The Discogs Top 50 Best Selling Records Of July 2018

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.