Radiohead LP tops indy shop sales
A REISSUE of Radiohead’s album OK Computer was the best-selling album in independent record shops in the past year.
The album celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2017 and first topped the charts in the summer of 1997.
Some 82 per cent of the album’s sales in independent record shops over the last year were on vinyl.
The second biggest seller was the special edition of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, which achieved bumper sales in its 50th anniversary.
In third place was Ed Sheeran’s Divide, which dominated the charts in 2017, followed by LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream and Queens Of The Stone Age’s Villains.