The number 1 best-selling record of last year is Fleetwood Mac’s iconic Rumours from 1977 with a total of 32,500 purchases. A regular Top 10 entry in recent years, the album ended at #3 in both 2019 and 2018. At second and third position in 2020 are What’s The Story Morning Glory (1995) by Oasis and Back To Black (2006) by Amy Winehouse. The fourth spot is claimed by Nirvana’s seminal Nevermind (1991) followed by Harry Styles’ latest release Fine Line (2019).

Classic albums by @fleetwoodmac, @oasis and Amy Winehouse were the UK’s Top 3 best-selling vinyl records of 2020. View the Official Top 40 in full: https://t.co/9N6lnA8Ply pic.twitter.com/tdcR6t0dqa

— Official Charts (@officialcharts) January 6, 2021

The best performing LP from 2020 is Kylie Minogue’s fifteenth record Disco that came out last November straight into topping the charts and selling 13,500 vinyl in its debut week. Already certified gold by the BPI, the album also made her the first female to land a chart topping release in five consecutive decades. The other 2020 releases to enter the year-end Top 10 include rock veterans AC/DC’s Power Up, Arctic Monkey’s Live At The Royal Albert Hall and Idles’ critically acclaimed Ultra Mono.

The rest of the Top 40 highlights two separate entries by the Beatles (Abbey Road at #15 and Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at #37), Joy Division (Closer at #32 and Unknown Pleasures at #39), Nirvana (Nevermind at #4 and Unplugged In New York at #36) and Oasis (What’s The Story Morning Glory at #2 and Definitely Maybe at #29). The most featured band in 2020’s chart are Sheffield’s finest Arctic Monkeys with three separate best-selling records: Live At The Royal Albert Hall (#9), AM (#28) and Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I Am (#33).

.@ArcticMonkeys score three entries in the UK’s best-selling vinyl albums of 2020, including their latest, Live At The Royal Albert Hall: https://t.co/9N6lnA8Ply pic.twitter.com/D5NRLeopo0 — Official Charts (@officialcharts) January 6, 2021

Alongside the vinyl chart, the OCC also revealed the best-selling singles of 2020, topped by Liam Gallagher’s festive charity single ‘All You’re Dreaming Off‘. At the second spot is Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart‘ followed closely by Rolling Stone’s ‘Living In A Ghost Town‘. The rest of the Top 10 include tracks by Billie Eilish, New Order, Noel Gallagher, Coldplay, Kily Minogue and three other remastered singles by Joy Division.

The Official Charts Company was established in 1969 to keep track of all sales of singles, albums and movies in the UK. It is currently operated by the BPI and the Entertainment Retailers Association, and was updated few years ago to include downloads and streaming too to reflect the changing industry trends. For the last thirteen consecutive years, LPs have became increasingly popular and having a year-on-year rise in sales.

Surprisingly, the OCC also revealed that casette sales have doubled from 2019, and shared the Top 40 best-selling tapes.

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Bring Me The Horizon’s powerful collaboration with Yungblud ‘Obey‘ from September peaked at #37 while its predecessor ‘Parasite Eve‘ reached the band’s second best performance at #28. The slightly more radio friendly ‘Teardrops‘ has already become their third most commercial chart entry, with only ‘Drown‘ from That’s The Spirit from 2015 breaking to #17. All three of the recent singles are set to feature in Post Human, generating a lot of hype for its upcoming premiere and sure to give it a significant boost upon its release on Friday.

Bring Me The Horizon (@bmthofficial) heading for third consecutive Top 40 single with Teardrops https://t.co/Z38YFA9De2 pic.twitter.com/Wjy2mbJpP2

— Official Charts (@officialcharts) October 26, 2020

While slightly toned down and more timid, ‘Teardrop‘ shares similar approach to the other singles, with central focus on synths and melodic samples underlying the groovy bass and drums sections. More than ever Bring Me The Horizon seem to have drawn inspiration from nu metal veterans Linkin Park who coincidentally (or not?) also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the seminal Hybrid Theory last week. 

The track has already passed 3,5 million streams on Spotify and was premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show followed by a live interview with frontman Oli Sykes. The dark and personal video that accompanied the song’s premiere has already reached 3 million views on YouTube, all in a space of one week making it one of Bring Me The Horizon’s most popular release in their career.

 

 

 

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The band’s upcoming EP Post Human is the first part of an ambitious four-part project that would eventually form a diverse full studio record in the near future. It will feature nine tracks in total, highlighting the already huge hits ‘Parasite Eve‘, ‘Obey (ft. Yungblud)’ and ‘Teardrops‘, alongside ‘Ludens‘ that came out in late 2019. In addition, the EP is promising exciting collaborations with the likes of Babymetal (for ‘Kingslayer‘), Nova Twins (‘1×1‘) and Amy Lee of Evenescence (‘One Day the Only Butterflies Left Will Be in Your Chest as You March Towards Your Death‘)

Bring Me The Horizon’s successful third single premiere marks a particularly exciting month for the contemporary British metalcore scene which saw While She Sleeps release their smashing new track ‘Sleeps Society‘ and Architects drop the huge ‘Animals‘ announcing new album in early 2021. The three bands have been widely praised on social media channels for keeping the scene alive in what has been a particularly difficult year for musicians and fans alike.

Moreover, the recent commercial success of Bring Me The Horizon’s can be seen as another win for the metal and alternative rock community this year following Bury Tomorrow’s Cannibal peaking at #10 on the Albums Charts and Enter Shikari scoring a phenomenal second place with Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible. Watch the video for ‘Teardrops‘ below and get ready for the EP release on Friday that is shaping to be a significant milestone in the Sheffield five-piece’s career.