Arctic Monkeys have independent record shops’ biggest selling album of past year

Arctic Monkeys‘ runaway success story ‘AM‘ has been revealed as the biggest selling album in the UK’s independent record shops during the past twelve months.

The Official Charts Company has released the figures to mark tomorrow’s (April 19th) Record Store Day celebrations, with the chart reflecting sales since Record Store Day 2013 a year ago.

One place behind Arctic Monkeys is Daft Punk‘s ‘Random Access Memories‘, while David Bowie‘s ‘The Next Day‘ – the top seller during the last calendar year – is in 15th place.

All the weekly Record Store Charts can be revisited on Live4ever right here.

Official Record Store Chart (12 months to April 2014), Top 20:

1/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
2/ Daft Punk – ‘Random Access Memories’
3/ Robbie Williams – ‘Swing Both Ways’
4/ London Grammar – ‘If You Wait’
5/ Queens Of The Stone Age – ‘…Like Clockwork’
6/ Gary Barlow – ‘Since I Saw You Last’
7/ Rod Stewart – ‘Time’
8/ The National – ‘Trouble Will Find Me’
9/ One Direction – ‘Midnight Memories’
10/ Ellie Goulding – ‘Halcyon’
11/ Boards Of Canada- ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’
12/ Vampire Weekend – ‘Modern Vampires Of The City’
13/ Savages – ‘Silence Yourself’
14/ Mumford & Sons – ‘Babel’
15/ David Bowie – ‘The Next Day’
16/ Bastille – ‘Bad Blood’
17/ Olly Murs – ‘Right Time, Right Place’
18/ John Grant – ‘Pale Green Ghosts’
19/ Haim – ‘Days Are Gone’
20/ Jake Bugg – ‘Jake Bugg’