We’ve got a fresh top-ten top-sellers for Monday Morning! Perennial best-seller Rumours by FLEETWOOD MAC edged out Arlo Parks for the top spot. Rumours (original release 1977) has spent most of 2021 in our top-ten charts, hitting number-two on a few occasions, but this is its first number-one placement for the new year. Many a veteran record seller could tell tales of when this record was a lowly bargain bin staple that every record store in the world had too many copies of. No longer!

Our highest placing new release this week is at number three! GRETA VAN FLEET’s sophmore LP The Battle At Garden’s Gate is out and selling briskly. The retro minded Detroit rockers are still channeling the nineteen seventies but have expanded their sound a bit from the single minded blues stomp of their debut. Just take a look at our charts and it seems a throwback sound suites us just fine.

We’ve also got fusion in the charts! Fusion, for the novice record nerds out there, was a phenom of jazz artists FUSING jazz sounds with rock, pop, funk and soul sounds as the sixties turned to the seventies. The two true classics of the genre are both in our top-ten back-to-back at four and five. Bitches Brew from MILES DAVIS and Head Hunters by HERBIE HANCOCK are two of the most innovative and engaging jazz records in general, but also offer the 101 class in understanding the jazz fusion sound.