Ireland's Official Top 50 biggest vinyl albums and Top 20 singles of 2020

Bruce Springsteen, Fontaines D.C. and Irish Women in Harmony were popular with the Irish record collectors in 2020.

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Bruce Springsteen claims Ireland’s best-selling new vinyl release of the year with Letter To You.

Despite being released late in the year in October, Bruce’s ninth Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart sold strongly, shifting just shy of 3,000 copies on the revived format to finish fourth on the overall best-sellers list.

Vinyl album sales jumped by an impressive 42% in 2020, with 309,000 albums were purchased on wax across the year, compared to 218,000 in 2019. Vinyl now accounts for 8.1% of the total albums market in Ireland.

Fleetwood Mac’s classic Rumours - a staple for any new vinyl collection - takes up the overall vinyl Number 1 spot for the year.

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Harry Styles’ second studio album Fine Line rounds out the Top 3 at Number 3, which was first released in December 2019 but continued to sell well with a restock of the album’s limited edition coke bottle green variant, and a one-year anniversary vinyl boxset.

The fastest-selling vinyl album release of the year came courtesy of Dublin post-punk group Fontaines D.C. with A Hero’s Death at 8. The collection charted at Number 2 on the Official Irish Albums Chart upon release in August.

AC/DC’s chart-topping album Power Up surges to Number 21, Christy Moore’s Top 5 album Early Years: 1969-81 lands at Number 32, while one placing behind is Liam Gallagher’s Number 1 album MTV Unplugged at Number 33.

Other chart-topping albums from 2020 that were big sellers on wax were Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways (35) and the best-seller by a female artist Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa (46).

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Looking to vinyl singles, Irish Women in Harmony picked up 2020’s best-seller with Dreams. The 39-strong charity collective of female artists and musicians came together to record a cover of The Cranberries classic, with proceeds going to domestic abuse prevention agency SAFE Ireland.

U2’s Record Store Day single 11 O’Clock Tick Tock finishes in second, Dermot Kennedy’s chart-topping smash Giants ranks third, and Liam Gallagher’s festive charity single All You’re Dreaming Of benefiting Action For Children is fourth. Reissues from Joy Division and New Order feature in the Top 10.

Further down the Top 20, Irish Women in Harmony claim a second entry at Number 11 with Together at Christmas, Billie Eilish’s Bond theme No Time To Die stirs up Number 12, post-punk group The Murder Capital are Number 16 with Love Love Love and rising pop/rock group Inhaler pick up two entries with Falling In and My Honest Face at Numbers 17 and 19.

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Ireland's Official Top 50 biggest vinyl albums of 2020

POS	TITLE	ARTIST
1	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC
2	BACK TO BLACK	AMY WINEHOUSE
3	FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES
4	LETTER TO YOU	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
5	WITHOUT FEAR	DERMOT KENNEDY
6	DREAMS - THE COLLECTION	CRANBERRIES
7	GREATEST HITS	QUEEN
8	A HERO'S DEATH	FONTAINES DC
9	GREATEST HITS	FLEETWOOD MAC
10	LEGEND	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
11	UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK	NIRVANA
12	THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON	PINK FLOYD
13	WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO	BILLIE EILISH
14	GOLD - GREATEST HITS	ABBA
15	CALIFORNICATION	RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
16	THE STONE ROSES	STONE ROSES
17	PURPLE RAIN - OST	PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION
18	BAD MOON RISING - THE COLLECTION	CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
19	LEGACY	DAVID BOWIE
20	NEVERMIND	NIRVANA
21	POWER UP	AC/DC
22	UNKNOWN PLEASURES	JOY DIVISION
23	GREATEST HITS	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
24	SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND	BEATLES
25	FOUR SYMBOLS	LED ZEPPELIN
26	THE BEST OF	POGUES
27	HOTEL CALIFORNIA	EAGLES
28	CHANGESONEBOWIE	DAVID BOWIE
29	THE DOORS	DOORS
30	TEN	PEARL JAM
31	ABBEY ROAD	BEATLES
32	THE EARLY YEARS - 1969-81	CHRISTY MOORE
33	MTV UNPLUGGED	LIAM GALLAGHER
34	BACK IN BLACK	AC/DC
35	ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS	BOB DYLAN
36	WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY	OASIS
37	BORN IN THE USA	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
38	GREATEST HITS	SIMON & GARFUNKEL
39	HATFUL OF HOLLOW	SMITHS
40	GRACELAND	PAUL SIMON
41	DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT	LEWIS CAPALDI
42	LUNGS	FLORENCE & THE MACHINE
43	GREATEST HITS	ROD STEWART
44	WISH YOU WERE HERE	PINK FLOYD
45	THEIR GREATEST HITS - 1971-1975	EAGLES
46	FUTURE NOSTALGIA	DUA LIPA
47	PULP FICTION	ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
48	GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 1	ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
49	APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION	GUNS N' ROSES
50	UNPLUGGED	ERIC CLAPTON

Ireland's Official Top 20 biggest vinyl singles of 2020

POS	TITLE	ARTIST
1	DREAMS	IRISH WOMEN IN HARMONY
2	11 O'CLOCK TICK TOCK	U2
3	GIANTS	DERMOT KENNEDY
4	ALL YOU'RE DREAMING OF	LIAM GALLAGHER
5	LOVE WILL TEAR US APART	JOY DIVISION
6	BLUE MONDAY	NEW ORDER
7	ATMOSPHERE	JOY DIVISION
8	OUT OF CONTROL	U2
9	TRANSMISSION	JOY DIVISION
10	A HERO'S DEATH	FONTAINES DC
11	TOGETHER AT CHRISTMAS	IRISH WOMEN IN HARMONY
12	NO TIME TO DIE	BILLIE EILISH
13	LIVING IN A GHOST TOWN	ROLLING STONES
14	THE MANDALORIAN	LUDWIG GORANSSON
15	ALL MY FRIENDS	DERMOT KENNEDY
16	LOVE LOVE LOVE	MURDER CAPITAL
17	FALLING IN	INHALER
18	BLUE MOON RISING	NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING
19	MY HONEST FACE	INHALER
20	ACE OF SPADES	MOTORHEAD