{"id":5612,"date":"2025-04-09T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5612\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:28:16","slug":"taylor-swift-lands-the-biggest-selling-new-vinyl-release-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5612\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift lands the biggest-selling new vinyl release of the decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor Swift<\/a> has three albums amongst the top four best-selling vinyl albums of the last decade, with her 2022 project \u2018Midnights\u2019 topping the list.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Record Store Day 2025, taking place on April 12, <\/a>the Official Charts<\/a> Company released data on the best-selling vinyl albums from the last decade. Last year 6.7million vinyl albums were sold, marking an almost a five-fold increase from 1994.<\/p>\n

Swift\u2019s album \u2018Midnights\u2019 heads the vinyl charts with 129,000 sales, with her 2024 and 2023 offerings \u2018The Tortured Poet\u2019s Department\u2019 and \u20181989 (Taylor\u2019s Version), respectively, also in the running in the top 10.<\/p>\n

Also on the list were Harry Styles<\/a>, Ed Sheeran<\/a>, Billie Eilish<\/a>, David Bowie<\/a> and Tame Impala<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"BrowsingBrowsing vinyl LPs in record store \u2013 stock photo. CREDIT: Ian Laker Photography\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Official biggest vinyl new releases of the past decade:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 \u2013 \u2018Midnights\u2019 \u2013 Taylor Swift\u00a0<\/strong>
2 \u2013 \u2018The Tortured Poets Department\u2019 \u2013 Taylor Swift<\/strong>
3 \u2013 \u2018Harry\u2019s House\u2019 \u2013 Harry Styles<\/strong>
4 \u2013 \u20181989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019 \u2013 Taylor Swift<\/strong>
5 \u2013 \u2018Legacy\u2019 \u2013 David Bowie<\/strong>
6 \u2013 \u2018Fine Line\u2019 \u2013 Harry Styles<\/strong>
7 \u2013 \u2018Divide\u2019 \u2013 Ed Sheeran<\/strong>
8 \u2013 \u2018Blackstar\u2019 \u2013 David Bowie<\/strong>
9- \u2018When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go\u2019 \u2013 Billie Eilish<\/strong>
10 \u2013 \u2018Currents\u2019 \u2013 Tame Impala\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Music Week<\/a> reports, it is important to note the impact of evergreen catalogue on vinyl sales, which are not represented in this list. Recently revealed statistics from ERA show that catalogue is still the main driver of vinyl sales<\/a>, despite the impact of contemporary pop acts with new releases.<\/p>\n

2025 marks the 18th edition of Record Store Day<\/a>\u00a0and it will feature over 270 independent record shops around the country, as well as thousands more globally. As is the standard, there will also be a series of in-store parties and a celebration of independent record store culture.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s edition of Record Store Day was held on April 20<\/a>\u00a0and saw releases from The 1975,\u00a0David Bowie<\/a>,\u00a0Daft Punk<\/a>,\u00a0Talking Heads<\/a>,\u00a0Paramore<\/a>,\u00a0Blur<\/a>,\u00a0Lily Allen<\/a>,\u00a0Gorillaz<\/a>, Elton John, Paramore and\u00a0Noel Gallagher\u2019s High Flying Birds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other 2025 Record Store Day-related news, a select group of the UK\u2019s vinyl shops are set to be profiled in a new YouTube series<\/a>. Titled\u00a0Behind The Counter, the 12-part series is premiering every Tuesday leading up to Record Store Day itself \u2013 and each episode will showcase the vibrant culture surrounding a different independent record shop.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Key Production Group has rolled out a recycling scheme for unplayable vinyl<\/a> and CDs backed by UK indie record shops. Vinyl records and CDs are made from different types of plastic \u2013 vinyl from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and CDs polycarbonate \u2013 both of which can take hundreds of years to decompose in landfills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift has three albums amongst the top four best-selling vinyl albums of the last decade, with her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,3020,3021,16,15,3022],"class_list":["post-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-pop","tag-record-store-day","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vinyl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114307537581080667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}