Radiohead, The Beatles, Liam Gallagher among most albums sold in UK record shops last year


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Thom Yorke with Radiohead headlining the first day of TRNSMT 2017 (Gary Mather / Live4ever

Radiohead, The Beatles and Liam Gallagher have had some of the best selling albums sold in UK record shops during the last year.

The Official Charts Company has been collecting this data since 2012 and, on the eve of the latest Record Store Day, has now published the top sellers since RSD last year.




Radiohead are on top with the reissue of OK Computer, with The Beatles classic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in second place. Liam Gallagher is #8 with As You Were, and his elder brother Noel completes the Top 10 courtesy of Who Built The Moon?.

The top 20 is as follows:

1 – Radiohead – OK Computer
2 – The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
3 – Ed Sheeran – Divide
4 – LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
5 – Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains
6 – Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark?
7 – Rag N Bone Man – Human
8 – Liam Gallagher – As You Were
9 – Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
10 – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Who Built The Moon?
11 – The National – Sleep Well Beast
12 – Arcade Fire – Everything Now
13 – Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
14 – London Grammar – Truth Is A Beautiful Thing
15 – The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
16 – Wolf Alice – Visions Of A Life
17 – David Bowie – Hunky Dory
18 – Gorillaz – Humanz
19 – David Bowie – The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
20 – Mogwai – Every Country’s Run


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