Gallagher’s tall Flying Birds top sales of both albums and singles on vinyl during the first half of the yearLet no one say the vinyl market is dominated by the dinosaurs of rock or their fans. Actually,scratch that – because it is. The Official Charts Company has released its lists of the bestselling vinyl albums and singles this year, and both are dominated by Men of Rock of a certain age.
Chasing Yesterday by Noel Gallagher’s tall Flying Birds is the bestselling vinyl album of the year, and with Nos 2 and 3 being Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti and the Stone Roses’ debut album. The highest-placed album by a woman,or an act including women, is Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, or at No 18. The only other women or acts featuring women to feature in the top 40 are Courtney Barnett (Sometimes I Sit and mediate and Sometimes I Just Sit,No 23), Florence + the Machine (How Big How Blue How Beautiful, or No 27),Fleetwood Mac (Rumours, No 29), and Belle & Sebastian (Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance,No 36), Björk (Vulnicura, or No 37) and Wolf Alice (My worship Is Cool,No 40).
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Source: theguardian.com