Arctic Monkeys (Photo: Todd Howe for Live4ever)
Sales on the vinyl format in the UK have now gone past the 1m mark for the first time since 1996.
Popular vinyl releases from the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Oasis and Jack White, coupled with ongoing campaigns led by Record Store Day, had already set 2014 sales figures on an impressive course, but they were given a significant helping hand earlier this month thanks to the release of Pink Floyd‘s ‘The Endless River‘, which is now already the third best selling album on the format this year and could help push sales beyond 1.2m – something not achieved since the Britpop peak of 1995.
“In scoring the biggest opening week for a vinyl album this millennium, Pink Floyd’s The Endless River illustrates the British public’s renewed love for this format, which is on course to become a £20 million business this year – an incredible turnaround from barely £3 million just five years ago,” Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, has said. “This resurgence also underlines music fans’ continuing fascination with the album.”
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Top 10 UK best selling albums of 2014 (vinyl):
1/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
2/ Jack White – ‘Lazaretto’
3/ Pink Floyd – ‘The Endless River’
4/ Royal Blood – ‘Royal Blood’
5/ Oasis – ‘Definitely Maybe’
6/ The Stone Roses – ‘The Stone Roses’
7/ Pink Floyd – ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’
8/ Led Zeppelin – ‘Led Zeppelin’
9/ Led Zeppelin – ‘Led Zeppelin III’
10/ Led Zeppelin – ‘Led Zeppelin II’