Ian Brown fronting the Stone Roses at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium, June 17th 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Ian Brown and The Specials have both scored high new entries, but it’s Busted who lead the current UK Record Store Chart with their comeback album Half Way There.
White Lies, Beirut and Unloved are some of the other acts to get Top 10 debuts, while Sharon Van Etten is at #10 with Remind Me Tomorrow.
For the past few years, the Official Charts Company has been using the Record Store Chart to showcase the best selling weekly albums from 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1 – (new) Busted – Half Way There
2 – (new) Ian Brown – Ripples
3 – (new) The Specials – Encore
4 – (new) Ex Re – Ex Re
5 – (new) Cherry Glazerr – Stuffed & Ready
6 – (new) White Lies – Five
7 – (new) Beirut – Gallipoli
8 – (new) Unloved – Heartbreak
9 – Prefab Sprout – I Trawl The Megahertz
10 – Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
11 – (new) Rustin Man – Drift Code
12 – (new) Andy Burrows & Matt Haig – Reasons To Stay Alive
13 – Bring Me The Horizon – amo
14 – (new) Tiny Ruins – Olympic Girls
15 – The Twilight Sad – It Won/t Be Like This All The Time
16 – TOY – Happy In The Hollow
17 – Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared
18 – Buzzcocks – Love Bites
19 – (new) Within Temptation – Resist
20 – Buzzcocks – Another Music In A Different Kitchen