There’s a high new entries from Bob Dylan, Floating Points and The Beatles on this week’s UK Record Store Chart, but it’s the latest posthumous Elvis Presley album ‘If I Can Dream‘ which remains at number one.
Former Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones is also new inside the Top 20 with his ‘West Kirby County Primary‘ solo LP, while Courtney Barnett re-enters with ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit‘.
Launched in 2012, the UK Record Store Chart aims to support traditional music shops and is thus compiled entirely from sales registered at 100 of Britain’s leading independent outlets.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ Elvis Presley – ‘If I Can Dream’
2/ (new) Bob Dylan – ‘The Cutting Edge’
3/ (new) Floating Points – ‘Elaenia’
4/ (new) The Beatles – ‘1’
5/ Rod Stewart – ‘Another Country’
6/ (new) Little Mix – ‘Get Weird’
7/ Joanna Newsom – ‘Divers’
8/ (new) Jamie Woon – ‘Making Time’
9/ (new) Ellie Goulding – ‘Delrium’
10/ (new) Khruangbin – ‘The Universe Smiles Upon You’
11/ Guy Garvey – ‘Courting The Squall’
12/ (new) Bill Ryder-Jones – ‘West Kirby County Primary’
13/ (new) Alexander Armstrong – ‘A Year Of Songs’
14/ John Grant – ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure’
15/ Courtney Barnett – ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit’
16/ Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
17/ British Sea Power – ‘Sea Of Brass’
18/ Jamie Lawson – ‘Jamie Lawson’
19/ Enter Shikari – ‘The Mindsweep’
20/ Roots Manuva – ‘Bleeds’
Lovely to see the king remain where he belongs—at the top of the charts.
I am a fan of Bob Dylan, but I guess not a real one, as I won’t pay the asking price for the 18 disc Cutting Edge release (and I can afford it)! I believe he is mainly about the music but for the past 15 years, generating revenue again and again on the myth, is up there on his agenda too! As for the’King’…even though his estate now generates more money each year since he died than when he was alive…’Thang u verry mush!’