Viagra Boys top UK Record Store Chart with Welfare Jazz
Viagra Boys top UK Record Store Chart with Welfare Jazz
Viagra Boys are also in the Top 20 with Welfare Jazz’s predecessor Street Worms.
The second album from Viagra Boys has moved up to top the latest UK Record Store Chart.
As ever, the vinyl market continues to keep some well worn favourites in fashion; Oasis, Portishead and The Stones Roses among those in the Top 20 currently, while Fontaines D.C. are at #11 with the much more recent A Hero’s Death.
It’s now nine years since The Official Charts Company launched this chart as vinyl sales surged during the last decade, a trend which continued in 2020 as the format grew for the 13th consecutive year. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
Disclaimer:
I am only one man with limited time and, in 2020, I undertook a law conversion (hence the drop of in features in the winter), so if your favourite record is missing chances are I just haven’t heard it yet, so please share your favourite LPs below the line.
Equally, because I’ve been extremely busy, this list leans heavily on albums that I have reviewed (big names, big hype releases) as there are still a host of records I’m desperate to hear, but will not include without having listened to them in full (Thou, Pallbearer, Sasha Sloan, The Koreatown Oddity, Napalm Death, Thundercat, Idles, Against All Logic, Declan McKenna, Denzel Curry, 21 Savage, etc…).
Taylor Swift tops first UK Record Store Chart of 2021
Taylor Swift tops first UK Record Store Chart of 2021
Taylor Swift quickly followed up Folklore in December with Evermore.
The first of two 2020 studio albums from Taylor Swift is in turn the first top the UK Record Store Chart in the new year.
Folklore leads an obviously quiet week for new releases, with acclaimed 2020 albums from the likes of Laura Marling, Phoebe Bridgers and Working Men’s Club still proving popular, while the more recent McCartney III from Paul McCartney is at #11.
It’s now nine years since The Official Charts Company launched this chart as vinyl sales surged during the last decade, a trend which continued in 2020 as the format grew for the 13th consecutive year. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
Live4ever’s Best Of 2020: The Albums 14 December, 2020
20: Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club
“At times, they’re just bloody lovely, the glistery Madchester frescoes of Outside and Tomorrow for all the world sounding like the sort of pilled up escapism teenage hostages sometimes plump for, while the Berliner techno muscle of A.A.A.A. shifts to nihilism, distorted vocals and grinding low end sounding like the thoughts you might have inside your head if the surroundings didn’t have it in a vice. There’s also a deadly, playful air of provocation: Cook A Coffee is aimed squarely at the UK’s brillo haired, establishment shill Andrew Neil.”