Noel Gallagher, Adele dominated the UK’s vinyl market in 2015


Noel Gallagher (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Noel Gallagher (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)

Unsurprisingly, Adele‘s ‘25‘ has been revealed as the top selling album in the UK on vinyl last year, while Noel Gallagher‘s universal appeal on the format has also been laid to bare.

The Official Charts Company has been releasing sales data from 2015 all this week, and has now got to the booming vinyl market where the likes of The Stone Roses, Royal Blood and Arctic Monkeys have joined Adele and Gallagher in the Top 10 albums list.




And the former Oasis man dominated the vinyl singles market last year, with all five of his ‘Chasing Yesterday‘ singles in the Top 10, of which four lead the way all on their own.

UK’s best selling albums of 2015 (vinyl):

1/ Adele – ’25’
2/ Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’
3/ The Stone Roses – ‘The Stone Roses’
4/ Ed Sheeran – ‘x’
5/ Guardians Of The Galaxy OST – Awesome Mix 1
6/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
7/ Royal Blood – ‘Royal Blood’
8/ Pink Floyd – ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’
9/ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Chasing Yesterday’
10/ Nirvana – ‘Unplugged In New York’

UK’s best selling singles of 2015 (vinyl):

1/ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘The Dying Of The Light’
2/ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Riverman’
3/ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Lock All The Doors’
4/ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Ballad Of The Mighty I’
5/ Blur – ‘Y’All Doomed’
6/ David Bowie – ‘Young Americans’
7/ David Bowie – ‘Changes’
8/ Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘In The Heat Of The Moment’
9/ David Bowie – ‘Fame’
10/ David Bowie – ‘Space Oddity’


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