George Ezra is also at number one on the UK’s main album chart.
George Ezra has topped the UK Record Store Chart with his new Gold Rush Kid LP.
Further back, Sinead O’Brien enters at #4 with her debut album Time Bend And Break The Bower while Michael Head is down from #1 last week to #8 with his latest Red Elastic Band record Dear Scott.
A decade ago, The Official Charts Company began compiling the UK Record Store Chart to reflect the boom in vinyl sales which had begun during the previous decade. Its figures are taken from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1/ (new) George Ezra – Gold Rush Kid
2/ (new) Chase & Status – What Came Before
3/ (new) Nick Mulvey – New Mythology
4/ (new) Sinead O’Brien – Time Bend And Break The Bower
5/ (new) Kelly Lee Owens – LP 8
6/ Kylie Minogue – Fever
7/ (new) Michael Monroe – I Live Too Fast To Die Young
8/ Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Dear Scott
9/ (new) Wardruna – Kvitravn First Flight Of The White
10/ Harry Styles – Harry’s House
11/ (new) David Sylvian – Sleepwalkers
12/ (new) Baxter Dury – Mr Maserati 2001-2021
13/ Drive-By Truckers – Welcome 2 Club XIII
14/ Badbadnotgood – IV
15/ (new) Kelley Stoltz – The Stylist
16/ (new) Suki Waterhouse – I Can’t Let Go
17/ (new) Elton John – Madman Across The Water
18/ Angel Olsen – Big Time
19/ (new) Deliluh – Fault Lines
20/ (new) Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – La Panthere Des Neiges OST