Posted January 4, 201312 yr The Top 10 biggest selling vinyl albums of 2012 04/01/2013 By Lauren Kreisler The XX’s Coexist tops the biggest selling vinyl chart of 2012 as sales of LPs continue to increase for a fifth successive year. Coexist, the second album by The XX, was the best-selling vinyl album of 2012, new Official Charts Company figures released today by the BPI reveal. In second place was the 2012 rerelease of The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars by David Bowie. Originally released in June 1972, Ziggy Stardust was remastered and reissued on vinyl LP to commemorate the classic album’s 40th anniversary along with a 5:1 surround mix and high resolution audio on an accompanying bonus DVD. Other big-selling vinyl LPs during 2012 included Jack White’s Blunderbuss at Number 3 and Adele’s 21 in fourth place. Vinyl sales grew for the fifth successive year with a total of 389,000 LPs sold during 2012 – an increase of 15.3% over 2011’s sales of 337,000. Geoff Taylor, BPI Chief Executive, said: "With more than 60 years of loyal service, the vinyl LP is by some margin the most enduring album format of all time. Although sales overall are small compared to CD and digital albums, vinyl’s collectability and appeal to audiophiles is drawing in new fans, in particular through initiatives like the popular annual Record Store Day. Increasingly LPs also include codes that can be redeemed online for digital albums - giving fans the best of both worlds.” The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Vinyl LPs Of 2012 are as follows: 1 COEXIST THE XX 2 THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST DAVID BOWIE 3 BLUNDERBUSS JACK WHITE 4 21 ADELE 5 LONERISM TAME IMPALA 6 TEMPEST BOB DYLAN 7 BLOOM BEACH HOUSE 8 AN AWESOME WAVE ALT-J 9 GO-GO BOOTS DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS 10 THE WALL PINK FLOYD © 2013 The Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. In related news, The Invisible Band by Travis remains the top-selling vinyl LP of the 21st Century. The second biggest seller of the millennium is The King Of Limbs - issued by Radiohead initially as a download then in May 2011 as a special ‘newspaper edition’ that included two 10-inch vinyl records. The Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Vinyl LPs Of The 21st Century are as follows: 1 THE INVISIBLE BAND TRAVIS 2 THE KING OF LIMBS RADIOHEAD 3 2001 DR DRE 4 FOR EMMA FOREVER AGO BON IVER 5 1 THE BEATLES 6 THE LAST TEMPTATION JA RULE 7 WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM... ARCTIC MONKEYS 8 ELEPHANT WHITE STRIPES 9 DISCOVERY DAFT PUNK 10 IS THIS IT THE STROKES © 2013 The Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
January 4, 201312 yr Author Great to see vinyl is still increasing! I know I was responsible for one of those 389k! :D The increase is probably helped by many HMV's having a vinyl collection in store.
January 4, 201312 yr The Invisible Band by Travis? That's a bit of a random album to top the 21st century vinyl chart!! Is there a particulat reason it sold so many copies on vinyl?
January 4, 201312 yr I love how unexpected = random. Unexpected is relative. It depends on your expectations. I am not surprised at all.
January 4, 201312 yr I wonder who had the official best selling single cassette last year, I reckon it be Feeder :lol:
January 4, 201312 yr I wonder who had the official best selling single cassette last year, I reckon it be Feeder :lol: The chart coverage by Alan Jones mentioned some random french artist topped the cassette charts for 18 weeks in a row selling 56 copies on xmas week - not sure if they are the top seller of the year!! Edited January 4, 201312 yr by steve201
January 4, 201312 yr Isn't N*Synch? *NSYNC might be #2 after they were #1 the previous 3 (?) years but it's definitely Feeder at #1, IIRC they sold around 500 cassettes of 'Borders' in its first week while *NSYNC had been topping the EOY lists on <20 sales! The chart coverage by Alan Jones mentioned some random french artist topped the cassette charts for 18 weeks in a row selling 56 copies on xmas week - not sure if they are the top seller of the year!! That's the cassette album chart. I'm surprised cassette albums can sell that much, Feeder's success was just from their fanbase and the general novelty of releasing a single on cassette in 2012, otherwise it's a dead and useless format (do they even make cassette players any more?)
January 4, 201312 yr Talking about cassette singles earlier https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OfficialCha...ct&src=hash
January 4, 201312 yr I was gutted 'Children Of The Sun' and 'Idaho' were only released on 7". Feeder could have had the end of year top 3 cassette singles bagged! 'Borders' is brilliant still - and me being the loon that I am - have it in all formats...
January 4, 201312 yr I wonder who had the official best selling single cassette last year, I reckon it be Feeder :lol: :D
January 4, 201312 yr Author Talking about cassette singles earlier https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OfficialCha...ct&src=hash So as we knew, Feeder's Border was the best selling cassette of 2012, and by the sounds of it, a Rachel Stevens song was #2.
January 6, 201312 yr I'm surprised that there is only 1 Beatles album in the list of best sellers from the past decade - Seem to always sell a few of their vinyls at work each week although I guess sales are more spread out across all their different releases. The price of vinyl still shocks me though - We sell The Beatles albums for £35, Muse for £50 [!!!] and ones by the likes of Alt-J, Tame Impala etc for £15
January 6, 201312 yr Author The price of vinyl still shocks me though - We sell The Beatles albums for £35, Muse for £50 [!!!] and ones by the likes of Alt-J, Tame Impala etc for £15 Yeah, considering they have been increasing these past few years, you'd have thought it would be fine to reduce the price for vinyls as there won't be any worry there will less money made from them. There's quite obviously more and more demand for them, but who wants to pay up to £50 for a vinyl?
January 6, 201312 yr Yeah, considering they have been increasing these past few years, you'd have thought it would be fine to reduce the price for vinyls as there won't be any worry there will less money made from them. There's quite obviously more and more demand for them, but who wants to pay up to £50 for a vinyl? It totally acts as a barrier to people buying into the format for collection purposes or otherwise - We have a Muse display at work and the '2nd Law' vinyl boxset is £50 [Which is just the vinyl and CD in a box!], Standard vinyl for £19 and next to it the CD is £6.
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