Vinyl discs by The Grateful Lifeless, Dylan, Stones amongst Report Retailer Day 2019’s largest sellers

This yr’s Report Retailer Day, which occurred on Saturday, April 13, helped drive vinyl gross sales to historic numbers, because of the various unique limited-edition discs launched. Billboard reviews that 827,000 vinyl albums had been bought through the week ending April 20, the best determine ever for a Report Retailer Day week and the third highest weekly quantity since Nielsen Music started monitoring gross sales in 1991.

The marketing campaign’s earlier highest vinyl gross sales determine was 733,000, set final yr.

The perfect-selling album launched at the side of the 2019 marketing campaign was the two-disc Grateful Lifeless stay assortment Warfield: San Francisco, California, October ninth, 1980/October 10th, 1980, which was obtainable on vinyl and CD.

At #2 was Bob Dylan‘s Blood on the Tracks: Take a look at Urgent, which options early variations of songs from the folk-rock legend’s traditional 1974 album. The third-best-selling Report Retailer Day unique was Inexperienced Day‘s Inexperienced Day Reside! Woodstock 1994.

Different artists with vinyl albums among the many high 10 RSD greatest sellers included Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Prince and The Doorways.

The perfect-selling single launched for this yr’s initiative was a Rolling Stones disc that includes a stay rendition of “She’s a Rainbow” from an October 2017 live performance in Paris. Madonna, in the meantime, had the third and fifth best-selling singles, which featured remixes, respectively, of “La Isla Bonita” and True Blue. At #10 was a disc that includes the Queen traditional “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Thanks to Report Retailer Day, vinyl album gross sales spiked a whopping 193 % between the week previous the initiative and the week ending April 18 — from 282,000 to 827,000.

The one weeks that noticed increased vinyl-album gross sales since 1991 had been these simply earlier than and simply after Christmas 2018 — 905,000 and 883,000.

Listed here are the 20 best-selling 2019 RSD vinyl albums:

1. The Grateful Lifeless — Warfield: San Francisco, California, October ninth, 1980/October 10th, 1980
2. Bob Dylan — Blood on the Tracks: Take a look at Urgent
3. Inexperienced Day — Inexperienced Day Reside! Woodstock 1994
4. Greta Van Fleet — From the Fires
5. Pink Floyd — A Saucerful of Secrets and techniques
6. Fleetwood Mac — The Alternate Fleetwood Mac
7. Prince — His Majesty’s Pop Life/The Purple Combine Membership
8 (tie). Pearl Jam —  Reside at Straightforward Avenue
8 (tie). Weezer — Weezer (Teal Album)
10. The Doorways — London Fog: Might 1966
11. John Lennon — Think about: The Uncooked Studio Mixes
12. Gorillaz — The Fall
13. The Rolling Stones — Large Hits (Excessive Tide and Inexperienced Grass) (U.Okay.)
14. U2 — The Europa EP
15. David Bowie — PinUps
16. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger — Four Method Avenue
17. Chic — Nugs: The Better of the Field
18. The Rolling Stones — By the Previous, Darkly (Large Hits, Vol. 2) (U.Okay.)
19. Sunn O))) — Life Metallic
20 (tie). Elton John with Ray Cooper — Reside from Moscow 1979
20 (tie). Prince — The Versace Expertise: Prelude 2 Gold
20 (tie). Weezer — Dusty Gems & Uncooked Nuggets

And listed here are the 20 best-selling 2019 RSD vinyl singles:

1. The Rolling Stones — “She’s a Rainbow”
2. Dying Grips — “Steroids” (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)
3. Madonna — “La Isla Bonita” (Tremendous Combine)
4. Cheech & Chong — “Up in Smoke”
5. Madonna — “True Blue” (Tremendous Membership Combine)
6. Julien Baker — “Pink Door”/”Dialog Piece”
7. Excessive On Hearth — “Bat Salad”
8. Anderson .Paak — “Bubblin’”
9. Dangerous Faith — “My Sanity”
10. Queen — “Bohemian Rhapsody”/”I’m In Love with My Automotive”
11. Joe Strummer — “The Rockfield Studio Tracks”
12. David Bowie/Marlene Dietrich — “Revolutionary Music”/”Only a Gigolo”
13. Lord Huron that includes Phoebe Bridgers — “The Night time We Met”
14. Menzingers — “No Penance”
15. Courtney Barnett — “Everyone Right here Hates You”
16. Czarface — “Double Dose of Hazard”
17. Fela Kuti and Roy Ayers — “Music of Many Colors”
18. Iggy Pop — “The Villagers”
19. Benjamin Gibbard — “Me and Magdalena”
20. Dr. Dre — “Nuthin’ however a ‘G’ Thang”

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