UK vinyl album sales hit record high in 2019

A 4.1% increase on the previous year.

UK vinyl sales continued to increase in 2019, reports BPI.

Read more: Our favourite albums of 2019

Marking the 12th consecutive year of vinyl sales growth, 4.3 million LPs were sold in the UK during 2019.

Vinyl albums now account for one in every 8 albums purchased in the UK across digital and physical formats.

Liam Gallagher’s Why Me? Why Not topped the charts with 29,000 LPs sold, followed by Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go at number 2, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours at number 3.

Of the top 10 best selling vinyl albums in 2019, there was only one other record released during the same year that made the cut – Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent at number 6.

Elsewhere, Queen’s Greatest Hits came in at 4, Beatles’ Abbey Road at 5, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon at 7, Oasis’ Definitely Maybe at 8, Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures at 9 and David Bowie’s Legacy at 10.

Check out the UK’s top 40 best selling vinyl albums below.

UK’s top selling vinyl albums of 2019

1
Liam Gallagher
Why Me ? Why Not


2
Billie Eilish
When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go


3
Fleetwood Mac
Rumours


4
Queen
Greatest Hits


5
Beatles
Abbey Road


6
Lewis Capaldi
Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent


7
Pink Floyd
The Dark Side Of The Moon


8
Oasis
Definitely Maybe


9
Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures


10
David Bowie
Legacy


11
Sam Fender
Hypersonic Missiles


12
Oasis
What’s The Story Morning Glory


13
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody – Ost


14
Nirvana
Nevermind


15
Motion Picture Cast Recording
The Greatest Showman


16
Amy Winehouse
Back To Black


17
Bruce Springsteen
Western Stars


18
Who
Who


19
Coldplay
Everyday Life


20
Original Soundtrack
Guardians Of The Galaxy – Awesome Mix 1


21
Billie Eilish
Don’t Smile At Me


22
Foals
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Pt 1


23
Harry Styles
Fine Line


24
Beatles
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band


25
Fontaines Dc
Dogrel


26
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Ghosteen


27
Lana Del Rey
Norman F**King Rockwell


28
Stone Roses
The Stone Roses


29
Gerry Cinnamon
Erratic Cinematic


30
Foals
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Pt 2


31
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Legend


32
Arctic Monkeys
Am


33
Catfish & The Bottlemen
The Balance


34
Kylie Minogue
Step Back In Time – The Definitive


35
Michael Kiwanuka
Kiwanuka


36
Specials
Encore


37
Ed Sheeran
No 6 Collaborations Project


38
Abba
Gold – Greatest Hits


39
Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m


40
Jeff Wayne
The War Of The Worlds