Christine Lai
Mac DeMarco has entered at number one on the UK Record Store Chart with Here Comes The Cowboy.
Vampire Weekend aren’t far behind, sitting at #3 on their second week in the chart with Father Of The Bride, while Fontaines D.C. are back in the Top 10 with their debut album Dogrel. Elsewhere, Clinic debut at #15 courtesy of their new album Wheeltappers & Shunters.
It was in 2012 when the Official Charts Company began acknowledging the comeback of vinyl which first started over a decade ago with Record Store Day by publishing a weekly Record Store Chart compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1 – (new) Mac DeMarco – Here Comes The Cowboy
2 – Viagra Boys – Street Worms
3 – Vampire Weekend – Father Of The Bride
4 – (new) Skints – Swimming Lessons
5 – (new) Rosie Lowe – Yu
6 – Big Thief – U.F.O.F.
7 – Adlous Harding – Designer
8 – (new) Daddy Long Legs – Lowdown Ways
9 – Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel
10 – James Blake – Assume Form
11 – (new) Whitesnake – Flesh & Blood
12 – Fat White Family – Serfs Up!
13 – (new) Death & Vanilla – Are You A Dreamer
14 – (new) Holly Herndon – Proto
15 – (new) Clinic – Wheeltappers & Shunters
16 – Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – End Of Suffering
17 – Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go
18 – (new) Charly Bliss – Young Enough
19 – (new) AJR – Neotheater
20 – Loyle Carner – Not Waving But Drowning