Amazon's vinyl sales up by 100% on previous year

Online retailer Amazon have reported that sales of vinyl are up 100% on the previous year, mostly thanks to the release of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories LP, they say.

According to The 405, the exact numbers aren’t available yet but so far in 2013, vinyl sales have more than exceeded last years and Random Access Memories stands at the top of best-selling vinyl albums among other greats such as David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars, The Beatles’ Love Me Do (50th Anniversary Limited Edition 7” Single), Radiohead’s In Rainbows and OK Computer and Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black.

Garambois, Vice-President of European Consumer Business at Amazon said: ”It’s great to see so many people rediscovering a format that holds such an important place in music history. We expect to see sales of vinyl continue to flourish with Amazon AutoRip, helping introduce new generations to this timeless format whilst giving our customers the convenience and portability of digital music.”

Here are the top 20 vinyl best-sellers on Amazon.co.uk since 1999:

1. Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
2. Adele, 21
3. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
4. David Bowie, The Next Day
5. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
6. David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
7. Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
8. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (30th Anniversary Edition)
9. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
10. The Beatles, Love Me Do (50th Anniversary Limited Edition 7” Single)
11. Radiohead, In Rainbows
12. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
13. Bon Iver, For Emma Forever Ago
14. Radiohead, Ok Computer
15. Micah P. Hinson, Micah P. Hinson & The Gospel of Progress…
16. PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
17. Kate Bush, 50 Words for Snow
18. Alt-J, An Awesome Wave
19. The White Stripes, Elephant
20. The xx, xx

And the top 20 vinyl best-sellers on Amazon.co.uk in 2013 to date:

1. Daft Punk, Random Access Memories
2. David Bowie, The Next Day
3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Push the Sky Away
4. Black Sabbath, 13
5. Queens of the Stone Age, Like Clockwork
6. Atoms for Peace, Amok
7. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
8. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
9. Alt-J, An Awesome Wave
10. Led Zeppelin, Celebration Day
11. Iron Maiden, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
12. Iron Maiden, Somewhere in Time
13. Iron Maiden, Powerslave
14. Boards of Canada, Tomorrow’s Harvest
15. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
16. John Coltrane, Blue Train
17. National, Trouble Will Find Me
18. Iron Maiden, Live After Death
19. Iron Maiden, Maiden England ‘88
20. Nick Drake, Bryter Layter