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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.
MORE: Ireland's Official Top 50 biggest albums of 2020
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).
MORE: The biggest Irish Homegrown songs and albums released in 2020
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.
MORE: Ireland's Official Top 50 biggest songs of 2020
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 |
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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 |
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