Rex Orange Country are at number one ahead of Franz Ferdinand on the latest chart.
Franz Ferdinand’s Hits To The Head compilation is one of the highest new entry on the UK Record Store Chart.
More debuts this week come from Boo Radleys with Keep On With Falling and The Weather Station’s How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars, while Sam Fender is back inside the Top 20 with his blockbuster second album Seventeen Going Under.
A decade ago, The Official Charts Company began compiling the UK Record Store Chart to reflect the boom in vinyl sales which had begun during the previous decade. Its figures are taken from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ (new) Rex Orange County – Who Cares
2/ (new) Franz Ferdinand – Hits To The Head
3/ (new) Bryan Adams – So Happy It Hurts
4/ (new) Thomas Headon – Victoria
5/ (new) The Mysterines – Reeling
6/ (new) Ghost – Impera
7/ (new) The Shires – 10 Year Plan
8/ (new) Bodega – Broken Equipment
9/ (new) Boo Radleys – Keep On With Falling
10/ (new) Ella Henderson – Everything I Didn’t Say
11/ (new) The Weather Station – How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars
12/ (new) A Place To Bury Strangers – See Through You
13/ Central Cee – 23
14/ Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under
15/ The Coral – The Coral
16/ (new) Samana – All One Breath
17/ Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
18/ (new) Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul
19/ Tears For Fears – The Tipping Point
20/ Black Country, New Road – Ants From Up There
