Young Fathers score high new entry on UK Record Store Chart


Press photo of Young Fathers by Jordan Hemmingway

Young Fathers by Jordan Hemmingway

Young Fathers are on their fourth studio album.

Young Fathers have scored a high new entry on the UK Record Store Chart which this week is topped by Raye’s My 21st Century Blues.

Heavy Heavy is one place back, while The WAEVE‘s self-titled debut lands at #4 and Fucked Up are back in the Top 20 courtesy of One Day.




It was in 2012 when The Official Charts Company began reflecting the surge in vinyl sales around the UK by compiling the UK Record Store Chart from general sales figures collected at 100 of Britain’s leading independent music shops.

UK Record Store Chart, Top 20:

1/ (new) Raye – My 21st Century Blues
2/ (new) Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy
3/ (new) Shania Twain – Queen Of Me
4/ (new) The WAEVE – The WAEVE
5/ (new) Two Door Cinema Club – Keep On Smiling
6/ (new) Somebody’s Child – Somebody’s Child
7/ (new) No Devotion – No Oblivion
8/ OFF – Free LSD
9/ (new) The Go! Team – Get Up Sequences Pt 2
10/ (new) M(H)AOL – Attachment Styles
11/ (new) Doomsday Outlaw – Damaged Goods
12/ Mick Fleetwood & Friends – Celebrate The Music Of Peter Green
13/ SYML – The Day My Father Died
14/ (new) Sinfonia Of London/Wilson – Williams/Howells/Delius/Elgar
15/ Fucked Up – One Day
16/ Cavetown – Worm Food
17/ The Reytons – What’s Rock And Roll
18/ The Murder Capital – Gigi’s Recovery
19/ Belle & Sebastian – Late Developers
20/ The Men – New York City


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