Bruce Springsteen claims Ireland’s best-selling new vinyl release of the year with Letter To You. Despite being released late in the year in October, Bruce’s ninth Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart sold strongly, shifting just shy of 3,000 copies on the revived format to finish fourth on the overall best-sellers list.
Vinyl album sales jumped by an impressive 42% in 2020, with 309,000 albums were purchased on wax across the year, compared to 218,000 in 2019.
Vinyl now accounts for 8.1% of the total albums market in Ireland. Fleetwood Mac’s classic Rumours - a staple for any new vinyl collection - takes up the overall vinyl Number 1 spot for the year.
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