Temples (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
Temples‘ debut album ‘Sun Structures‘ is at number one on this week’s UK Record Store Chart, displacing Bombay Bicycle Club who drop to #3 with ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow‘.
Elsewhere Broken Bells, Maximo Park, Mogwai and London Grammar also retain places inside the Top 10, while the publicity surrounding Queen‘s first Greatest Hits collection becoming the first album in the UK to sell more than six million copies appears to have sparked some renewed interest – the compilation is at #23 this week.
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/ Temples – ‘Sun Structures’
2/ Katy B – ‘Little Red’
3/ Bombay Bicycle Club – ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’
4/ Maximo Park – ‘Too Much Information’
5/ Mogwai – ‘Rave Tapes’
6/ London Grammar – ‘If You Wait’
7/ Cheatahs – ‘Cheatahs’
8/ Broken Bells – ‘After The Disco’
9/ Rosanne Cash – ‘The River & The Thread’
10/ Sun Kil Moon – ‘Benji’
11/ Tinariwen – ‘Emmaar’
12/ Warpaint – ‘Warpaint’
13/ Bruce Springsteen – ‘High Hopes’
14/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
15/ Disclosure – ‘Settle’
16/ Neil Finn – Dizzy Heights’
17/ Seth Lakeman – ‘Word Of Mouth’
18/ Marissa Nadler – ‘July’
19/ Ellie Goulding – ‘Halcyon’
20/ The Gaslight Anthem – ‘The B-Sides’