Childhood‘s ‘Lacuna‘ has topped the UK Record Store Chart, just ahead of The Gaslight Anthem‘s latest album ‘Get Hurt‘.
Further new Top 10 entries come this week from FKA Twigs and Sinead O’Connor, while Jack White‘s second solo LP ‘Lazaretto‘ is still going strong at #5.
The UK Record Store Chart was launched in 2012 in conjunction with that year’s Record Store Day initiative and is compiled entirely from sales registered at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music outlets.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ Childhood – ‘Lacuna’
2/ The Gaslight Anthem – ‘Get Hurt’
3/ FKA Twigs – ‘LP 1’
4/ Ed Sheeran – ‘x’
5/ Jack White – ‘Lazaretto’
6/ Jungle – ‘Jungle’
7/ George Ezra – ‘Wanted On Voyage’
8/ Eric Clapton – ‘Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze’
9/ Sinead O’Connor – ‘I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss’
10/ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – ‘Hypnotic Eye’
11/ Nicola Benedetti – ‘Homecoming’
12/ Paloma Faith – ‘A Perfect Contradiction’
13/ King Creosote – ‘From Scotland With Love’
14/ War On Drugs – ‘Lost In The Dream’
15/ Morrissey – ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business’
16/ Dolly Parton – ‘Blue Smoke: The Best Of’
17/ Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
18/ Sam Smith – ‘In The Lonely Hour’
19/ Lana Del Rey – ‘Ultraviolence’
20/ Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey – ‘Going Back Home’