TAYLOR Swift is celebrating yet another record — shifting more vinyl in the past decade than any other artist.
New figures show three of her albums are among the four best-sellers over the last decade.
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Taylor Swift has sold more vinyls in the past decade than any other artistCredit: Getty
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Taylor’s Midnights, from 2022, heads the vinyl charts
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The Tortured Poets Department was 2024’s biggest release
Midnights, from 2022, heads the vinyl charts with 129,000 sales, with 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) from 2023 close behind.
Harry Styles is the top Brit in third place with Harry’s House.
A surge in demand for the old school discs also saw success for Abba, David Bowie and Ed Sheeran.
The winners were named as the Official Vinyl chart celebrates its first ten years.
The vinyl share of UK album sales has rocketed from three per cent to 34 per cent since it began in 2015.
Last year 6.7million vinyl albums were sold, almost a five-fold increase from 1994.
This put the UK physical music market — as opposed to streaming — into growth for the first time in three decades.
More pop stars now offer multiple variants of each record. making them collectors items.
Steve Courtnell, from Pie & Vinyl, in Southsea, Hants, said: “We’re really starting to see a younger customer, between the ages of 16 and 25.
“All the different colourways in vinyl have made records more collectible.
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“People want to see the colours, open their records, look at the artwork. It’s all so much more tangible.
“Pop artists such as Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and Sabrina Carpenter have all led the way recently in establishing coloured records and making them collectible.”
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Swift beat Swedish icon’s AbbaCredit: AFP
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David Bowie’s Blackstar was the biggest vinyl release of 2016Credit: Getty
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