Pet Shop Boys top Official Record Store Chart

The pop veterans’ latest album, Electric, has gone straight in at Number 1 on the Official Record Store Chart.

The Pet Shop Boys’ Electric was the most purchased album in the UK’s independent record shops last week the Official Charts Company can reveal.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s hotly anticipated twelfth studio album has knocked Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories off the top of the Official Record Store Chart.

The Official Record Store Chart was launched in April of last year by the Official Charts Company and the organizers of Record Store Day UK to reflect sales of the UK’s coolest and most vibrant independent record shops.

Robin Thicke’s sixth album, Blurred Lines, which debuted at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart yesterday, is new in at Number 3, while Boards Of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest (Number 4) and Queens Of The Stone Age’s Like Clockwork (5) complete the Top 5.

You can see this week's Official Record Store Chart Top 40 in full, here.