Roger Deckker
Two Door Cinema Club are at number one on this week’s UK Record Store Chart with their new album False Alarm.
black midi are up to #2 after the release of their debut album Schlagenheim, with new entries from The Raconteurs and Hot Chip, and last week’s chart topper Western Stars from Bruce Springsteen completing the Top 5.
It was in 2012 when the Official Charts Company began acknowledging the comeback of vinyl which first started over a decade ago with Record Store Day by publishing a weekly Record Store Chart compiled from the best selling albums at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.
UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:
1 – (new) Two Door Cinema Club – False Alarm
2 – black midi – Schlagenheim
3 – (new) The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger
4 – (new) Hot Chip – A Bath Full Of Ecstasy
5 – Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars
6 – Kate Tempest – The Book Of Traps And Lessons
7 – Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
8 – (new) Mark Ronson – Late Night Feelings
9 – Bill Callahan – Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest
10 – Foals – Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part One
11 – (new) Jane Weaver – Loops In The Secret Society
12 – (new) Mort Garson – Mother Earth’s Plantasia
13 – (new) Hollywood Vampires – Rise
14 – The Divine Comedy – Office Politics
15 – Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel
16 – Madonna – Madame X
17 – Calexico And Iron & Wine – Years To Burn
18 – (new) Black Pumas – Black Pumas
19 – (new) Prince – Originals
20 – Richard Hawley – Further
