Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds @ Liverpool Echo Arena. April 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Noel Gallagher has moved back up to number one on the UK Record Store Chart.
Gallagher’s latest solo record Who Built The Moon? regains the top spot after one week from U2, whose Songs Of Experience LP is down to #7. As the year winds down, the only new release in the Top 20 comes from Yung Lean.
Since 2012, the UK Record Store Chart has been charting the best selling albums sold at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1 – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Who Built The Moon?
2 – Ed Sheeran – Divide
3 – (new) Yung Lean – Stranger
4 – Roy Orbison/RPO – A Love So Beautiful
5 – Sam Smith – The Thrill Of It All
6 – Paloma Faith – The Architect
7 – U2 – Songs Of Experience
8 – Bjork – Utopia
9 – Pink – Beautiful Trauma
10 – Rag N Bone Man – Human
11 – Gregory Porter – Nat King Cole & Me
12 – Michael Ball & Alfie Boe – Together Again
13 – Elvis Presley – Christmas With Elvis And The RPO
14 – Elton John – Diamonds
15 – LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
16 – The Rolling Stones – On Air
17 – Liam Gallagher – As You Were
18 – George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice
19 – Elbow – The Best Of
20 – Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice