Alt-J back in UK Top 20 following Mercury Prize win


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Alt-J have enjoyed an increase in sales this week following their win at the 2012 Mercury Music Prize ceremony.

Their debut album ‘An Awesome Wave‘ has climbed fourteen places to #13 on the UK Album Chart, which is topped this week by Calvin Harris.




Elsewhere, Neil Young and Crazy Horse have entered at #14 with ‘Psychedelic Pill‘ and Jake Bugg drops to no.11 with his self-titled debut record.

UK Album Chart, Top 20:

1/ Calvin Harris – ’18 Months’
2/ Kylie Minogue – ‘The Abbey Road Sessions’
3/ Emeli Sande – ‘Our Version Of Events’
4/ fun. – ‘Some Nights’
5/ Taylor Swift – ‘Red’
6/ Mick Hucknall – ‘American Soul’
7/ Mumford & Sons – ‘Babel’
8/ Matt Cardle – ‘The Fire’
9/ Paloma Grace = ‘Fall To Grace’
10/ Madness – ‘Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da’
11/ Jake Bugg – ‘Jake Bugg’
12/ Muse – ‘The 2nd Law’
13/ Alt-J – ‘An Awesome Wave’
14/ Neil Young & Crazy Horse – ‘Psychedelic Pill’
15/ Jonathan & Charlotte – ‘Together’
16/ Pink – ‘The Truth About Love’
17/ Of Monsters And Men – ‘My Head Is An Animal’
18/ Peter Andre – ‘Angels and Demons’
19/ The Killers – ‘Battle Born’
20/ Labrinth – ‘Electronic Earth’


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