Metronomy lead Sam Fender on latest UK Record Store Chart


Metronomy Forever




Metronomy have taken the top spot on the latest UK Record Store Chart with Metronomy Forever.

Although currently leading the UK’s main chart rundown, Sam Fender has to settle for second place here with his debut album Hypersonic Missiles, while more new entries from Pixies, Belle And Sebastian and Gruff Rhys complete the Top 5.

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) Metronomy – Metronomy Forever
2 – (new) Sam Fender – Hypersonic Missiles
3 – (new) Pixies – Beneath The Eyrie
4 – (new) Belle And Sebastian – Days Of The Bagnold Summer
5 – (new) Gruff Rhys – Pang
6 – (new) Stereolab – Dots And Loops
7 – (new) My Life Story – World Citizen
8 – Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
9 – Bat For Lashes – Lost Girls
10 – (new) Stereolab – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
11 – Bon Iver – i,i
12 – (new) Utopia Night – The Utopia Night
13 – (new) Chelsea Wolfe – Birth Of Violence
14 – (new) Emeli Sande – Real Life
15 – Oasis – Definitely Maybe
16 – (new) Devendra Banhart – Ma
17 – Iggy Pop – Free
18 – Echo & The Bunnymen – The John Peel Sessions 1979-1983
19 – Prince – The Versace Experience
20 – Status Quo – Backbone


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