Confession time we mostly opened a record store as an excuse to mine data for better and more accurate year end lists. Some of these titles are available for purchase in our online store, some of them you will have to come see us in real life to get and some of them are already gone forever.
Best Selling New Releases
1. Future - DS2 CD/2xLP (Epic)
2. Dr. Yen Lo - Days With Dr. Yen Lo CD/LP (Pavlov Institute)
3. Mozzy - Bladadah CD (Mozzy)
4. D'angelo - Black Messiah CD/2xLP (RCA)
5. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly CD/2xLP (TDE/Interscope)
6. Kamasi Washington - The Epic 3xCD/3xLP (Brainfeeder)
7. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside CD/LP (Tan Cressida/Sony)
8. Knxwledge - Hud Dreems CD/2xLP (Stones Throw)
9. Vince Staples - Summertime '06 2xCD/2xLP (Def Jam)
10. The Internet - Ego Death CD/2xLP (Odd Future/Columbia)
Best Selling Bay Area Catalog Titles & Reissues
1. Mac Mall - Illegal Business CS/CD (Young Black Brotha, 1993)
2. Mac Dre - Stupid Doo Doo Dumb CS/CD (Romp, 1998)
3. IMP - Back In The Days CS/CD (In-A-Minute, 1993)
4. Rappin' 4 Tay - Don't Fight The Feeling CD/CS (Rag Top, 1994)
5. Bored Stiff - Explainin' 2xLP (Hella, 1995/2015)
6. L-Wood & R8R - East Bay Classics CD (Self Released, 2013)
7. MC Pooh - Life Of A Criminal CD/CS (FBI, 1990)
8. Totally Insane - Direct From The Backstreets CS/CD (In-A-Minute, 1992)
9. Dre Dog - I Hate You With A Passion CS (In-A-Minute, 1995)
10 (tie). Souls Of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity CS/CD (Jive, 1993)
10 (tie). B-Legit - Tryin' To Get A Buck CS/CD Sick Wid It, 1993)
Best Selling Catalog Titles & Reissues From Everywhere Else
1. J Dilla - Donuts CS/2xLP (Stones Throw, 2006)
2. UGK - Ridin’ Dirty CD/2xLP (Jive, 1996/Get On Down, 2015)
3. Lil Noid - Paranoid Funk LP (Self Released 1995/LA Resource Club 2015)
4. Dr. Dre - The Chronic CD/2xLP (Death Row, 1992)
5. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory CD/2xLP (Jive, 1991)
6. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead CS (Tommy Boy, 1991)
7. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City CD/2xLP (TDE/Interscope, 2012)
8. Stretch & Bobbito - 3/24/94 CS (Fat Beats, 1994/2015)
9. Doughboyz Cashout - Free Roc CD (Self Released, 2012)
10 (tie). Nas - Illmatic CD/CS/LP (Columbia, 1994)
10 (tie). Common Sense - Resurrection CD/CS/LP (Relativity, 1994)
Our Favorite 2015 Rap Releases That You Are Sleeping On Out Here Buying Your Eighth Copy Of The Chronic Instead Or Worse Still Staying Inside And Sharing A Joke About Drake On The Internet
1. Scarface - Deeply Rooted CD (Facemob)
2. Chief Keef - Bang 3 2xCD (FilmOn/RBC)
3. Milo - So The Flies Don't Come CS (Ruby Yacht)
4. Rae Sremmurd - Sremmlife CD (Eardrummers/Interscope)
5. Oddisee - The Good Fight 2xLP (Mello Music Group)
Our Favorite 2015 Not-Rap Releases That You Are Sleeping On, Etc., Etc.
1. Jazmine Sullivan - Reality Show CD (RCA)
2. RP Boo - Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints 2xLP (Planet Mu)
3. Dawn Richard - Blackheart LP (Our Dawn)
4. Grimes - Art Angels CD/2xLP (4AD)
5. Miguel - Wildheart CD/2xLP (RCA)
Best Selling Pre-Hip Hop Artists Aka The List Of Dudes Come On Dudes
1. Teh Beatles
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Parliament/Funkadelic
4. John Coltrane
5. Miles Davis
6. Gil Scott Heron
7. Fela Kuti
8. Brian Eno
9. Led Zeppelin
10. Pink Floyd
Coolest Rare Rap Cassettes That We Already Sold In The Shop And No Longer Have Sorry You Slept Now You Suffer
1. E-40 - Mr. Flamboyant (Sick Wid It, 1991)
2. UGK - The Southern Way (Big Tyme, 1992)
3. Dangerous Dame - Jumpin' (James Edwards Sr. Enterprize, 1989)
4. Eightball & MJG - Listen To The Lyrics (On The Strength, 1991)
5. Freddy B - From The Old School (Serious Sounds, 1992)
Reissues of Strange And Interesting Music That We Loved And Stocked But Nobody Really Bought And Then Some Kid Was All "Oh Are You Trying To Make A Beat Right Now?" While We Were Playing One Of Them
1. Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba (Ama Romanta, 1988/Drag City, 2015)
2. Pekka Airaksinen - Buddhas Of Golden Light (O, 1984/Arc Light, 2015)
3. Medico Doktor Vibes – Liter Thru Dorker Vibes (Bi Russel, 1979/Companion, 2013)
4. Hailu Mergia - Tche Belew (Kaifa 1977 / Awesome Tapes From Africa 2014)
5. Coil - Backwards (Unreleased, 1992/Cold Spring, 2015)
Big Deal Albums By Famous People That We Could Not Sell More Than Three Copies Of Even Though We Did Try Sorta Just Saying This Is Not Necessarily A Comment On Quality But Also It Kind Of Is Except For With The Fetty He Cool
1. Adele - 25 CD/LP
2. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late CD
3. Dr. Dre - Compton CD/2XLP
4. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon CD/2xLP
5. Fetty Wap - Fetty Wap CD
Digital Only Releases That They Should've Done Physical Runs On And We Feel Weird Even Promoting Them Here Because The Fact That They Didn't Is A Constant Reminder Of How This Industry Does Not Even Fuck With Small Businesses Like Ours Anymore At All But Then Again The Music Was Cool So We Are Going To Share It Anyway Maybe We Should Just Start Bootlegging Shit Like This Next Year Who's Gonna Stop Us Not Jimmy Iovine Not Lyor Cohen
1. Future - 56 Nights/Beast Mode/But Not The Drake One Fuck That
2. Young Thug - Barter 6/Slime Season 1&2
3. Nef The Pharoah - S/T EP
4. Denzel Curry - 32 Zel/Planet Shrooms
5. Dej Loaf - #andseethatsthething EP
6. Starlito - Introversion
7. The Social Experiment - Surf
8. Quelle Chris - Innocent Country
9. E-40 - Poverty & Prosperty EP
10. Nicholas Fraser - "Why You Always Lying" lock groove 12"