Top sellers on Discogs this week
An early Cramps session, Radiohead’s much-discussed download release and a guitar album adapted from a picture book: today’s five have rather different routes to the record shelf. Sade and Taylor Swift complete the selection.
These are the first five distinct vinyl albums in Discogs’ weekly best-selling display, in the order shown. We skip duplicate editions, CDs, singles and EPs; compilation albums count. This is a selection from that weekly display, not a daily or album-wide sales ranking. *1
The Cramps: Gravest Gravy
“Weekend on Mars” is a good reason to stop at this one. Familiar from the live Smell of Female, it appears here in a studio recording from 1977. Gravest Gravy gathers material from the Ardent sessions that also produced Gravest Hits, giving songs with long histories another point of entry.
The choices of covers tell their own story. Roy Orbison’s “Problem Child”, Paul Revere and the Raiders’ “Hungry” and Jimmy Lloyd’s “Rocket in My Pocket” all turn up. The Cramps’ catalogue reaches much further into old rock ’n’ roll than the horror imagery might suggest. This archive release lets those connections sit together, alongside early versions of their own later recordings. Henry Rollins selected the tracks from seven tape reels; the album arrived this August, nearly half a century after the sessions. *2
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Radiohead: In Rainbows
Radiohead let listeners choose the price of the In Rainbows download in 2007. That decision has followed the album ever since, sometimes taking up more conversation than the ten songs. Coming across it on a vinyl chart is a reminder that an unusual release strategy can become a very ordinary shelf staple.
“Videotape” offers a smaller, more revealing story. A much fuller live arrangement was stripped back in the studio to piano and fractured rhythm. Elsewhere, “Nude” finally found its shape after years of work. Those two songs make a good pair: both arrived through revision, with the band finding what to leave out. At 42 minutes, the finished album gives its changes of pace room without sprawling. *3
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Masayoshi Takanaka: The Rainbow Goblins
A picture book found in Guam became Takanaka’s first double album. Ul de Rico’s The Rainbow Goblins gave the guitarist a story to work with in 1981, and the idea proved large enough to return to: a sequel, The White Goblin, followed in 1997.
That makes the artwork worth spending a little time with. It belongs to the premise of the record, rather than supplying a pretty landscape for unrelated tunes. Takanaka also took the project to the Budokan stage; those concerts became releases of their own. The edition here is the original studio album, reissued across two LPs. It is easy to wander from this one into the live recordings and sequel, but this is where the musical adaptation began. *4
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Sade: The Best of Sade
“Smooth Operator” is here, of course. So are “Your Love Is King”, “The Sweetest Taboo” and “No Ordinary Love”. Yet the closing stretch of Sade’s first compilation makes room for “Like a Tattoo”, “Cherish the Day” and “Pearls”, giving the sixteen-song selection more to do than march through the most recognisable singles.
Released in 1994, The Best of Sade is the compilation album in today’s five. There is no need to apologise for starting with a collection like this. It gives a newcomer several routes into the catalogue, and someone who already knows the albums a different sequence through familiar songs. “Pearls” closes it; leave room for that ending instead of treating the last tracks as extras. *5
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Taylor Swift: Reputation
The edition of reputation in the chart is a picture disc. The album’s public image was tightly tied to confrontation, particularly “Look What You Made Me Do”. But that image only gets you part of the way through the music.
“Delicate” has a very different concern from the defiance of the early singles: the uncertainty of a relationship beginning under scrutiny. By the time the album reaches “New Year’s Day”, the arrangement has settled around piano and the subject has narrowed to private life. That distance between the opening and closing songs is worth hearing across the full sequence. It gives the album somewhere to go beyond its most combative moments. *6
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Sources and notes
*1. Discogs’ This Week’s Best-Selling Vinyl Records & CDs, 19 September 2026. The selected editions appeared at positions 1, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Editions are linked separately above; the display does not provide album-wide sales totals. Return
*2. The Cramps’ release notes and track list: recording history, cover-song credits, tape selection and 21 August 2026 release. Return
*3. In Rainbows on Apple Music: release history, recording context, track sequence and running time. Return
*4. Universal Music’s Takanaka retrospective: picture-book origin, original double album, sequel and Budokan recordings. Return
*5. Sade’s official album page: 31 October 1994 release and sixteen-song sequence. Return
*6. reputation on Apple Music: album context and track sequence. The linked Discogs edition is a picture disc. Return