After topping the UK’s main album chart yesterday ahead of Bob Dylan, The xx have also pipped the veteran songwriter to the number one spot on the Record Store Chart this week with their second LP ‘Coexist‘.
The chart, which is compiled entirely from sales registered at Britain’s independent record stores, has Gallows‘ new self-titled album in the Top 10 (#5), one place ahead of last week’s chart-topper ‘The Vaccines Come Of Age‘.
Elsewhere, 2012 Mercury favourites Alt-J remain at #15 with ‘An Awesome Wave‘, and Elbow‘s b-sides collection ‘Dead In The Boot‘ holds on to a Top 20 place.
UK Record Store Album Chart, Top 20:
1/ The xx – ‘Coexist’
2/ Bob Dylan – ‘Tempest’
3/ Toy – ‘Toy’
4/ David Byrne & St. Vincent – ‘Love This Giant’
5/ Gallows – ‘Gallows’
6/ The Vaccines – ‘The Vaccines Come Of Age’
7/ Calexico – ‘Algiers’
8/ Cat Power – ‘Sun’
9/ Mark Knopfler – ‘Privateering’
10/ The Script – ‘#3′
11/ Animal Collective – ‘Centipede Hz’
12/ ZZ Top – ‘La Futura’
13/ Of Monsters And Men – ‘My Head Is An Animal’
14/ Pet Shop Boys – ‘Elysium’
15/ Alt-J – ‘An Awesome Wave’
16/ Two Door Cinema Club – ‘Beacon’
17/ Elbow – ‘Dead In The Boot’
18/ Bill Fay – ‘Life Is People’
19/ Emeli Sande – ‘Our Version Of Events’
20/ Plan B – ‘Ill Manors’
