Linkin Park are on top of this week’s UK Record Store Album Chart, pushing previous chart topper Can down one place to #2.
‘Living Things‘ has proved to be the most popular new release in the UK’s independent record stores, while Jack White‘s ‘Blunderbuss‘ has jumped nine places to #3 after a storming live performance at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend.
Elsewhere, Alabama Shakes‘ ‘Boys and Girls‘ continues to hold strong in the top ten on its twelfth week on the chart, and a remastered edition of David Bowie‘s classic ‘Ziggy Stardust‘ album has re-entered the chart at no.14.
UK Record Store Album Chart, Top 20:
1/ Linkin Park – ‘Living Things’
2/ Can – ‘The Lost Tapes’
3/ Jack White – ‘Blunderbuss’
4/ Hot Chip – ‘In Our Heads’
5/ Alabama Shakes – ‘Boys and Girls’
6/ The Levellers – ‘Static On The Airwaves’
7/ Beach House – ‘Bloom’
8/ The Beachwood Sparks – ‘The Tarnished Gold’
9/ Smashing Pumpkins – ‘Oceania’
10/ Amy McDonald – ‘Life In a Beautiful Light’
11/ Go-Kart Mozart – ‘Are On The Hot Dog Streets’
12/ Patti Smith – ‘Banga’
13/ Paloma Faith – ‘Fall To Grace’
14/ David Bowie – ‘The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars’
15/ Maroon 5 – ‘Overexposed’
16/ Emeli Sande – ‘Our Version Of Events’
17/ Dexys – ‘One Day I’m Going To Soar’
18/ The Tallest Man On Earth – ‘There’s No Leaving Now’
19/ Bobby Womack – ‘The Bravest Man In The Universe’
20/ Metric – ‘Synthetica’