The Official Top 40 biggest vinyl albums and singles of 2019

Featuring Liam Gallagher, Billie Eilish and Lewis Capaldi.

Liam Gallagher tops the list of 2019's best-selling vinyl albums.

The Britpop legend's second solo album Why Me? Why Not leads the Top 40 most popular albums of last year on wax, achieving 30,000 sales on the revived format. The album, which reached Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart in September, achieved first week sales on vinyl of 17,000, making it the fastest-selling vinyl album of 2019 and the format's fastest-seller of the millennium by a solo artist.

In 2019, vinyl sales grew for the 12 consecutive year, rising 4.1% to 4.3 million units sold. Vinyl albums now account for one in every eight albums bought in the UK.

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Billie Eilish's debut album When All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? lands in second with 29,000 sales. The album had a total of six vinyl variants available in the UK and made Billie the youngest ever female artist to top the Official Albums Chart.

With 28,800 sales, Fleetwood Mac's classic album Rumours charts at Number 3 on the year-end chart. The album was reissued alongside other key records in Fleetwood Mac's back catalogue, pressed on clear vinyl for the first time. The album returned to Number 1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart post-Christmas.

The UK's best-selling album of all-time Greatest Hits by Queen is at Number 4, spurred on by a first-time red vinyl release as part of hmv Vinyl Week 2019 and the success of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. The Beatles' Abbey Road rounds out the Top 5 at Number 5 after being reissued for its 50th anniversary in 2019. Abbey Road returned to Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, breaking a new record in the process.

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Looking at more 2019 releases, Lewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the fastest-selling debut album of the year - finishes in sixth, Sam Fender's chart topper Hypersonic Missiles shoots to eleventh, Bruce Springsteen shines at 17 with Western Stars, The Who are at 18 with WHO, and Coldplay's Everyday Life, the biggest album of 2019 released by a group, is at 19.

Foals claim two entries with their Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost duo of albums: PT 1 occupies 22, and the chart-topping PT 2 is at 30. Harry Styles' Fine Line - the UK's Christmas Number 1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart - finished the year at Number 23, and 2019 Number 1s Lana Del Rey's Norman F**king Rockwell and Kylie Minogue's Step Back In Time land at 27 and 24 respectively.

The Official Top 40 biggest vinyl albums of 2019

POS	TITLE	ARTIST
1	WHY ME WHY NOT	LIAM GALLAGHER
2	WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO	BILLIE EILISH
3	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC
4	GREATEST HITS	QUEEN
5	ABBEY ROAD	BEATLES
6	DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT	LEWIS CAPALDI
7	THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON	PINK FLOYD
8	DEFINITELY MAYBE	OASIS
9	UNKNOWN PLEASURES	JOY DIVISION
10	LEGACY	DAVID BOWIE
11	HYPERSONIC MISSILES	SAM FENDER
12	WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY	OASIS
13	BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - OST	QUEEN
14	NEVERMIND	NIRVANA
15	THE GREATEST SHOWMAN	MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING
16	BACK TO BLACK	AMY WINEHOUSE
17	WESTERN STARS	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
18	WHO	WHO
19	EVERYDAY LIFE	COLDPLAY
20	GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 1	ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
21	DON'T SMILE AT ME	BILLIE EILISH
22	EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST - PT 1	FOALS
23	FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES
24	SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND	BEATLES
25	DOGREL	FONTAINES DC
26	GHOSTEEN	NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
27	NORMAN F**KING ROCKWELL	LANA DEL REY
28	THE STONE ROSES	STONE ROSES
29	ERRATIC CINEMATIC	GERRY CINNAMON
30	EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST - PT 2	FOALS
31	LEGEND	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
32	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS
33	THE BALANCE	CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN
34	STEP BACK IN TIME - THE DEFINITIVE	KYLIE MINOGUE
35	KIWANUKA	MICHAEL KIWANUKA
36	ENCORE	SPECIALS
37	NO 6 COLLABORATIONS PROJECT	ED SHEERAN
38	GOLD - GREATEST HITS	ABBA
39	WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M	ARCTIC MONKEYS
40	THE WAR OF THE WORLDS	JEFF WAYNE

Vinyl singles

Looking at vinyl singles, Wham!'s festive favourite Last Christmas ended 2019 as the best-selling 7" product. The Christmas classic which is the best-selling song of all time to never reach Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, did reach the top of the Vinyl Singles Chart in 2019, spending two weeks at the top.

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Liam Gallagher takes out two entries in the Top 10, with Shockwave at 2 and One Of Us at 9, while fellow 2019 release Gerry Cinnamon's Sun Queen/Canter rounds out the Top 10 at Number 10.

Popular reissues from the likes of New Order, David Bowie and Kate Bush feature in the Top 20, alongside modern releases from Idles, Pet Shop Boys and U2.

The Official Top 40 biggest vinyl singles of 2019

POS	TITLE	ARTIST
1	LAST CHRISTMAS	WHAM
2	SHOCKWAVE	LIAM GALLAGHER
3	CEREMONY	NEW ORDER
4	BOYS KEEP SWINGING	DAVID BOWIE
5	GIRLS AND BOYS	BLUR
6	DJ	DAVID BOWIE
7	QUEENS	IDLES
8	REVOLUTIONARY SONG	REBELS & DAVID BOWIE
9	ONE OF US	LIAM GALLAGHER
10	SUN QUEEN	GERRY CINNAMON
11	WEDDING BELL BLUES	MORRISSEY
12	BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY	QUEEN
13	CLOUDBUSTING	KATE BUSH
14	TEMPTATION	NEW ORDER
15	ONE STEP BEYOND	MADNESS
16	GIVE STUPIDITY A CHANCE	PET SHOP BOYS
17	SHE'S A RAINBOW	ROLLING STONES
18	EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN	NEW ORDER
19	OUT OF CONTROL	U2
20	MERCEDES MARXIST	IDLES
21	ELECTRICITY	OMD
22	VOULEZ VOUS	ABBA
23	DREAMLAND	PET SHOP BOYS FT YEARS & YEARS
24	NEW HORIZONS	BRIAN MAY
25	TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE	FREDDIE MERCURY
26	JUMP IN THE WATER'S FINE	WEDDING PRESENT
27	LOOK AT YOU NOW	SLEEPER
28	NOW THAT I'VE FOUND YOU	LIAM GALLAGHER
29	ORPHANS	COLDPLAY
30	LOVER-TO-BE	MORRISSEY
31	WHITE STAR LINER	PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
32	SAVAGE	SQUID
33	DEXTER & SINISTER	ELBOW
34	TALKING HEADS	BLACK MIDI
35	KISS THE GO-GOAT	GHOST
36	ONE MORE DAY WON'T HURT	SLAVES
37	DARK DAYS	GERRY CINNAMON
38	I BET YOU LOOK GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR	ARCTIC MONKEYS
39	CANTINA BAND	LSO/WILLIAMS
40	MAIN THEME - THE SHINING	MARK AYRES