First Aid Kit’s Ruins leads UK Record Store Chart


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First Aid Kit live at the Manchester Apollo (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)




First Aid Kit have gone in at number one on the UK Record Store Chart with their latest album Ruins.

With 2018 kicking into gear, a host of new entries are on the Top 20 this week, these including The Go! Team, tUnE-yArDs, Starcrawler, Gary Numan and The Shins.

For the past few years, the Official Charts Company has been using the Record Store Chart to showcase the best selling weekly albums from 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.

UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:

1 – (new) First Aid Kit – Ruins
2 – (new) The Go! Team – Semicircle
3 – (new) Xcerts – Hold On To Your Heart
4 – (new) Liminanas – Shadow People
5 – Shame – Songs Of Praise
6 – (new) tUnE-yArDs – I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
7 – (new) Starcrawler – Starcrawler
8 – (new) Fall Out Boy – M A N I A
9 – This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze
10 – (new) Gary Numan – Dance
11 – (new) Shopping – The Official Body
12 – The Barr Brothers – Queens Of The Breakers
13 – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Wrong Creatures
14 – The Skids – Burning Cities
15 – Radiohead – OK Computer
16 – (new) The Shins – The Worms Heart
17 – Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
18 – Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
19 – The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
20 – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Who Built The Moon?


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