These were the UK’s best-selling vinyl albums and singles of 2024

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Taylor Swift and Liam Gallagher topping the respective charts.Swift’s 11th album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ tops the vinyl albums list for the year, after selling a total of 112,000 LPs (via the Official Charts Company).

No other album has shifted so many copies in its first year of release this century, with 66,000 of those sales taking place in its first week.It is the third consecutive year that Swift has topped the vinyl albums chart in the UK – in 2023, ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ was the Number One, while ‘Midnights’ took the top spot in 2022.Those two albums also have a place in 2024’s charts, with the former sitting at Number 20 and the latter at Number 38.

Three other Swift titles – ‘Lover’ (29), ‘Folklore’ (30) and ‘Evermore’ (36) – also take a space in the 2024 Top 40.At second place in the list is the 30th anniversary re-release of Oasis’ classic 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’.

The reissue shifted over 50,000 copies since its September release and reached Number One on the overall Albums Chart.Some of 2024’s biggest albums round out the Top Five, with Chappell Roan’s ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short N’ Sweet’ and Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Romance’ all making the cut.