Sufjan Stevens beats The Prodigy to top UK Record Store Chart


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The Prodigy went straight in at number one on the main rundown yesterday with ‘The Day Is My Enemy‘, but they’ve been kept off the top spot on this week’s UK Record Store Chart by Sufjan Stevens.

Stevens is at #1 with ‘Carrie & Lowell‘, ahead of plenty more new entries inside the Top 20 from the likes of Circa Waves, Godspeed You Black Emperor and The Go! Team.




The UK Record Store Chart is compiled entirely from sales registered at Britain’s leading independent music outlets.

UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:

1/ (new) Sufjan Stevens – ‘Carrie & Lowell’
2/ (new) The Prodigy – ‘The Day Is My Enemy’
3/ Courtney Barnett – ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’
4/ (new) Circa Waves – ‘Young Chasers’
5/ (new) Godspeed You Black Emperor – ‘Asunder Sweet and Other Distress’
6/ Bjork – ‘Vulnicura’
7/ Laura Marling – ‘Short Movie’
8/ James Bay – ‘Chaos and The Calm’
9/ (new) Ryley Walker – ‘Primrose Green’
10/ Seasick Steve – ‘Sonic Soul Surfer’
11/ Mark Knopfler – ‘Tracker’
12/ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Chasing Yesterday’
13/ Matthew E White – ‘Fresh Blood’
14/ The Staves – ‘If I Was’
15/ Public Service Broadcasting – ‘The Race For Space’
16/ Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
17/ (new) Steve Hackett – ‘Wolflight’
18/ (new) The Go! Team – ‘The Scene Between’
19/ Ed Sheeran – ‘x’
20/ The Cribs – ‘For All My Sisters’


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