Ireland's Official Top 50 biggest vinyl albums and Top 20 singles of 2020

Bruce Springsteen claims Ireland’s best-selling new vinyl release of the year with Letter To You.

Despite being released late in the year in October, Bruce’s ninth Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart sold strongly, shifting just shy of 3,000 copies on the revived format to finish fourth on the overall best-sellers list.

Vinyl album sales jumped by an impressive 42% in 2020, with 309,000 albums were purchased on wax across the year, compared to 218,000 in 2019. Vinyl now accounts for 8.1% of the total albums market in Ireland.

Fleetwood Mac’s classic Rumours - a staple for any new vinyl collection - takes up the overall vinyl Number 1 spot for the year.

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Harry Styles’ second studio album Fine Line rounds out the Top 3 at Number 3, which was first released in December 2019 but continued to sell well with a restock of the album’s limited edition coke bottle green variant, and a one-year anniversary vinyl boxset.

The fastest-selling vinyl album release of the year came courtesy of Dublin post-punk group Fontaines D.C. with A Hero’s Death at 8. The collection charted at Number 2 on the Official Irish Albums Chart upon release in August.

AC/DC’s chart-topping album Power Up surges to Number 21, Christy Moore’s Top 5 album Early Years: 1969-81 lands at Number 32, while one placing behind is Liam Gallagher’s Number 1 album MTV Unplugged at Number 33.

Other chart-topping albums from 2020 that were big sellers on wax were Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways (35) and the best-seller by a female artist Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa (46).

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Looking to vinyl singles, Irish Women in Harmony picked up 2020’s best-seller with Dreams. The 39-strong charity collective of female artists and musicians came together to record a cover of The Cranberries classic, with proceeds going to domestic abuse prevention agency SAFE Ireland.

U2’s Record Store Day single 11 O’Clock Tick Tock finishes in second, Dermot Kennedy’s chart-topping smash Giants ranks third, and Liam Gallagher’s festive charity single All You’re Dreaming Of benefiting Action For Children is fourth. Reissues from Joy Division and New Order feature in the Top 10.

Further down the Top 20, Irish Women in Harmony claim a second entry at Number 11 with Together at Christmas, Billie Eilish’s Bond theme No Time To Die stirs up Number 12, post-punk group The Murder Capital are Number 16 with Love Love Love and rising pop/rock group Inhaler pick up two entries with Falling In and My Honest Face at Numbers 17 and 19.

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Ireland's Official Top 50 biggest vinyl albums of 2020

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Ireland's Official Top 20 biggest vinyl singles of 2020

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