The best-selling single was a reissue of David Bowie’s 1974 single Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide on seven-inch vinyl, with Pixies’ comeback record Indy Cindy the best-selling album.
Overall, a record 245 stores participated in the event, and labels and artists produced more than 640 exclusive products for the day.
Record Store Day’s UK coordinator Spencer Hickman, who first launched the concept in the UK in 2008, said: ‘The statistics continue to show Record Store Day going from strength to strength, but the stats only tell part of the story.
‘Record Store Day is ultimately about record store culture, the committed music fans who run indie record shops and the music fans who queue from early in the morning to get their hands on the music they love and enjoy this one-day celebration of music’s grassroots.’
Exclusive releases came in a record-breaking 57 collectible formats, ranging from CDs to seven-inch boxsets to a wrestling mask plus download package.
Organisers said that those releases whose origin could be determined, 49 percent came from the UK and 40 percent from the US, with five percent coming from the Netherlands.
Just 22 percent came from the three major record companies (Universal, Sony and Warner), with the rest coming from independents.
Hickman added: ‘Major record companies and US repertoire may dominate much of the music industry, but Record Store Day is overwhelmingly about British music and music from independent labels.’
Record Store Day 2014 sales top 10s
Overall, a record 245 stores participated in the event, and labels and artists produced more than 640 exclusive products for the day.
Record Store Day’s UK coordinator Spencer Hickman, who first launched the concept in the UK in 2008, said: ‘The statistics continue to show Record Store Day going from strength to strength, but the stats only tell part of the story.
‘Record Store Day is ultimately about record store culture, the committed music fans who run indie record shops and the music fans who queue from early in the morning to get their hands on the music they love and enjoy this one-day celebration of music’s grassroots.’
Exclusive releases came in a record-breaking 57 collectible formats, ranging from CDs to seven-inch boxsets to a wrestling mask plus download package.
Organisers said that those releases whose origin could be determined, 49 percent came from the UK and 40 percent from the US, with five percent coming from the Netherlands.
Just 22 percent came from the three major record companies (Universal, Sony and Warner), with the rest coming from independents.
Hickman added: ‘Major record companies and US repertoire may dominate much of the music industry, but Record Store Day is overwhelmingly about British music and music from independent labels.’
Record Store Day 2014 sales top 10s
| Top 10 albums | ||
| Title | Artist | |
| 1 | Indie Cindy | Pixies |
| 2 | Ghostbusters | Ray Parker Jr |
| 3 | Live Versions | Tame Impala |
| 4 | Dirk Wears White Sox | Adam and the Ants |
| 5 | Live With Joe Strummer | The Pogues |
| 6 | Meltdown With The Ramones | The Ramones |
| 7 | Demolicious | Green Day |
| 8 | Never Mind The Bollocks - Alternative | Sex Pistols |
| 9 | Nothing New | Gil Scott-Heron |
| 10 | Tanx | T-Rex |
| Top 10 singles | ||
| Title | Artist | |
| 1 | Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide | David Bowie |
| 2 | Supersonic | Oasis |
| 3 | Pennyroyal Tea | Nirvana |
| 4 | American Beauty | Bruce Springsteen |
| 5 | Midnight Memories | One Direction |
| 6 | An Ideal for Living | Joy Division |
| 7 | There’s a Beast and We All Feed It | Jake Bugg |
| 8 | Peaches | The Stranglers |
| 9 | Sock It To Em JB | The Specials |
| 10 | Hollow Ponds | Damon Albarn |
