FEATURE:
The Lockdown Playlist
Songs from the Forty Best-Selling Vinyl Albums of 2020
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AS we are hearing in music news…
that vinyl sales have increased this year, it has made me think about the most popular albums on that format. As this article lets us know, there has been a blend of classic albums selling well and new releases competing:
“Topping the overall year-to-date list is Fleetwood Mac’s classic album Rumours. The record - released in 1977 - remains a popular choice on vinyl and regularly features in the weekly Official Vinyl Albums Chart Top 40. Just over 19,000 sales of the album have been logged on vinyl in the UK this year.
Other new releases that rank in the Top 10 best-sellers on vinyl this year include Harry Styles’ Fine Line (5), Lady Gaga’s Chromatica (6), and Fontaines DC’s A Hero's Death (7).
Further down, Scottish musician Gerry Cinnamon places 11th with his 2020 Number 1 album The Bonny, Biffy Clyro’s latest chart-topping collection A Celebration Of Endings is 13th, and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia places 23rd. Rising British band Sports Team bow at 40 with their debut album Deep Down Happy”.
As the list of the forty best-selling vinyl albums has been announced (the chart positions are true as of 23rd November), I have compiled a Lockdown Playlist that takes songs from those albums (the only album I could not find on Spotify is 80s - Various Artists, but I have linked a song included on that album at the end; if there are any songs that cannot be played, then the playlist is here - and you can open the artist’s page and access the album there). As you can see and hear, there is a satisfying and eclectic mixture of the older…
IN THIS PHOTO: The cover of Lady Gaga’s 2020 album, Chromatica
AND the new.