Run The Jewels are at number one on the UK Record Store Chart after the vinyl release of their fourth album RTJ4.
Elsewhere, Doves drop from the top spot to #4 on the latest chart with their comeback album The Universal Want, while Fontaines D.C. have another week in the Top 20 courtesy of A Hero’s Death.
The Official Charts Company launched the UK Record Store Chart in 2012 to reflect the last decade’s drive to support independent music outlets and the concurrent surge in vinyl sales. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1 – (new) Run The Jewels – RTJ4
2 – David Bowie – Young Americans
3 – Osees – Protean Threat
4 – Doves – The Universal Want
5 – (new) Yellow Days – A Day In A Yellow Beat
6 – (new) Charli XCX – How I’m Feeling Now
7 – (new) Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets – Live At The Roundhouse
8 – Taylor Swift – Folklore
9 – (new) Yusuf Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman 2
10 – (new) Ryan Hamilton/Harlequin Ghosts – Nowhere To Go But Everywhere
11 – (new) Tim Koh – In Your Dreams
12 – (new) Young Knives – Barbarians
13 – (new) Knuckle Puck – 20/20
14 – (new) Matt Berry – Phantom Birds
15 – The Flaming Lips – American Head
16 – Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
17 – (new) Neil Young – The Times
18 – Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos
19 – (new) Fenne Lily – Breach
20 – (new) Les Siecles/Roth – Beethoven/Gossec/Sym No 5/Sym A 17
