Glass Animals straight in at number one on UK Record Store Chart with Dreamland

Glass Animals have gone straight in at number one on the UK Record Store Chart with Dreamland.

It pushes last week’s #1 – A Hero’s Death from Fontaines D.C. – down one place, while Pixies and Stand Atlantic are also new in the Top 5. Elsewhere, Phoebe Bridgers is back in the Top 20 courtesy of Punisher.

The Official Charts Company launched the UK Record Store Chart in 2012 to reflect the last decade’s drive to support independent music outlets and the concurrent surge in vinyl sales. It is compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.

UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:

1 – (new) Glass Animals – Dreamland
2 – Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
3 – Saint Etienne – Words And MusicT
4 – (new) Pixies – Bossa Nova
5 – (new) Stand Atlantic – Pink Elephant
6 – (new) Benedetti/LPO/Jurowski – Elgar/Violin Concerto
7 – (new) Willie J Healey – Twin Heavy
8 – (new) The Stooges – Live At Goose Lake
9 – (new) Deep Purple – Whoosh
10 – (new) James Molina – Eight Gates
11 – (new) Billy Nomates – Billy Nomates
12 – JARV IS… – Beyond The Pale
13 – (new) Beloved – Happiness
14 – Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
15 – Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter
16 – (new) Leila Moss – Who The Power
17 – Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
18 – Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel
19 – Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters
20 – (new) Washed Out – Purple Noon