The Top 50 official best-selling vinyl albums of 2021 in Ireland revealed

An all-time classic record was the best-selling vinyl album in 2021.

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was the best-selling vinyl album of 2021 in Ireland, the Official Charts Company can reveal.

The classic album tops our year-end Vinyl Top 50 chart, outpacing releases from modern-day acts such as Adele, Harry Styles and Dermot Kennedy.

This is actually the second year that Rumours was the Number 1 best-selling vinyl album in Ireland, last year it too reached Number 1 on the 2020 year-end chart.

In a Top 10 otherwise packed with collector classics, Adele's blockbuster comeback record 30 smashes its way to a Number 2 placing, while ABBA's long-awaited new studio album Voyage also earns a spot at Number 8.

Vinyl accounted for nearly one tenth of the Irish albums market in 2021 (9.8%) with 407,000 vinyl records sold, up from 309,000 in 2020 and 218,000 in 2019). Resurgence of the vinyl format has helped power standout growth of 35% in the overall value of Ireland’s albums market to €18.477m, up from €13.676m in 2020.

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IRMA spokesperson, Willie Kavanagh comments: "The continued adoption and collectability of vinyl means the format now makes up one tenth of album consumption, and has played an important role in driving up the value of Ireland’s albums market by over a third this year.

"There’s never been more ways for Irish music fans to access their favourite music, and these robust market numbers for 2021 demonstrate the ability of both digital and physical formats to coexist and thrive.”

The best-selling vinyl albums by Irish acts came courtesy of Dermot Kennedy (Without Fear, Number 11), while the biggest Irish debut release of 2021 on vinyl was Inhaler's chart-topping It Won't Always Be Like This, landing in the year-end vinyl Top 20 at Number 18.

Several acts place numerous albums on wax in the Top 50; these include Fleetwood Mac with a further Top 10 entry for Greatest Hits at Number 6. Harry Styles places at Number 4 with Fine Line and Number 28 with his self-titled debut. A double placing for Nirvana also with Unplugged In New York (12) and Nevermind (17). Taylor Swift gains a total of three entries; Red (Taylor's Version) (14), Evermore (23) and Folklore (32).

Further down the chart, we also see new-release albums from Olivia Rodrigo (16), Little Mix (25), Billie Eilish (33) and Lana Del Rey (48) make an impact.

The Official Top 50 best-selling vinyl albums in Ireland of 2021

POS	TITLE	ARTIST
1	RUMOURS	FLEETWOOD MAC
2	30	ADELE
3	GREATEST HITS	QUEEN
4	FINE LINE	HARRY STYLES
5	GOLD - GREATEST HITS	ABBA
6	GREATEST HITS	FLEETWOOD MAC
7	LEGEND	BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
8	VOYAGE	ABBA
9	THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON	PINK FLOYD
10	BACK TO BLACK	AMY WINEHOUSE
11	WITHOUT FEAR	DERMOT KENNEDY
12	UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK	NIRVANA
13	=	ED SHEERAN
14	RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)	TAYLOR SWIFT
15	DREAMS - THE COLLECTION	CRANBERRIES
16	SOUR	OLIVIA RODRIGO
17	NEVERMIND	NIRVANA
18	IT WON'T ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS	INHALER
19	IF THIS IS ROCK AND ROLL I WANT MY OLD	SAW DOCTORS
20	THE STONE ROSES	STONE ROSES
21	SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND	BEATLES
22	ABBEY ROAD	BEATLES
23	EVERMORE	TAYLOR SWIFT
24	AM	ARCTIC MONKEYS
25	BETWEEN US	LITTLE MIX
26	LEGACY	DAVID BOWIE
27	LET IT BE	BEATLES
28	HARRY STYLES	HARRY STYLES
29	FLYING INTO MYSTERY	CHRISTY MOORE
30	FOUR SYMBOLS	LED ZEPPELIN
31	THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST	DAVID BOWIE
32	FOLKLORE	TAYLOR SWIFT
33	HAPPIER THAN EVER	BILLIE EILISH
34	GREATEST HITS	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
35	WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO	BILLIE EILISH
36	FOR THOSE I LOVE	FOR THOSE I LOVE
37	ACHTUNG BABY	U2
38	TEN	PEARL JAM
39	IGOR	TYLER THE CREATOR
40	BACK IN BLACK	AC/DC
41	GREATEST HITS	SIMON & GARFUNKEL
42	LED ZEPPELIN	LED ZEPPELIN
43	BORN IN THE USA	BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
44	FEVER DREAMS	VILLAGERS
45	CHANGESONEBOWIE	DAVID BOWIE
46	HATFUL OF HOLLOW	SMITHS
47	LIVE AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE	GLEN HANSARD
48	CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUB	LANA DEL REY
49	U218 SINGLES	U2
50	GRACELAND	PAUL SIMON