Eric Clapton‘s new album which celebrates the life of JJ Cale, who died last year, has topped the UK Record Store Chart.
‘Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze‘ is immediately ahead of other new entries from Struts and Tom Petty with King Creosote, last week’s number one, at #4.
The Record Store Chart was launched in 2012 and is compiled entirely from sales registered at the UK’s leading independent music outlets.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ Eric Clapton – ‘Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze’
2/ Struts – ‘Everybody Wants’
3/ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – ‘Hypnotic Eye’
4/ King Creosote – ‘From Scotland With Love’
5/ Jungle – ‘Jungle’
6/ Ed Sheeran – ‘x’
7/Jenny Lewis – ‘The Voyager’
8/ Jack White – ‘Lazaretto’
9/ Morrissey – ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business’
10/ Arcade Fire – ‘Reflektor’
11/ Blues Pills – ‘Blues Pills’
12/ George Ezra – ‘Wanted On Voyage’
13/ Manic Street Preachers – ‘Futurology’
14/ La Roux – ‘Trouble In Paradise’
15/ War On Drugs – ‘Lost In The Dream’
16/ Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey – ‘Going Back Home’
17/ Shabazz Palaces – ‘Lese Majesty’
18/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
19/ Coldplay – ‘Ghost Stories’
20/ Dolly Parton – ‘Blue Smoke: The Best Of’