Franz Ferdinand have proved to be the most popular new release of the past seven days at the UK’s leading independent record stores.
The band are at number one on the UK Record Store Chart thanks to their long-awaited new album ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action‘, and lead a raft of new entries inside the Top 10 which includes Bob Dylan, Belle & Sebastian and Avenged Sevenfold among others.
Further back, after a week’s absence Queens Of The Stone Age return to the Top 20 with ‘…Like Clockwork‘, and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes land at #15 with their new, self-titled LP.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ Franz Ferdinand – ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action’
2/ Newton Faulkner – ‘Studio Zoo’
3/ Bob Dylan – ‘Another Self Portrait: 1969-1971’
4/ Belle & Sebastian – ‘The Third Eye Centre’
5/ King Krule – ’6 Feet Beneath The Moon’
6/ Money – ‘The Shadow Of Heaven’
7/ Avenged Sevenfold – ‘Hail To The King’
8/ Forest Swords – ‘Engravings’
9/ Drenge – ‘Drenge’
10/ The Civil Wars – ‘The Civil Wars’
11/ Laura Veirs – ‘Warp & Weft’
12/ Foy Vance – ‘Joy Of Nothing’
13/ Fuck Buttons – ‘Slow Focus’
14/ Fisherman’s Friends – ‘One & All’
15/ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes – ‘Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes’
16/ Daft Punk – ‘Random Access Memories’
17/ Naughty Boy – ‘Hotel Cabana’
18/ Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘…Like Clockwork’
19/ Ellie Goulding – ‘Halcyon’
20/ Pink Floyd – ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’
