Mogwai top UK Record Store Chart with As The Love Continues

Mogwai are also at number one on the main UK chart.

Mogwai have topped the UK Record Store Chart with their new album As The Love Continues.

It leads an entirely new Top 5, made up of other debuts from Tindersticks, Grandaddy, Ricky Warwick and The Hold Steady, whilst Fleet Foxes remain at #12 after the physical release of Shore.

It’s now nine years since The Official Charts Company launched this chart as vinyl sales surged during the last decade, a trend which continued in 2020 as the format grew for the 13th consecutive year. 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) Mogwai – As The Love Continues
2/ (new) Tindersticks – Distractions
3/ (new) Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump On A Wooden Piano
4/ (new) Ricky Warwick – When Life Was Hard And Fast
5/ (new) The Hold Steady – Open Door Policy
6/ Arlo Parks – Collapsed In Sunbeams
7/ Michael Price – Eternal Beauty OST
8/ (new) Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
9/ (new) Psymon Spine – Charismatic Megafauna
10/ Rina Sawayama – Sawayama
11/ Pale Waves – Who Am I?
12/ Fleet Foxes – Shore
13/ Django Django – Glowing In The Dark
14/ Claud – Super Monster
15/ Foo Fighters – Medicine At Midnight
16/ Black Country, New Road – For the first time
17/ Neil Young – The Times
18/ Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club
19/ (new) Whitney K – Two Years
20/ (new) Anti-Flag – For Blood And Empire