The biggest selling vinyl albums and singles of 2024 in the UK have been revealed, with Taylor Swift and Liam Gallagher topping the respective charts.
Swift’s 11th album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ tops the vinyl albums list for the year, after selling a total of 112,000 LPs (via the Official Charts Company). No other album has shifted so many copies in its first year of release this century, with 66,000 of those sales taking place in its first week.
It is the third consecutive year that Swift has topped the vinyl albums chart in the UK – in 2023, ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ was the Number One, while ‘Midnights’ took the top spot in 2022.
Those two albums also have a place in 2024’s charts, with the former sitting at Number 20 and the latter at Number 38. Three other Swift titles – ‘Lover’ (29), ‘Folklore’ (30) and ‘Evermore’ (36) – also take a space in the 2024 Top 40.
At second place in the list is the 30th anniversary re-release of Oasis’ classic 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’. The reissue shifted over 50,000 copies since its September release and reached Number One on the overall Albums Chart.
Some of 2024’s biggest albums round out the Top Five, with Chappell Roan’s ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short N’ Sweet’ and Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Romance’ all making the cut. Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ lands at Number Six.
The rest of the 2024 vinyl albums chart sees classic records such as Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ (at Number Seven) and Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back To Black’ (13) rubbing shoulders with new tastemakers in the form of Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ (10) and The Last Dinner Party’s ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’ (12).
The Cure’s ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ gets into the top 10 at Number 8, as does Coldplay’s latest record, ‘Moon Music’ (9).
Further down the chart, evergreen releases such as Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ (27), Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’ (24) and The Stone Roses’ self-titled debut (22) continue to hold down spots.
Over on the vinyl singles chart for 2024, the top spot goes to Liam Gallagher and John Squire’s ‘Just Another Rainbow’, just ahead of Chappell Roan’s viral ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ and Noah Kahan’s ‘Stick Season’, the year’s biggest song overall.
As on the albums chart, vintage singles are present throughout the vinyl singles chart, including Oasis’ ‘Supersonic’ (4) and Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas (5), while Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ sees its 2024 revival translate into a Number 25 year-end placement.
Other standout hits of the year are present on the list – including Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ (10), Dua Lipa’s ‘Houdini’ (11) and Ariana Grande’s ‘Yes, And’.
The Official Top 10 Best-Selling Vinyl Albums of 2024
- Taylor Swift – ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
- Oasis – ‘Definitely Maybe’
- Chappell Roan – ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’
- Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Short N’ Sweet’
- Fontaines D.C. – ‘Romance’
- Billie Eilish – ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’
- Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rumours’
- The Cure – ‘Songs Of A Lost World’
- Coldplay – ‘Moon Music’
- Charli XCX – ‘Brat’
The Official Top 10 Best-Selling Vinyl Singles of 2024
- Liam Gallagher & John Squire – ‘Just Another Rainbow’
- Chappell Roan – ‘Good Luck, Babe!’
- Noah Kahan – ‘Stick Season’
- Oasis – ‘Supersonic’
- Wham! – ‘Last Christmas’
- Olivia Rodrigo – ‘Stick Season’
- Ariana Grande – ‘Yes, And’
- Dave McCullen – ‘Bitch’
- RAYE – ‘Genesis’
- Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Espresso’
The Official Charts Company reported that a total of 6.7million vinyl albums were sold in the UK in 2024, a 9.1 per cent increase from the previous year. That makes 2024 the 17th consecutive year of growth for the physical format and the biggest year for vinyl sales in three decades.
