Pixies live in London (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
Special releases from the likes of David Bowie, Pixies and Oasis helped last month’s Record Store Day achieve the best ever sales figures since the initiative was first launched in 2008.
“The statistics continue to show Record Store Day going from strength to strength, but the stats only tell part of the story,” Record Store Day’s UK co-ordinator Spencer Hickman remarks.
A 30% year-on-year increase was achieved in April, with Pixies’ ‘Indie Cindy‘ the best selling Record Store Day album and David Bowie’s ‘Rock n Roll Suicide‘ the top single. A special glow-in-the-dark vinyl of the Ghostbusters official soundtrack also proved popular, as did Oasis’ re-released debut single ‘Supersonic‘ and the Tame Impala live cut ‘Live Versions‘.
“Record Store Day is ultimately about record store culture, the committed music fans who run indie record shops and the music fans who queue from early in the morning to get their hands on the music they love and enjoy this one-day celebration of music’s grassroots,” Hickman concludes.
Top 10 Record Store Day 2014 Albums:
1/ Pixies – ‘Indie Cindy’
2/ Ray Parker Jr. – ‘Ghostbusters OST’
3/ Tame Impala – ‘Live Versions’
4/ Adam & The Ants – ‘Dirk Wears White Sox’
5/ The Pogues – ‘Live With Joe Strummer’
6/ Ramones – ‘Meltdown With The Ramones’
7/ Green Day – ‘Demolicious’
8/ Sex Pistols – ‘Never Mind The Bollocks… – Alternative’
9/ Gil Scott-Heron – ‘Nothing New’
10/ T Rex – ‘Tanx’
Top 10 Record Store Day 2014 Singles:
1/ David Bowie – ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide’
2/ Oasis – ‘Supersonic’
3/ Nirvana – ‘Pennyroyal Tea’
4/ Bruce Springsteen – ‘American Beauty’
5/ One Direction – ‘Midnight Memories’
6/ Joy Division – ‘An Ideal For Living’
7/ Jake Bugg – ‘There’s a Beast And We All Feed It’
8/ The Stranglers – ‘Peaches’
9/ The Specials – ‘Sock It To Em JB’
10/ Damon Albarn – ‘Hollow Ponds’