Arlo Parks at number one on UK Record Store Chart with My Soft Machine


Photo of Arlo Parks live at the 2023 BBC 6 Music Festival (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

Arlo Parks live at the 2023 BBC 6 Music Festival (Gary Mather for Live4ever)

It’s Arlo Parks’ follow-up to the Mercury-winning Collapsed In Sunbeams.

Arlo Parks‘ second studio album My Soft Machine is at number one on the latest UK Record Store Chart.

Demob Happy and Sparks are among the other Top 10 new entries, while Alison Goldfrapp has a third week in the Top 20 courtesy of The Love Invention.




It was in 2012 when The Official Charts Company began reflecting the surge in vinyl sales around the UK by compiling the UK Record Store Chart from general sales figures collected at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.



UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:

1/ (new) Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine
2/ (new) Simply Red – Time
3/ (new) Guvna B – The Village Is On Fire
4/ (new) Demob Happy – Divine Machines
5/ (new) Rhoda Dakar – Version Girl
6/ (new) Sparks – The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
7/ (new) Thrice – The Artist In The Ambulance
8/ Charli XCX – True Romance
9/ (new) The Waterboys – A Rock In The Weary Land
10/ Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent
11/ Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden
12/ Lucy Dacus – Historian
13/ (new) Candi Staton – I’m Just A Prisoner
14/ (new) Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
15/ (new) Pozi – Smiling Pools
16/ (new) Britney Spears – Greatest Hits My Prerogative
17/ Overmono – Good Lies
18/ (new) T-Rex – Whatever Happened To The Teenage Dream
19/ Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention
20/ (new) Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy


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