David Bowie surpassed even the Beatles in vinyl sales.
David Bowie is the best-selling vinyl record artist of the 21st century in the United Kingdom.
The late singer's vinyl record sales for the 2000s in the UK market totaled 582,704 as of January 6, a performance that puts him ahead of the only other name to surpass half a million vinyl record sales, the Beatles (535,596 sales).
According to chart analyst Alan Jones from Music Week, the 2020s are preceded by the same artists, with David Bowie having 134,237 sales and the Beatles having 113,613 sales.
Based on the Top 10 vinyl sales in the UK in 2021, Bowie is in third place (53,181) behind the Beatles (58,567) and Taylor Swift (56,917). However, Bowie is ahead of sales of vinyl records for the first two years of the new decade thanks to the release of a successful series of reissues.
More recently, David Bowie's "lost" album from 2000 debuted in the UK Top 5 with high physical sales.
Music Week points out that sales revenue is just as significant, as Rhino Entertainment has distributed nearly 1,000 (989) copies of the six-inch 10-inch vinyl box set, which sells for almost λί 120 through David Bowie's official website.
Total sales of "Toy" in the first week of its release amounted to 7,400 in the United Kingdom, a number that includes 5,851 box set CDs priced at 26 pounds (currently sold out in the official Bowie store), 240 downloads and streams equivalent with 304 sales.
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"Toy" was released on January 7, the day before David Bowie was 75 years old and was the highest-selling physical album of the week in the United Kingdom.
A total of three David Bowie vinyl records appeared in the UK Top 40 last week.
In addition to "Toy", "Hunky Dory", which was re-released in an anniversary edition at the end of 2021, went up to No. 31, the highest position it has occupied since 2017. 2,081 of the 2,550 sales it recorded last week were on vinyl.
David Bowie's third album in the Top 40 of vinyl sales in the UK last week is the "Legacy" collection from 2016, which jumped from No. 38 to No. 19 (with 3,231 sales), reaching the highest position found on the chart.
Sales of vinyl records have continued to grow steadily for almost 15 years.
The British Phonographic Federation (BPI) recently reported that vinyl sales in the UK in 2021 were the highest in 30 years.
In the US, vinyl has surpassed CD sales in sales for the first time in decades. According to MRC Data, 38.3% of all album sales in the country last year were vinyl, while vinyl records accounted for more than 50% of total physical album sales (41.72 million sales out of a total of 82.79 million). .
