What are your neighbors listening to? Oxford Karma decided to survey Oklahoma mainstay Guestroom Records about its best-selling records each week to figure out just that. Here’s what was flying off the shelves/out of the crates this week:
1. The Beatles – The Beatles
2. Leon Bridges – Coming Home
3. Desaparecidos – Payola
4. The Stone Roses – Stone Roses
5. Jamie xx – In Colour
6. Drake – If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
7. Heartless Bastards – Restless Ones
8. Franz Ferdinand & Sparks – FFS
9. Other Lives – Rituals
10. James Taylor – Before This World
Nostalgia brought the Air-produced soundtrack to Virgin Suicides to the top of the charts this week, and it does the same this week, taking The Beatles’ seminal White Album to No. 1 and modern-day Sam Cooke Leon Bridges to No. 2 with his debut disc, Coming Home (which we named one of the best albums of 2015 so far). The same could be said for the Conor Oberst-led Desaparecidos, who land in third with their first full-length album since their 2002 debut, and the reissue of The Stone Roses’ 1989 self-titled debut LP.
Elsewhere we have Jamie xx holding pat in the top five, where he’s remained since debuting at No. 1 at the dawn of June. Drake comes in right after with his fourth album (or mixtape, if you ask him), followed by the brand new, fifth studio LP from Cincinnati garage rockers Heartless Bastards. Franz Ferdinand & Sparks ease up to No. 8, Other Lives crash back into the top 10 with Rituals, and James Taylor winds up the list with Before This World.
