The Official best-selling vinyl albums and singles of 2023 so far

The top sellers of the year on vinyl so far including Lana Del Rey, Gorillaz and Paramore.

The Official best-selling vinyl albums and singles of 2023 so far

Lana Del Rey's Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd is the best-selling vinyl album of the year so far, the Official Charts Company can confirm today. 

The ninth studio album from Lana recently debuted at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, becoming her sixth chart-topper in the UK and ranking as the best-seller on vinyl in 2023 so far, too. 

Did you know that there’s a tunnel... sold 20,800 copies on vinyl so far this year, surpassing Pink’s recent chart-topper TRUSTFALL for the strongest first-week sales of an album this year, and provided Lana’s strongest opening week since her second studio LP Ultraviolence hit Number 1 in 2014. 

MORE: See where all Lana Del Rey's songs and albums charted in the UK.

Coming in second place is another Number 1 album from this year, Gorillaz's Cracker Islandwhich became the second LP from the fictional band to hit the top of the Official Albums Chart in March, and their first in 17 years. 

The rest of the Top 5 is completed by Courteeners' St. Jude (3) which made Official Charts history as it finally hit Number 1 15 years after its original release following an anniversary re-issue, Pink Floyd's live-pressing of The Dark Side of the Moon, marking the record’s 50th anniversary (4) and Taylor Swift's blockbuster tenth album, Midnights (5). 

Other Number 1 albums to make the list of the best-selling vinyl LPs of 2023 so far include Paramore's first chart-topper in a decade This Is Why (6), U2's Songs of Surrender (13), The Reytons' What's Rock and Roll? (14), The Lathums' From Nothing to a Little Bit More (15), Pink's TRUSTFALL (18), Miley Cyrus's Endless Summer Vacation, which helped her score the Official Chart Double earlier this year (23), and Shania Twain's Queen of Me (26). 

In total, 21 new releases feature in the early Top 40 for 2023, including Depeche Mode's Momento Mori (9), Inhaler's Cuts & Bruises (10), Slowthai's third record Ugly (12), Sleaford Mods' UK Grim (17), Fall Out Boy's So Much (For) Stardust (22), and RAYE's acclaimed debut album My 21st Century Blues (25). 

Official Top 40 best-selling vinyl albums of 2023 so far

POS TITLE ARTIST
1 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER LANA DEL REY
2 CRACKER ISLAND GORILLAZ
3 ST JUDE COURTEENERS
4 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - LIVE AT PINK FLOYD
5 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT
6 THIS IS WHY PARAMORE
7 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD
8 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC
9 MEMENTO MORI DEPECHE MODE
10 CUTS & BRUISES INHALER
11 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES
12 UGLY SLOWTHAI
13 SONGS OF SURRENDER U2
14 WHAT'S ROCK AND ROLL REYTONS
15 FROM NOTHING TO A LITTLE BIT MORE LATHUMS
16 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
17 UK GRIM SLEAFORD MODS
18 TRUSTFALL PINK
19 NEVERMIND NIRVANA
20 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE
21 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION MILEY CYRUS
22 SO MUCH (FOR) STARDUST FALL OUT BOY
23 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS
24 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING DE LA SOUL
25 MY 21ST CENTURY BLUES RAYE
26 QUEEN OF ME SHANIA TWAIN
27 HEAVY HEAVY YOUNG FATHERS
28 THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST DAVID BOWIE
29 TURN THE CAR AROUND GAZ COOMBES
30 LEGEND BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS
31 GIGI'S RECOVERY MURDER CAPITAL
32 HATFUL OF HOLLOW SMITHS
33 WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M ARCTIC MONKEYS
34 A FISTFUL OF PEACHES BLACK HONEY
35 WET LEG WET LEG
36 BEING FUNNY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 1975
37 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY
38 RUSH MANESKIN
39 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT
40 THE CAR ARCTIC MONKEYS

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The best-selling vinyl singles of 2023 so far

New Order have claimed the best-selling vinyl single of 2023 so far. 

The influential New Wave band reach the summit with The Perfect Kiss, a single originally released in 1985, pressed on a special edition 12" vinyl to celebrate the Definitive Edition re-issue of its parent album, Low-Life. 

New Order also score three further Top 10 placings: 1983 single Blue Monday, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year (3), plus Sub-Culture (5) and Shell Shock (6), which are both also lifted from the Low Life re-

Scottish alt-rock band Frightened Rabbit earn three entries in the list, thanks to the 10th anniversary celebration of their major label debut Pedestrian Verse: The Woodpile (13), Late March Death March (14) and Backyard Skulls (15). 

Brand new 2023 releases to make the list include Irish rock quartet Inhaler's Valentine (2), Fontaines DC’s cover of Nick Drake’s ‘Cello Song (12), and Róisín Murphy's DJ Koze collaboration Can't Replicate (16).

Official Top 20 best-selling vinyl singles of 2023 so far

POS TITLE ARTIST
1 THE PERFECT KISS NEW ORDER
2 VALENTINE INHALER
3 BLUE MONDAY NEW ORDER
4 KISS THE GO-GOAT GHOST
5 SUB-CULTURE NEW ORDER
6 SHELLSHOCK NEW ORDER
7 FORGET ME LEWIS CAPALDI
8 GHOST TOWN SPECIALS
9 BEACH READY BOYS JIM BOB
10 BRAVE NEW WORLD TOYAH
11 THEME NEW BOND JUNIOR JOHN
12 'CELLO SONG FONTAINES DC
13 THE WOODPILE FRIGHTENED RABBIT
14 LATE MARCH DEATH MARCH FRIGHTENED RABBIT
15 BACKYARD SKULLS FRIGHTENED RABBIT
16 CAN'T REPLICATE ROISIN MURPHY & DJ KOZE
17 ROTOSCOPE SPIRITBOX
18 GEORGETOWN LOYLE CARNER FT JOHN AGARD
19 HUNGRY (FOR LOVE) LF SYSTEM
20 THE MESSAGE GRANDMASTER FLASH/FURIOUS FIVE

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Article Image: Neil Krug (Lana)