The Wombats and Franz Ferdinand are the highest new entries on this week’s UK Record Store Chart.
The pair’s latest studio albums Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life and Always Ascending debut at #1 and #2 respectively, with more new Top 10 entries coming from Brian Fallon, Ezra Furman and MGMT.
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) The Wombats – Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life
2 – (new) Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
3 – (new) Joan As Police Woman – Damned Devotion
4 – (new) Brian Fallon – Sleepwalkers
5 – (new) Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus
6 – Hookworms – Microshift
7 – (new) MGMT – Little Dark Age
8 – Nils Frahm – All Melody
9 – (new) Gogo Penguin – A Humdrum Star
10 – Field Music – Open Here
11 – First Aid Kit – Ruins
12 – Django Django – Marble Skies
13 – (new) Will Varley – Spirit Of Minnie
14 – Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
15 – (new) Moby – Play: The B-Sides
16 – Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
17 – Shame – Songs Of Praise
18 – Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
19 – Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa – Black Coffee
20 – Dream Wife – Dream Wife
