Official Top 40 Best Selling Albums in UK Indie Record Shops revealed!

To celebrate Record Store Day 2014, we reveal the Official Top 40 biggest selling albums from the UK’s independent record shops over the last 12 months.

Two years ago this week, the Official Charts Company teamed up with Record Store Day, the now annual celebration of local independent record shops, to launch the Official Record Store Chart.

Published weekly on www.officialcharts.com as well as in NME magazine and in Music Week, the chart counts down the biggest selling albums that the British record buying public have been purchasing in 100 of the nation’s coolest independent record shops (ie; those which participate in Record Store Day) over the previous seven days.

On the eve of Record Store Day 2014, the Official Charts Company can reveal that AM by Arctic Monkeys was the biggest selling album in the nation’s independent record shops since last year’s event.

The Sheffield band’s fifth studio album, which was released in September, is joined in the Top 5 by Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories (Number 2) and Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways (3). All three albums debuted at Number 1 on the UK’s over-all Official Albums Chart during their respective release weeks.

One of the unique aspects of the Official Record Store Chart, however, is that it also showcases acts who aren't in the mainstream. British trio London Grammar are at Number 4 on the annual countdown with their debut album, If You Wait, while …Like Clockwork, US rockers Queens Of The Stone Age’s sixth studio album is at Number 5. The Top 20 also features releases by The National (8), Boards Of Canada (11), Vampire Weekend (12), Savages (13), John Grant (18) and Haim (19).

You can see the full Top 40 below:

The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling Albums In The UK's Record Shops 2013/2014

1	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS
2	RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES	DAFT PUNK
3	SWINGS BOTH WAYS	ROBBIE WILLIAMS
4	IF YOU WAIT	LONDON GRAMMAR
5	LIKE CLOCKWORK	QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
6	SINCE I SAW YOU LAST	GARY BARLOW
7	TIME	ROD STEWART
8	TROUBLE WILL FIND ME	NATIONAL
9	MIDNIGHT MEMORIES	ONE DIRECTION
10	HALCYON	ELLIE GOULDING
11	TOMORROW'S HARVEST	BOARDS OF CANADA
12	MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY	VAMPIRE WEEKEND
13	SILENCE YOURSELF	SAVAGES
14	BABEL	MUMFORD & SONS
15	THE NEXT DAY	DAVID BOWIE
16	BAD BLOOD	BASTILLE
17	RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME	OLLY MURS
18	PALE GREEN GHOSTS	JOHN GRANT
19	DAYS ARE GONE	HAIM
20	JAKE BUGG	JAKE BUGG
21	LONG WAY DOWN	TOM ODELL
22	LOVE LETTERS	METRONOMY
23	SO LONG SEE YOU TOMORROW	BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
24	SETTLE	DISCLOSURE
25	TO BE LOVED	MICHAEL BUBLE
26	REFLEKTOR	ARCADE FIRE
27	THE 1975	1975
28	THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP 2	EMINEM
29	SHANGRI LA	JAKE BUGG
30	MECHANICAL BULL	KINGS OF LEON
31	INFORM EDUCATE ENTERTAIN	PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
32	OUR VERSION OF EVENTS	EMELI SANDE
33	GOING BACK HOME	WILKO JOHNSON/ROGER DALTREY
34	THE SHOCKING MISS EMERALD	CARO EMERALD
35	RIGHT THOUGHTS RIGHT WORDS RIGHT ACTION	FRANZ FERDINAND
36	SUN STRUCTURES	TEMPLES
37	13	BLACK SABBATH
38	BORN TO DIE	LANA DEL REY
39	KVEIKUR	SIGUR ROS
40	WAKIN ON A PRETTY DAZE	KURT VILE