The comprehensive re-release of Bob Dylan and The Band‘s ‘The Basement Tapes‘ has topped this week’s UK Record Store Chart, which is compiled entirely from sales registered at Britain’s leading independent music outlets.
Neil Young‘s ‘Storytone‘ is another high new entry at #2, while The Flaming Lips‘ unique take on ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band‘ also debuts inside the Top 20 this week.
Further back, both Arctic Monkeys and U2 have re-entered the Top 20 thanks to ‘AM‘ and ‘Songs Of Innocence‘ respectively.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ (new) Bob Dylan – ‘The Basement Tapes’
2/ (new) Neil Young – ‘Storytone’
3/ Caribou – ‘Our Love’
4/ (new) Smith Street Band – ‘Throw Me In The River’
5/ (new) Andre Rieu – ‘Love In Venice’
6/ Led Zeppelin – ‘Untitled’ (Led Zeppelin IV)
7/ Ed Sheeran – ‘x’
8/ (new) Damien Rice – ‘My Favourite Faded Fantasy’
9/ (new) Saint Saviour – ‘In The Seams’
10/ Led Zeppelin – ‘Houses Of The Holy’
11/ Annie Lennox – ‘Nostalgia’
12/ Taylor Swift – ‘1989’
13/ (new) Simple Minds – ‘Big Music’
14/ Ben Howard – ‘I Forget Where We Were’
15/ (new) The Flaming Lips – ‘With a Little Help From My Fwends’
16/ George Ezra – ‘Wanted On Voyage’
17/ Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
18/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
19/ (new) Xcerts – ‘There Is Only You’
20/ U2 – ‘Songs Of Innocence’