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The Official biggest vinyl albums and singles of 2022 so far

 

The Official biggest vinyl albums and singles of 2022 so far


Editor  Steve Hart 13/4/22

As vinyl albums and single continue to raise we look at the biggest sellers of 2022 so far.
Yard Act claim the biggest vinyl album of 2022 so far with debut album The Overload. 
It tops the Official Charts Company’s end-of-quarter Official Vinyl Chart with ease, selling over
11,000 copies  since its initial release in February

Not far behind in second place are 80s icons Tears For Fears with The Tipping Point, their first new album of original material in over 17 years, which also reached Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart.

Black Country New Road achieved their highest-ever UK chart placement with Ants From up There earlier this year, and the experimental rock group bring home the third biggest vinyl album on today’s newly unveiled list.

Other chart-topping new releases also making the chart include The Wombats’ Fix  Not The World (5), Charli XCX’s first UK Number 1 LP Crash (6), Rex Orange County with Who Cares (7) and Don Broco’s Amazing Things (8)  with Bonobo Fragments at (9)
Frank Turner (10) with his ninth album FTHC.

Full official chart listing below


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