Let’s Eat Grandma are leading eight new entries in the Top 10 of the latest UK Record Store Chart.
Releases from the likes of Florence & The Machine, David Bowie and Gorillaz are also new in the Top 10, with Johnny Marr’s Call The Comet at #10.
For the past few years, the Official Charts Company has been using the Record Store Chart to showcase the best selling weekly albums from 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1 – (new) Let’s Eat Grandma – I’m All Ears
2 – (new) Florence & The Machine – High As Hope
3 – (new) Gorillaz – The Now Now
4 – (new) David Bowie – Christiane F OST
5 – (new) John Coltrane – Both Directions At Once
6 – (new) Alarm – Equals
7 – Kamasi Washington – Heaven & Earth
8 – (new) Guns N Roses – Appetite For Destruction
9 – (new) David Bowie – Welcome To The Blackout
10 – Johnny Marr – Call The Comet
11 – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
12 – George Ezra – Staying At Tamara’s
13 – Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
14 – Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
15 – Wire – Pink Flag
16 – (new) Gwenifer Raymond – You Never Were Much Of A Dancer
17 – Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
18 – (new) Ray Davies – Americana Act 2
19 – (new) Jim James – Uniform Distortion
20 – Lump – Lump
Considering hey were giving away a free extra four track disc only if you bought your copy in a record shop – one being the much sought after radio edit of “Welcome To The Treehouse” which otherwise cost £20 to buy on vinyl (if you could find it!) – perhaps not too surprising it reached No.1 in the record store charts.
It’s called chart manipulation.