Jamie Cook, Arctic Monkeys (Photo: Live4ever Media)
Bastille enjoyed a boost in sales during the festive week while Arctic Monkeys have also climbed once more on a UK Record Store Chart which is dominated again at the business end by Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow.
Arctic Monkeys are up one place from last week to #2 with their 2013 LP ‘AM‘, and further back Bastille rise to no.13 thanks to their debut effort ‘Bad Blood‘.
The UK Record Store Chart was launched midway through 2012 and is compiled entirely from sales registered at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music outlets.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ Robbie Williams – ‘Swing Both Ways’
2/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
3/ Gary Barlow – ‘Since I Saw You Last’
4/ Ellie Goulding – ‘Halcyon’
5/ Beyonce – ‘Beyonce’
6/ London Grammar – ‘If You Wait’
7/ One Direction – ‘Midnight Memories’
8/ Olly Murs – ‘Right Place, Right Time’
9/ Michael Buble – ‘To Be Loved’
10/ Rod Stewart – ‘Time’
11/ Jake Bugg – ‘Shangri La’
12/ The Killers – ‘Direct Hits’
13/ Bastille – ‘Bad Blood’
14/ Mumford & Sons – ‘Babel’
15/ John Grant – ‘Pale Green Ghosts’
16/ Elvis Presley – ‘The Nation’s Favourite Elvis Songs’
17/ Celine Dion – ‘Loved Me Back To Life’
18/ Emeli Sande – ‘Our Version Of Events’
19/ Eminem – ‘The Marshal Mathers LP II’
20/ Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
