Queen top the Official Top 40 best-selling vinyl for 2019

Vinyl sales in the UK have once again been dominated by classic albums and re-issues, according to the Official Charts Company’s records for January through to June, with Queen’s Greatest Hits topping the list.

That securing of top spot is likely largely to be down to the release of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and the soundtrack to that film drops in at number 10 with the band's second best-of album also in at 29.

There should be little surprise at which are the other classic albums littering the list, with Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (4), Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon (6), Nevermind by Nirvana (11) and Oasis’s (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? (13) consistently featuring in these kinds of charts. The 40th anniversary edition of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, meanwhile, has been the third best-selling LP of the first half of this year.

Billie Eilish’s debut studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, is the highest new record at number two – despite only having been released at the end of March – but is joined by only two more 2019 releases in the top ten: Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (5) and Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt.1 by Foals (9).

Liam Gallagher’s Shockwave has shifted most vinyl singles so far this year, followed by New Order’s Ceremony – one of three featured re-presses by the band; Temptation (12) and Everything’s Gone Green (15) are the others – and David Bowie’s Boys Keep Swinging.

See below to find the full list of Official Top 40 best-selling vinyl albums of 2019 so far.

1. Queen Greatest Hits Amazon
2. Billie Eilish When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Amazon
3. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures Amazon
4. Fleetwood Mac Rumours Amazon
5. Lewis Capaldi Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent Amazon
6. Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon Amazon
7. David Bowie Legacy Amazon
8. Motion Picture Soundtrack The Greatest Showman Amazon
9. Foals Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt.1 Amazon
10. Queen Bohemian Rhapsody OST Amazon
11. Nirvana Nevermind Amazon
12. Bruce Springsteen Western Stars Amazon
13. Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? Amazon
14. Amy Winehouse Back To Black Amazon
15. The Specials Encore Amazon
16. Billie Eilish Don't Smile At Me Amazon
17. Catfish & The Bottlemen The Balance Amazon
18. Original Soundtrack Guardians Of The Galaxy – Awesome Mix 1 Amazon
19. Bring Me The Horizon Amo Amazon
20. George Ezra Staying At Tamara's Amazon
21. Bob Marley & The Wailers Legend Amazon
22. Fontaines D.C. Dogrel Amazon
23. Madonna Madame X Amazon
24. The National I Am Easy To Find Amazon
25. The Stone Roses The Stone Roses Amazon
26. Pink Floyd The Division Bell Amazon
27. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Amazon
28. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes End Of Suffering Amazon
29. Queen Greatest Hits II Amazon
30. Ian Brown Ripples Amazon
31. Jeff Wayne The War Of The Worlds Amazon
32. Nirvana Unplugged In New York Amazon
33. Vampire Weekend Father Of The Bride Amazon
34. Sleaford Mods Eton Alive Amazon
35. ABBA Gold Amazon
36. Arctic Monkeys AM Amazon
37. Gerry Cinnamon Erratic Cinematic Amazon
38. Kate Bush Hounds Of Love Amazon
39. Oasis Definitely Maybe Amazon
40. The Beatles The Beatles Amazon