What are your neighbors listening to? Oxford Karma decided to survey Oklahoma mainstay Guestroom Records about its best-sellers each week to figure out just that. This week is a special one, a seismic shift in the charts thanks to the litany of exclusive Record Store Day titles sold on Guestroom’s (and most other independent record stores) best selling day of the year:
1. Run the Jewels – Record Store Day 12″
2. Elvis Presley — My Happiness
3. Mumford & Sons — Believe
4. John Moreland — High on Tulsa Heat
5. The White Stripes — Get Behind Me Satan
6. The Black Keys & Junior Kimbrough – Meet Me in the City
7. Father John Misty — I Love You, Honeybear
8. Polaris– Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete
9. Various Artists – Hedwig and the Angry Inch Cast Recording
10. Citizen Dick – Touch Me, I’m Dick
Run the Jewels run this chart like a Chinese sweatshop, taking the throne with their RSD single that featured tracks like new song “Bust No Moves” and “Pew Pew Pew.” Meanwhile, The King’s very first recording (anonymously purchased for $300,000 by Jack White and then very publicly reissued by him) charted at No. 2. Fans are buying Mumford & Sons Silence of the Lambs-like transition into the skin suit of Kings of Leon, embracing the more electric sound and landing them in the top three. Oklahoma’s own John Moreland shows more than a little fight by clawing his way to No. 4, the only non-official RSD release on the chart. Get Behind Me Satan finally got the vinyl treatment after a puzzlingly long absence, while White’s nemeses The Black Keys tag along in his footsteps … as they are wont to do.
Father John Misty’s heart-shaped release (which disappointingly didn’t include his cover of Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box”) comes in at No. 7, the Neil Patrick Harris-anchored recording of the Broadway smash lands at No. 9, while nostalgia for early-’90s pop culture fills the final two spots: the soundtrack for Nickelodeon favorite The Adventures of Pete and Pete and the release of Singles’ fiction band single “Touch Me I’m Dick” clock in at No. 8 and No. 10, respectively.
