As gross sales of vinyl grew for the sixteenth consecutive 12 months within the U.Okay., Taylor Swift and The Beatles reigned supreme.
Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Model) (by way of EMI) was the U.Okay.’s biggest-selling vinyl album of 2023, in keeping with information printed by the Official Charts Firm, shifting 84,700 copies on the format since its launch final October.
The fourth in Swift’s re-recording initiatives blasted to the most important opening week for any album in 2023 (with greater than 184,000 mixed models), and logged three weeks at No. 1 on the Official U.Okay. Albums Chart. Based mostly on midweek information, it’s set to log a fourth when the weekly chart is printed this Friday, Jan. 5.
Swifties love their wax. 1989 (Taylor’s Model) is considered one of three Swift LPs to crack the highest 10 on the Official High 40 best-selling vinyl albums of 2023, forward of Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model) (No. 4) and Midnights (No. 8), whereas one other 5 titles influence the year-end chart: Lover (No. 20), folklore (No. 21), repute (No. 27), evermore (No. 37) and the Document Retailer Day limited-edition launch folklore – The Lengthy Pond Studio Periods (No. 38).
Finishing the rostrum on the U.Okay.’s year-end vinyl albums chart is The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds (Polydor), at No. 2; and Lana Del Rey’s Do you know that there’s a tunnel underneath Ocean Blvd (Polydor), at No. 3, respectively.
In the meantime, The Beatles’ “final” single “Now And Then” (by way of Apple Corps), launched 53 years after the Fab 4 cut up, is topped the best-selling vinyl single of 2023 within the U.Okay.
The music, which started life as a demo recorded by John Lennon within the late Nineteen Seventies, and which options contributions from all 4 members of the legendary band, moved 33,000 copies on vinyl since its launch, which included 12” and seven” variations, with followers snapping up clear, gentle blue and blue/white marble editions.
En path to No. 1 on the weekly tally final November, “Now And Then” established a flurry of data, together with the longest span between an artist’s first and final No. 1, and the U.Okay.’s fastest-selling vinyl single of the century.
On the year-end vinyl singles tally, Boygenius’s “The Relaxation” (Interscope) is available in behind the Beatles, at No. 2, whereas veteran digital music wizard Aphex Twin completes the highest 3 with “Blackbox Life Recorder 21F” (Warp). British punk icons the Intercourse Pistols land three vinyl releases within the U.Okay.’s high 10, all by way of Virgin: “Anarchy within the U.Okay.” (No. 5), “Holidays within the Solar” (No. 6) and “Fairly Vacant” (No. 9).
Vinyl is not any trifling matter. Information printed by the BPI, which operates the OCC in a three way partnership with leisure retail physique ERA, reveals that the format posted its sixteenth consecutive 12 months of progress in 2023.
Yr-on-year progress was 11.7% to five.9 million models (as much as week 51), for the best annual gross sales figures for the format since 1990. That’s effectively up on the two.9% progress recorded within the earlier 12 months.
See the total year-end vinyl charts right here.
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