The Official Charts Company has unveiled a list of the Top 40 vinyl albums of the year, with Noel Gallagher’s LP beating the likes of The Stone Roses, Royal Blood, Led Zeppelin and Arctic Monkeys to the top spot.
As well as ‘Chasing Yesterday’, among the Top 10 only two other albums were released this year: Blur’s ‘The Magic Whip’ and Jamie xx’s ‘In Colour’.
Other records, such as The Stone Roses’ eponymous debut and Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album ‘Physical Graffiti’, were recently reissued.
Outside the Top 10, new albums from Muse, Sufjan Stevens, Foals and The War On Drugs fill the top 20, while Tame Impala, Florence + The Machine, Wolf Alice and more feature elsewhere in the Top 40.
Here’s the full Top 10:
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Chasing Yesterday’
The Stone Roses – ‘The Stone Roses’
Royal Blood – ‘Royal Blood’
Led Zeppelin – ‘Physical Graffiti’
Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
Pink Floyd – ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’
Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’
Blur – ‘The Magic Whip’
Jamie xx – ‘In Colour’
Ed Sheeran – ‘X’
Source: NME