An entirely new Top 5 on the UK Record Store Chart this week, all led by Iggy Pop‘s ‘Post Pop Depression‘ album.
Iggy’s collaboration with producer Josh Homme is immediately ahead of Primal Scream‘s latest record ‘Chaosmosis‘, while Underworld, James and Damien Jurado are also new in the Top 5, with Richmond Fontaine a new entry too at #6.
Launched in conjunction with the Record Store Day celebrations of 2012, the UK Record Store Chart aims to support Britain’s independent music shops and is compiled entirely from sales registered at 100 of those leading outlets.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ (new) Iggy Pop – ‘Post Pop Depression’
2/ (new) Primal Scream – ‘Chaosmosis’
3/ (new) Underworld – ‘Barbara, Barbara We Face a Shining Future’
4/ (new) James – ‘Girl At The End Of The World’
5/ (new) Damien Jurado – ‘Visions Of Us On The Land’
6/ (new) Richmond Fontaine – ‘You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To’
7/ David Bowie – ‘Blackstar’
8/ (new) Meilyr Jones – ‘2013’
9/ Adele – ’25’
10/ Unloved – ‘Guilty Of Love’
11/ The Coral – ‘Distance Inbetween’
12/ (new) Room 94 – ‘Lost Youth’
13/ Steve Mason – ‘Meet The Humans’
14/ The 1975 – ‘I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It’
15/ Jeff Buckley – ‘You and I’
16/ (new) Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie Billy – ‘Epic Jammers & Fortunate Little Ditties’
17/ Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’
18/ Kendrick Lamar – ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
19/ Coldplay – ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’
20/ (new) Magnetic North – ‘Prospect Of Skelmersdale’