New Album Releases Lead a 15-Year Uptick in Vinyl LP Sales

Album success in 2022 is shared throughout the areas of the UK, whereas new album releases lead a predicted fifteenth successive annual uplift in vinyl LP gross sales, with eight of the yr’s Prime Ten sellers launched in 2022.

Music expertise is flourishing throughout the UK, with many of the yr’s biggest-selling new albums throughout all codecs launched by artists from almost each area. The Prime 10 LPs of 2022, based on the evaluation of Official Charts knowledge by the BPI, function eight titles launched inside the calendar yr, together with albums by Harry Kinds, Arctic Monkeys, and Liam Gallagher — in comparison with solely three in 2017.

Whereas US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift led the cost in 2022’s vinyl albums market, many of the yr’s biggest-selling new albums throughout all codecs mixed had been by artists from almost each nation and area within the UK. There have been 30 completely different Quantity One albums by UK artists all year long, with 10 of the UK’s 12 areas being represented throughout a various vary of genres.

Outdoors London, Northwest England was one of the heavily-represented areas with 5 chart-topping albums in 2022, led by Cheshire-native Harry Kinds. Kinds’ third solo album, Harry’s Home, spent six weeks at Quantity One, the longest chart-topping run of the yr. Different Northwest England artists topping the charts this yr embrace Liverpool band The Wombats (Repair Your self, Not the World), Stockport group Blossoms (Ribbons Across the World), Manchester-native Liam Gallagher (C’mon You Know), and Cheshire band The 1975 (Being Humorous in a Overseas Language).

Yorkshire and the Humber confirmed robust musical illustration in 2022, with 4 artists from the area reaching Quantity One: Olly Alexander’s solo venture Years & Years (Night time Name), Yungblud (Yungblud), Louis Tomlinson (Religion within the Future), and Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott (N.Ok.Pop).

Official Albums Chart Quantity One in 2022 by UK Artists

• The Wombats – Repair Your self, Not the World
• Years & Years – Night time Name
• Don Broco – Superb Issues
• Bastille – Give Me the Future
• Frank Turner – FTHC
• Ed Sheeran – =
• Central Cee – 23
• Stereophonics – Oochya!
• Rex Orange County – Who Cares?
• Charli XCX – Crash
• Moist Leg – Moist Leg
• Digga D – Noughty By Nature
• Blossoms – Ribbon Across the Bomb
• Florence + The Machine – Dance Fever
• Harry Kinds – Harry’s Home
• Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know
• George Ezra – Gold Rush Child
• Paolo Nutini – Final Night time within the Bittersweet
• Jamie T – The Concept of No matter
• Kasabian – The Alchemist’s Euphoria
• Steps – Platinum Assortment
• Muse – Will of the Individuals
• Yungblud – Yungblud
• Robbie Williams – XXV
• Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott – N.Ok.Pop
• The 1975 – Being Humorous in a Overseas Language
• Louis Tomlinson – Religion within the Future
• Stormzy – That is What I Imply
• Olly Murs – Marry Me
• Sam Ryder – There’s Nothing However House, Man!

“It’s no shock that many of the UK expertise who reached Quantity One in 2022 are from outdoors London,” mentioned SJM Live shows artist supervisor Conrad Murray, who represents artists like Blossoms, Paul Heaton, and Jacqui Abbott. “As a Manchester-based supervisor, it’s been evident for a very long time that you simply don’t need to be within the capital to succeed — the artists I symbolize are a testomony to that.”

“Blossoms began out a decade in the past in Stockport, the place they grew up, and have now scored three Quantity One albums, together with Ribbon Across the Bomb,” Murray continues. “And for the reason that first Housemartins LP again within the Eighties, tellingly referred to as London 0 Hull 4, Paul Heaton has been residing proof of the distinctive music expertise that exists throughout all the UK. All these years later, alongside his long-time collaborator Jacqui Abbott, he’s nonetheless making good Quantity One albums.”

Newly-released albums are claiming an more and more extra important share of vinyl LP gross sales, with the yr’s ten largest sellers thus far that includes eight titles launched in 2022, based on evaluation of Official Charts knowledge by the BPI.

Taylor Swift’s Midnights ranked because the yr’s hottest album on vinyl within the UK, on a listing that included 2022 releases by Harry Kinds (Harry’s Home), Arctic Monkeys (The Automotive), Liam Gallagher (C’mon You Know), Moist Leg (Moist Leg), The 1975 (Being Humorous in a Overseas Language), Fontaines D.C. (Skinty Fia), and Muse (Will of the Individuals).

The gross sales of those 2022 albums contributed to a UK vinyl market anticipated to develop for the fifteenth successive yr, reaching its highest quantity stage since 1990. The BPI will announce the ultimate figures for vinyl LP gross sales in 2022 on January 4, 2023, as a part of its Official 2022 UK Music Market Replace. The replace will even report on CD and cassette gross sales together with the whole quantity of audio streams for the yr.

Such a excessive variety of present albums among the many yr’s prime sellers marks an extra notable shift within the vinyl market, whose revival over the previous 15 years has primarily been pushed by catalog titles. Half of the ten largest vinyl LPs of 2021 had been albums launched that calendar yr, whereas 5 years in the past, traditional albums by artists like The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, and Oasis dominated 2017’s Prime Ten sellers. That yr, new releases by Ed Sheeran, Liam Gallagher, and Rag’n’Bone Man had been the one new titles to seem on the record.

“Vinyl’s revival has been one of the welcome success tales of current occasions,” mentioned Geoff Taylor, Chief Govt BPI, BRIT Awards & Mercury Prize. “Whereas initially this renaissance was constructed largely on older music followers reconnecting with treasured previous albums and on youthful generations newly discovering traditional releases, more and more the continuing rise in LP gross sales has been pushed by model new releases.”

“A various and rising variety of modern artists have acknowledged the enduring magic of this most beloved format, from world superstars reminiscent of Taylor Swift and Harry Kinds to breakthrough UK expertise together with Moist Leg and Yard Act. Because the LP marks its seventy fifth anniversary in 2023, it’s as related as ever, highlighting that, in an age of streaming, bodily music purchases stay a necessary and wholesome a part of the music market.”

Official Vinyl Artist Albums Chart 2022

1. Taylor Swift – Midnights
2. Harry Kinds – Harry’s Home
3. Arctic Monkeys – The Automotive
4. Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know
5. Moist Leg – Moist Leg
6. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
7. The 1975 – Being Humorous in a Overseas Language
8. Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
9. Arctic Monkeys – AM
10. Muse – Will of the Individuals 2022