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US superstar beats Abba & David Bowie to become best selling vinyl artist of decade as she dominates UK chart

Published on April 07, 2025 at 06:14 PM

US superstar beats Abba & David Bowie to become best selling vinyl artist of decade as she dominates UK chart

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.

Taylor Swift performing on stage at Wembley Stadium during The Eras Tour.
Taylor Swift has sold more vinyls in the past decade than any other artist
Illustration of the top 10 vinyl albums of the past decade (2015-2025).
Taylor's Midnights, from 2022, heads the vinyl charts
Illustration of the biggest vinyl releases of each year, from 2015 to 2024.
The Tortured Poets Department was 2024's biggest release

Midnights, from 2022, heads the vinyl charts with 129,000 sales, with 2024’s and 1989 () from 2023 close behind.

is the top Brit in third place with Harry’s House.

A surge in demand for the old school discs also saw success for , and .

The winners were named as the 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 , 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.

“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, , and have all led the way recently in establishing coloured records and making them collectible.”;

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