The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Vinyl Singles and Albums of the Millennium

16 April 2015

By Rob Copsey

 

Since the announcement of the UK’s first Official Vinyl Charts earlier this week, we at OfficialCharts.com have been loading you up with all sorts of vinyl-related stats, including the best-selling of the year so far and the decade’s biggest vinyl singles and albums. Today, we reveal the Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Vinyl singles and albums of the Millennium so far.

 

Leading the way on the vinyl singles tally is Spiller’s Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love). The track, which kick-started the career of guest singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, also topped the Official Singles Chart upon its release in August 2000.

 

The second-biggest vinyl single of the millennium so far is Delerium’s Silence. The Canadian electronic group’s track - which features singer Sarah McLachlan - first charted in October 2000, where it peaked at Number 3.

 

Number 3 on the chart is 50 Cent’s signature hit from 2003 In Da Club, and Public Domain’s rave anthem Operation Blade (Bass In The Place) is at 4. The track, which samples New Order’s Confusion, peaked at Number 5 on the Official Singles Chart in December 2000 and spent 20 weeks on the tally.

 

Rounding off the Top 5 is Sandstorm by Finnish DJ and producer Darude. The trance number peaked at Number 3 on the chart back in June 2000.

 

Check out the rest of the Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Vinyl Singles of the Millennium so far below:

 

1 GROOVEJET (IF THIS AIN'T LOVE) SPILLER

2 SILENCE DELERIUM FT SARAH MCLACHLAN

3 IN DA CLUB 50 CENT

4 OPERATION BLADE (BASS IN THE PLACE) PUBLIC DOMAIN

5 SANDSTORM DARUDE

6 TOCA'S MIRACLE FRAGMA

7 JUMP AROUND HOUSE OF PAIN

8 TIME TO BURN STORM

9 LONELINESS TOMCRAFT

10 KERNKRAFT 400 ZOMBIE NATION

11 GOTTA GET THRU THIS DANIEL BEDINGFIELD

12 SET YOU FREE N-TRANCE

13 RAPTURE IIO

14 SATISFACTION BENNY BENASSI PTS THE BIZ

15 CALL ON ME ERIC PRYDZ

16 LK (CAROLINA CAROL BELA) DJ MARKY & XRS

17 PITCHIN' (IN EVERY DIRECTION) HI-GATE

18 MYMYMY ARMAND VAN HELDEN

19 RESURECTION PPK

20 LOLA'S THEME SHAPESHIFTERS

21 LAZY X-PRESS 2 FT DAVID BYRNE

22 CASTLES IN THE SKY IAN VAN DAHL

23 LUVSTRUCK SOUTHSIDE SPINNERS

24 ONE MORE TIME DAFT PUNK

25 ANOTHER CHANCE ROGER SANCHEZ

26 MOVIN' TOO FAST ARTFUL DODGER & ROMINA JOHNSON

27 IT FEELS SO GOOD SONIQUE

28 TOUCH ME RUI DA SILVA FT CASSANDRA

29 SSSST (LISTEN) JONAH

30 STAN EMINEM

31 DOOMS NIGHT AZZIDO DA BASS

32 PLAYED A LIVE (THE BONGO SONG) SAFRI DUO

33 LOSE YOURSELF EMINEM

34 A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION ELVIS VS JXL

35 MAKE LUV ROOM 5 FT OLIVER CHEATHAM

36 FLASHDANCE DEEP DISH

37 ON THE BEACH YORK

38 AMERICAN DREAM JAKATTA

39 ADAGIO FOR STRINGS TIESTO

40 THE NEXT EPISODE DR DRE FT SNOOP DOGG

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Over on the Official Top 40 Biggest Vinyl Albums of the Millennium so far, Arctic Monkey’s AM takes the top spot. The third studio album from the indie rockers marked their fifth Official Albums Chart Number 1 and spent two weeks at the top upon its release in 2013.

 

Arctic Monkeys claim two more entries on the list; 2006’s Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Number 4), and 2007’s Favourite Worst Nightmare (21).

 

The second-biggest selling vinyl album since 2000 is Travis’ The Invisible Band. The group’s third studio album was their second chart-topping LP and includes the hit singles Sing and Flowers in the Window.

 

Radiohead’s most recent studio album, 2011’s The King Of Limbs, finishes in third place, and Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic The Dark Side Of The Moon completes the Top 5.

 

Other notable entries on the chart are Daft Punk’s 2013 album Random Access Memories (Number 6), Royal Blood’s self-titled LP at 9, and Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black at 11.

 

Check out the rest of the Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Vinyl Albums of the Millennium so far below:

 

1 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS

2 THE INVISIBLE BAND TRAVIS

3 THE KING OF LIMBS RADIOHEAD

4 WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M ARCTIC MONKEYS

5 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD

6 RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES DAFT PUNK

7 THE ENDLESS RIVER PINK FLOYD

8 FOR EMMA FOREVER AGO BON IVER

9 ROYAL BLOOD ROYAL BLOOD

10 THE STONE ROSES STONE ROSES

11 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE

12 DEFINITELY MAYBE OASIS

13 2001 DR DRE

14 1 BEATLES

15 ABBEY ROAD BEATLES

16 UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK NIRVANA

17 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES

18 FAVOURITE WORST NIGHTMARE ARCTIC MONKEYS

19 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS

20 IN RAINBOWS RADIOHEAD

21 21 ADELE

22 DUMMY PORTISHEAD

23 LAZARETTO JACK WHITE

24 OK COMPUTER RADIOHEAD

25 ELEPHANT WHITE STRIPES

26 THE LAST TEMPTATION JA RULE

27 REVOLVER BEATLES

28 LIKE CLOCKWORK QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

29 THE NEXT DAY DAVID BOWIE

30 FOUR SYMBOLS LED ZEPPELIN

31 SONIC HIGHWAYS FOO FIGHTERS

32 WISH YOU WERE HERE PINK FLOYD

33 LED ZEPPELIN LED ZEPPELIN

34 IS THIS IT STROKES

35 LOST IN THE DREAM WAR ON DRUGS

36 DISCOVERY DAFT PUNK

37 X ED SHEERAN

38 AN AWESOME WAVE ALT-J

39 THE QUEEN IS DEAD SMITHS

40 LED ZEPPELIN 2 LED ZEPPELIN

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QUEEN SOPHIE.

 

Best selling vinyl as well as being the first song to ever be played on an iPod.

Very impressed to see so many dance singles here! :D I presume they weren't just solely for DJ's and radio jockeys?

Basically, Now that's what I Call Dance Music 2000/2001.

It's basically a list of the best selling 12" singles from the start of the millennium...

what's with all the dance singles doing well on vinyl though? :o Couldn't have just been from DJs who still used vinyl surely? Some real classics here anyway :heart:

what's with all the dance singles doing well on vinyl though? :o Couldn't have just been from DJs who still used vinyl surely? Some real classics here anyway :heart:

Most of the dance singles in the chart are from the era when record shops still stocked a healthy amount of 12" singles and the format still appealed to many dance music fans.