – Thriller
Previous Month’s Position: #3
#3 – Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Previous Month’s Position: #4
#4 – The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Previous Month’s Position: #9
#5 – Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Previous Month’s Position: #6
#6 – The Beatles – Abbey Road
Previous Month’s Position: #12
#7 – Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
Previous Month’s Position: #4
#8 – Pink Floyd – The Wall
Previous Month’s Position: #8
#9 – Nu Guinea – Nuova Napoli
Previous Month’s Position: #16
#10 – The Beatles – The Beatles
Previous Month’s Position: #23
#11 – Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
Previous Month’s Position: #29
#12 – Led Zeppelin – Untitled
Previous Month’s Position: #10
#13 – Michael Jackson – Bad
Previous Month’s Position: #14
#14 – The Beatles – Revolver
Previous Month’s Position: #28
#15 – Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman
Previous Month’s Position: #34
#16 – Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II
Previous Month’s Position: #13
#17 – Queen – A Night At The Opera
Previous Month’s Position: #37
#18 – Supertramp – Breakfast In America
Previous Month’s Position: #18
#19 – Ouija – Trashfire
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#20 – Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction
Previous Month’s Position: #32
#21 – Prince And The Revolution – Purple Rain
Previous Month’s Position: #24
#22 – Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#23 – AC/DC – Back In Black
Previous Month’s Position: #39
#24 – New Order – Blue Monday
Previous Month’s Position: #21
#25 – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#26 – Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III
Previous Month’s Position: #31
#27 – Dire Straits – Dire Straits
Previous Month’s Position: #27
#28 – John Coltrane – Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#29 – Pink Floyd – Animals
Previous Month’s Position: #17
#30 – David Bowie – Let’s Dance
Previous Month’s Position: #44
#31 – Michael Jackson – Off The Wall
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#32 – The Doors – The Doors
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#33 – David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Previous Month’s Position: #22
#34 – Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A.
Previous Month’s Position: #20
#35 – Nirvana – Nevermind
Previous Month’s Position: #38
#36 – The Beatles – Rubber Soul
Previous Month’s Position: #50
#37 – Eagles – Hotel California
Previous Month’s Position: #15
#38 – Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life
Previous Month’s Position: #49
#39 – Neil Young – Harvest
Previous Month’s Position: #43
#40 – Madonna – Like A Virgin
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#41 – King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King An Observation By King Crimson
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#42 – Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
Previous Month’s Position: #21
#43 – Pink Floyd – Meddle
Previous Month’s Position: #25
#44 – U2 – The Joshua Tree
Previous Month’s Position: #45
#45 – Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
Previous Month’s Position: #42
#46 – Ryo Fukui – Scenery
Previous Month’s Position: #35
#47 – Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#48 – Sade – Diamond Life
Previous Month’s Position: #30
#49 – Steely Dan – Aja
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
#50 – Madonna – True Blue
Previous Month’s Position: #N/A
Is there any Pink Floyd fans interested in the LP WORKS from Taiwan but its PRE-pressed sleeve /alternative design still in design mode with stickers were the songs should be etc, but with pressed Vinyl.
(Meant to reply to bonirex)
And the cassette version is limited to 100, the CD version to 500 but has never been sold (on discogs)
almost the same albums every month. what a disappointment…
How is Trashfire such a big seller if only 17 people on Discogs (at current count) own it?