Aldous Harding and Peter Doherty are the new names at the top of the UK Record Store Chart.
Harding leads the way with Designer, while Peter Doherty’s first album with The Puta Madres debuts at #2. There’s new entries further back for Bear’s Den, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Catfish & The Bottlemen and SOAK, while Fontaines D.C. remain in the Top 10 with Dogrel.
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) Adlous Harding – Designer
2 – (new) Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres – Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres
3 – (new) Ezra Collective – You Can’t Steal My joy
4 – (new) Kevin Morby – Oh My God
5 – (new) Local Natives – Violet Street
6 – (new) Bear’s Den – So That You Might Hear Me
7 – (new) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies
8 – Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel
9 – Fat White Family – Serfs Up!
10 – (new) Billie Marten – Feeding Seahorses By Hand
11 – (new) John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Wedding Album
12 – (new) Catfish & The Bottlemen – The Balance
13 – (new) SOAK – Grim Town
14 – Jade Bird – Jade Bird
15 – (new) Josefin Ohrn & The Liberation – Sacred Dreams
16 – Loyle Carner – Not Waving But Drowning
17 – The Chemical Brothers – No Geography
18 – Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
19 – Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go
20 – (new) JJ Cale – Stay Around
