Tom Odell is leading the UK Record Store Chart with his new LP ‘Wrong Crowd‘.
Augustines are a high new entry too and sit at #2 with ‘This Is Your Life‘, Spring King land at #17 with their debut album ‘Tell Me If You Like To‘.
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) Tom Odell – ‘Wrong Crowd’
2/ (new) Augustines – ‘This Is Your Life’
3/ Paul Simon – ‘Stranger To Stranger’
4/ (new) Band Of Horses – ‘Why Are You OK’
5/ (new) Rick Astley – ’50’
6/ (new) Garbage – ‘Strange Little Birds’
7/ Whitney – ‘Light Upon The Lake’
8/ (new) Paul McCartney – ‘Pure McCartney’
9/ The Kills – ‘Ash & Ice’
10/ Minor Victories – ‘Minor Victories’
11/ The Beach Boys – ‘Pet Sounds’
12/ (new) Rival Sons – ‘Hollow Bones’
13/ (new) Motorhead – ‘Clean Your Clock’
14/ (new) The Stone Roses – ‘The Very Best Of’
15/ Parquet Courts – ‘Human Performance’
16/ Catfish & The Bottlemen – ‘The Ride’
17/ (new) Spring King – ‘Tell Me If You Like To’
18/ Dexys – ‘Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul’
19/ (new) Colvin & Earle – ‘Colvin & Earle’
20/ (new) Van Morrison – ‘It’s Too Late To Stop Now: Vols 2, 3 & 4’