It’s Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes who are at number one right now on the UK Record Store Chart.
Carter pushes The xx down one place with Modern Ruin, while Run The Jewels‘ storming new album is new at #3 and Mike Oldfield also enters the Top 5.
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) Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Modern Ruin
2/ The xx – I See You
3/ (new) Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 3
4/ Rick Wakeman – Piano Portraits
5/ (new) Mike Oldfield – Return To Ommadawn
6/ Bonobo – Migration
7/ The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome
8/ David Bowie – Blackstar
9/ (new) Menace Beach – Lemon Memory
10/ (new) Michael Chapman – 50
11/ Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
12/ (new) WSTR – Red Green Or Inbetween
13/ The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody
14/ (new) Courtney Marie Andrews – Honest Life
15/ A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service
16/ (new) Foxygen – Hang
17/ (new) Proper Ornaments – Foxhole
18/ Christine & The Queens – Chaleur Humaine
19/ (new) Pink Floyd – The Final Cut
20/ (new) Loyle Carner – Yesterday’s Gone