The Official Charts Company (OCC) has revealed that AM, which was released in September last year, has maintained healthy sales into the first quarter 2014.
This was boosted by the band’s double win (Band of the Year and Album of the Year) at the BRIT Awards in February.
However, the biggest selling vinyl album to be released this year is Mogwai’s Rave Tapes, released in January and charting at number two in the OCC’s Top 10 Vinyl Albums of 2014 chart.
Elbow’s The Take Off and Landing of Everything charted at number four, while Temples’ Sun Structures and Metronomy’s Love Letters rank number seven and eight respectively.
The success of these albums has helped get 2014 off to the best start in more than a decade for vinyl albums.
Last year saw 790,000 vinyl albums sold in the UK – but 2014 is already more than one-third of the way to that target after 15 weeks, putting it on course for sales around 900,000 for the full year, the OCC said.
This represents a 13 percent year-on-year increase.
Top 10 Vinyl Albums of 2014 in full:
This was boosted by the band’s double win (Band of the Year and Album of the Year) at the BRIT Awards in February.
However, the biggest selling vinyl album to be released this year is Mogwai’s Rave Tapes, released in January and charting at number two in the OCC’s Top 10 Vinyl Albums of 2014 chart.
Elbow’s The Take Off and Landing of Everything charted at number four, while Temples’ Sun Structures and Metronomy’s Love Letters rank number seven and eight respectively.
The success of these albums has helped get 2014 off to the best start in more than a decade for vinyl albums.
Last year saw 790,000 vinyl albums sold in the UK – but 2014 is already more than one-third of the way to that target after 15 weeks, putting it on course for sales around 900,000 for the full year, the OCC said.
This represents a 13 percent year-on-year increase.
Top 10 Vinyl Albums of 2014 in full:
| 1 | AM | ARCTIC MONKEYS | DOMINO RECORDINGS |
| 2 | RAVE TAPES | MOGWAI | ROCK ACTION |
| 3 | HIGH HOPES | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | COLUMBIA |
| 4 | THE TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF EVERYTHING | ELBOW | FICTION |
| 5 | WARPAINT | WARPAINT | ROUGH TRADE |
| 6 | KISS ME ONCE | KYLIE MINOGUE | PARLOPHONE |
| 7 | SUN STRUCTURES | TEMPLES | HEAVENLY |
| 8 | LOVE LETTERS | METRONOMY | BECAUSE MUSIC |
| 9 | SO LONG SEE YOU TOMORROW | BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB | ISLAND |
| 10 | GOING BACK HOME | WILKO JOHNSON/ROGER DALTREY | CHESS |
