The Official best-selling vinyl albums and singles of 2025 so far

The biggest vinyl records of 2025 so far, featuring Sam Fender, Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan and Lola Young

The Official biggest vinyl albums and singles of 2025 so far

All this week Official Charts are marking 10 years of the Official Vinyl Charts, originally launched in April 2015 as a response to the vinyl resurgence that was gripping the UK and has continued at pace ever since. To mark the occasion, we recently revealed the best-selling new vinyl releases of the last 10 years.

Now, it's time to turn our attention to the best-selling vinyl albums and singles of the year to date.

Sam Fender's People Watching is the biggest vinyl album of 2025 so far.

When it was released in February of this year, Sam's third studio album broke records, becoming the fastest-selling vinyl album by a British act this century.

That puts it a shade ahead of Taylor Swift's Lover (Live from Paris). Originally released in limited quantity in 2023, Taylor's live document rocketed to the top of the Official Albums Chart in February thanks to a new, heart-shaped 2LP vinyl variant released in time for Valentine’s Day.

In the process, Taylor became the first female artist ever to achieve 13 UK Number 1 albums. Before then, she was tied with Madonna at 12 Number 1 albums apiece.

Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter's Short N' Sweet – home to the Number 1 singles Espresso, Please Please Please and Taste – is the third biggest vinyl album of 2025 so far.

Completing the Top 5 are Lady Gaga's pop blockbuster MAYHEM and Chappell Roan's dazzling debut The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

Other albums released in 2025 to make the Top 40 include Manic Street Preachers' Critical Thinking (9), FKA twigs' EUSEXUA (18) and Tate McRae's So Close To What (26).

The Official Top 40 best-selling vinyl albums of 2025 so far

POS	TITLE	ARTIST
1	PEOPLE WATCHING	SAM FENDER
2	LOVER (LIVE FROM PARIS)	TAYLOR SWIFT
3	SHORT N' SWEET	SABRINA CARPENTER
4	MAYHEM	LADY GAGA
5	THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS	CHAPPELL ROAN
6	ROMANCE	FONTAINES DC
7	GNX	KENDRICK LAMAR
8	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC
9	CRITICAL THINKING	MANIC STREET PREACHERS
10	HIT ME HARD AND SOFT	BILLIE EILISH
11	HURRY UP TOMORROW	WEEKND
12	STANDING ON THE SHOULDER OF GIANTS	OASIS
13	WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY	OASIS
14	WICKED	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
15	OPEN WIDE	INHALER
16	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS
17	THE SECRET OF US	GRACIE ABRAMS
18	EUSEXUA	FKA TWIGS
19	CONSTELLATIONS FOR THE LONELY	DOVES
20	MATTER DOES NOT DEFINE	LATHUMS
21	THE BAD FIRE	MOGWAI
22	DEFINITELY MAYBE	OASIS
23	IN RAINBOWS	RADIOHEAD
24	WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M	ARCTIC MONKEYS
25	FROM ZERO	LINKIN PARK
26	SO CLOSE TO WHAT	TATE MCRAE
27	SONGS OF A LOST WORLD	CURE
28	KOKO	LOTTERY WINNERS
29	OK COMPUTER	RADIOHEAD
30	GRACE	JEFF BUCKLEY
31	OH THE OCEAN	WOMBATS
32	I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THERAPY - PT 2	TEDDY SWIMS
33	BRAT AND IT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT	CHARLI XCX
34	THE STONE ROSES	STONE ROSES
35	LEGEND	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
36	THE OVERVIEW	STEVEN WILSON
37	THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT	TAYLOR SWIFT
38	BACK TO BLACK	AMY WINEHOUSE
39	THE SKY THE EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN	ARCHITECTS
40	CURRENTS	TAME IMPALA

MORE: The Official best-selling new vinyl releases of the last 10 years

The biggest vinyl single of 2025 so far is a classic: Whatever by Oasis.

After being reissued on vinyl in February to mark its 30th anniversary, Whatever has sold 12,300 units on the format. Originally released in December 1994 as a non-album single, Whatever peaked at Number 3 on the Official Charts.

Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club – which became her first Number 1 single in March of this year – is the second-biggest vinyl single of 2025 so far. And another chart-topping single by a breakout star – Lola Young's Messy – is third.

The title track of Sam Fender's People Watching album – which includes the exclusive B-side Tyrants – comes in fourth.

Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter claims four of the Top 20 vinyl singles of 2025 so far: Taste at 5, Bed Chem at 6, Espresso at 17 and Please Please Please at 20.

JADE's pop anthem FUFN (F**k You For Now) is the 12th biggest vinyl single of the year to date, while Nieve Ella's indie-pop anthem Ganni Top (She Gets What She Needs) is the 30th.

The Top 40 also includes reissues of stone-cold classics by ABBA, Kraftwerk and George Michael.

The Official Top 40 best-selling vinyl singles of 2025 so far

POS	TITLE	ARTIST
1	WHATEVER	OASIS
2	PINK PONY CLUB	CHAPPELL ROAN
3	MESSY	LOLA YOUNG
4	PEOPLE WATCHING	SAM FENDER
5	TASTE	SABRINA CARPENTER
6	BED CHEM	SABRINA CARPENTER
7	LET THE LIGHT RETURN	MANIC STREET PREACHERS
8	ALL MY LOVE	COLDPLAY
9	THAT'S SO TRUE	GRACIE ABRAMS
10	APT	ROSE & BRUNO MARS
11	LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME	ABBA
12	FUFN (F**K YOU FOR NOW)	JADE
13	AUTOBAHN	KRAFTWERK
14	I LOVE YOU I'M SORRY	GRACIE ABRAMS
15	MORE MORE MORE	MOLOTOVS
16	THIS TOWN	NIALL HORAN
17	ESPRESSO	SABRINA CARPENTER
18	LAST CHRISTMAS	WHAM
19	LAST NIGHT'S MASCARA	GRIFF
20	PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE	SABRINA CARPENTER
21	THE ARCHITECT	KACEY MUSGRAVES
22	CARELESS WHISPER	GEORGE MICHAEL
23	I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND	BEATLES
24	POPULAR	ARIANA GRANDE
25	BITCH	DAVE MCCULLEN
26	VALENTINE	LAUFEY
27	DEFYING GRAVITY	CYNTHIA ERIVO/ARIANA GRANDE
28	I'M NOT IN LOVE	10CC
29	SAILOR SONG	GIGI PEREZ
30	GANNI TOP (SHE GETS WHAT SHE NEEDS)	NIEVE ELLA
31	BLUE MONDAY	NEW ORDER
32	ANGRY	ROLLING STONES
33	SOMEBODY ELSE	1975
34	CHRISTMAS MAGIC	LAUFEY
35	NONSENSE	SABRINA CARPENTER
36	NOTHING'S GONNA HURT YOU BABY	CIGARETTES AFTER SEX
37	MILK	1975
38	GOOD LUCK BABE	CHAPPELL ROAN
39	AON	MARUJA
40	CHRISTMAS IN ATLANTIS	DELINES

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