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The Top 10 selling vinyl albums in 2015 included new releases and classics.1. Adele: “25” (116,000 copies)2. Taylor Swift: “1989” (74,000)3. Pink Floyd: “Dark Side of the Moon” (50,000)4. The Beatles: “Abbey Road” (49,800)5. Miles Davis: “Kind of Blue” (49,000)6. Arctic Monkeys: “AM” (48,000)7. Sufjan Stevens: “Carrie & Lowell” (44,900)8. Alabama Shakes: “Sound & Color” (44,600)9. Hozier: “Hozier” (43,000)10. Various Artists: “Guardians of the Galaxy Soundtrack” (43,000)Source: Forbes.com
Vinyl isn’t just the name of a new series on HBO.
In fact, not only are those old records you have stored in the closet desirable and a little more valuable than you thought, so is that vintage turntable the albums are stacked on.
And while classic albums by Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Foreigner and Boston are the hardest to keep in stock for Chad Bledsoe at Chad’s Records inside Winder Binder on the North Shore, the vinyl version of Adele’s 2015 release “25” outsold all of them by a wide margin worldwide.
She sold 116,000 copies of her smash hit on wax alone. Besides Adele, Taylor Swift sold 74,000 vinyl copies of her “1989” album and Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” which stayed on the Billboard charts from 1973 to 1988, was third on the Top 10 list, adding another 50,000 units sold last year to its total of 50 million copies sold since its release.