These are the UK’s 40 fastest-selling records of the century

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The UK’s top 40 fastest-selling albums of the century has been announced by Official Charts.

Measured by vinyl sales during the first week of release, the number one record is Arctic Monkeys’ 2018 album Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino, which sold 24,500 records in its first week. The Sheffield band’s recent live album — Live at the Royal Albert Hall — also made the list, in sixth place.

Lana Del Rey also set a record for the fastest-selling record by a female artist, with her new album Chemtrails Over The Country Club selling 16,700 units.

Other artists who made the list include Idles, David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, and Radiohead.

The list also reflect the growth of vinyl sales, and follow’s the British Phonographic Industry’s recent projection that spending on vinyl in 2021 will surpass CDs for the first time since 1987.

Check out the full list of the UK’s 40 fastest-selling albums below.

The top 40 fastest-selling vinyl albums of the century:

2. Liam Gallagher — Why Me Why Not

3. Lana Del Rey — Chemtrails Over The Country Club

4. Liam Gallagher — As You Were

5. Idles — Ultra Mono

6. Arctic Monkeys — Live At The Royal Albert Hall

7. Ed Sheeran — Divide

8. Kylie Minogue — Disco

9. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds — Who Built The Moon

10. David Bowie — Blackstar

11. AC/DC — Power Up

12. Foo Fighters — Medicine at Midnight

13. Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool

14. Liam Gallagher — MTV Unplugged

15. Fontaines DC — A Hero’s Death

16. Harry Styles — Fine Line

17. Taylor Swift — Folklore

18. Paul McCartney — McCartney III

19. Lady Gaga — Chromatic

20. The 1975 — A Brief Inquiry Into Online

21. Sam Fender — Hypersonic Missiles

22. Biffy Clyro — A Celebration of Endings

23. The Who — Who

24. The Last Shadow Puppets — Everything You’ve Come to Expect

25. Lewis Capaldi — Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent

26. The 1975 — Notes On A Conditional Form

27. Morrissey — Low In High School

28. Bob Dylan — Rough And Rowdy Ways

29. Pink Floyd — The Endless River

30. Coldplay — Everyday Live

31. Queens of the Stone Age — Villains

32. Foals — Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (part 2)

33. Foals — Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (part 1(

34. Gerry Cinnamon — The Bonny

35. Kylie Minogue — Golden

36. Yungblud — Weird

37. Paul Weller — On Sunset

38. Royal Blood — How Did It Get So Dark

39. Bruce Springsteen — Letter To You

40. Bruce Springsteen — Western Stars