Elbow at the Manchester Apollo (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Elbow‘s new album Giants Of All Sizes is holding the top position on the UK Record Store Chart.
It leads another busy spell of new releases on the chart, with the Top 5 comprised of new entries from, along with Elbow, Richard Dawson, Allah-Lahs, Big Thief and Kim Gordon.
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) Elbow – Giants Of All Sizes
2 – (new) Richard Dawson – 2020
3 – (new) Allah-Lahs- LAHS
4 – (new) Big Thief – Two Hands
5 – (new) Kim Gordon – No Home Record
6 – Portico Quartet – Memory Streams
7 – (new) Lilac Time – Return To Us
8 – The Beatles – Abbey Road
9 – (new) 808 State – Transmission Suite
10 – Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
11 – (new) Bodega – Shiny New Model
12 – (new) Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter
13 – FEET – What’s Inside Is More Than Just Ham
14 – (new) David Bowie – VH1 Storytellers
15 – Temples – Hot Motion
16 – (new) The Wedding Present – George Best
17 – Richard Hawley – Lady’s Bridge
18 – Wilco – Ode To Joy
19 – (new) Gary Numan & Tubeway Army – Replicas
20 – (new) Starcrawler – Devour You
