The new Bat For Lashes album Lost Girls has debuted at number one on the UK Record Store Chart.
Mahalia and Iggy Pop also contribute to an entirely new Top 3, with Echo & The Bunnymen, Kindness and Arab Strap some more new names on the chart this week.
It was in 2012 when the Official Charts Company began acknowledging the comeback of vinyl which first started over a decade ago with Record Store Day by publishing a weekly Record Store Chart compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1 – (new) Bat For Lashes – Lost Girls
2 – (new) Mahalia – Love And Compromise
3 – (new) Iggy Pop – Free
4 – Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
5 – The S.L.P. – The S.L.P.
6 – Bon Iver – i,i
7 – (new) My Life Story – World Citizen
8 – (new) Echo & The Bunnymen – The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983
9 – (new) Status Quo – Backbone
10 – (new) Tinariwen – Amadjar
11 – Oh Sees – Face Stabber
12 – Oasis – Definitely Maybe
13 – (new) L’epee – Diabolique
14 – The Murder Capital – When I Have Fears
15 – (new) Miles Davis – Rubberband
16 – Thom Yorke – ANIMA
17 – (new) Black Star Riders – Another State Of Grace
18 – (new) Chrissie Hynde/Valve Bone Woe – Valve Bone Woe
19 – (new) Kindness – Something Like A War
20 – (new) Arab Strap – The Week Never Starts Round Here
