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One of the most remarkable music trends of the 2010s has been the resurgence of a format once seen as obsolete.

Since vinyl ceased to become the dominant physical format in the 1980s, fandom of the black plastic was restricted to DJs and collectors, with the odd enthusiast poring over stacks of vinyl in local record shops.

In the last decade, however, vinyl has made a comeback. it's now more widely available than it has been in years – you can even buy vinyl albums in supermarkets. The vinyl revival led Official Charts to launch the Official Vinyl Albums and Singles Charts, which are updated every week.

There's been a demand from some fans to hear vintage albums on the format they were originally recorded for, which has led to an increasing fondness by artists to reissue classics on vinyl, sometimes on very collectable limited editions, such as coloured discs or double LP sets with extra content.

As a result, the biggest vinyl albums of the last decade are very much a greatest hits of the last 63 years of the Official Albums Chart, with a few modern takes thrown in.

Top of the heap is the 1977 classic from Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, which has been a regular fixture of the Top 100 for the last few years thanks to its vinyl edition, on 130,000 vinyl sales since the decade began. The album recently returned to Number 1 on the Official Vinyl Albums Chart following a reissue on clear vinyl.

Representing the 21st century, Amy Winehouse's game-changing second album Back to Black is second, notching up 125,000 vinyl sales, and we're back to the '70s for the third biggest vinyl album of the Tens: 1973's Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd has 113,000 sales on wax.

The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, Awesome Mix Vol.1, is one of the bestselling vinyl albums of the decade following its release in 2014 (106,000), and our Top 5 of the 2010s' biggest vinyl albums is rounded off by The Stone Roses' 1989 self-titled debut (92,000).

The biggest band of all time – that's The Beatles in case you were wondering – make a few appearances thanks to anniversaries of some of their classic albums leading to reissues: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (8), Abbey Road (12), The Beatles (44), and Revolver (54).

Oasis' first two albums both get a Top 20 slot, with debut Definitely Maybe at 13, and its follow-up (What's The Story) Morning Glory farther up at 7, but the Gallagher brothers have been doing OK outside the band too. Liam Gallagher's solo debut As You Were shifted 16,000 vinyl copies in its first seven days on sale in 2017, giving him the biggest one-week vinyl sales in over 20 years, 22nd on our end-of-decade rundown. Liam's second album Why Me Why Not is already in the Top 100 too – it's the highest vinyl album released this year. Brother Noel Gallagher's third post-Oasis album Who Built The Moon, also from 2017, is at 47 on the decade's bestselling vinyls list.

The death of iconic rock star David Bowie in 2016 led to a surge in demand for his catalogue on vinyl. He takes up six slots in our Top 100: his final album Blackstar, released just days before he died (15); Legacy (17); The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (26); Hunky Dory (43); ChangesOneBowie (82); Aladdin Sane (90); and Nothing Has Changed (93).

The full Official Top 100 biggest selling vinyl albums of the decade:

1 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC 2 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE 3 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD 4 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 1 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 5 THE STONE ROSES STONE ROSES 6 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS 7 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS 8 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES 9 NEVERMIND NIRVANA 10 LEGEND BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS 11 GREATEST HITS QUEEN 12 ABBEY ROAD BEATLES 13 DEFINITELY MAYBE OASIS 14 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN 15 BLACKSTAR DAVID BOWIE 16 UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK NIRVANA 17 LEGACY DAVID BOWIE 18 WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M ARCTIC MONKEYS 19 FOUR SYMBOLS LED ZEPPELIN 20 PURPLE RAIN - OST PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION 21 PULP FICTION ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 22 AS YOU WERE LIAM GALLAGHER 23 THE QUEEN IS DEAD SMITHS 24 25 ADELE 25 HATFUL OF HOLLOW SMITHS 26 THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST DAVID BOWIE 27 WISH YOU WERE HERE PINK FLOYD 28 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING 29 APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION GUNS N' ROSES 30 UNKNOWN PLEASURES JOY DIVISION 31 TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO ARCTIC MONKEYS 32 GREATEST HITS FLEETWOOD MAC 33 ROYAL BLOOD ROYAL BLOOD 34 HOTEL CALIFORNIA EAGLES 35 HUMAN RAG'N'BONE MAN 36 THE WALL PINK FLOYD 37 GREATEST HITS FOO FIGHTERS 38 X ED SHEERAN 39 OK COMPUTER RADIOHEAD 40 A MOON SHAPED POOL RADIOHEAD 41 ALL OVER THE WORLD - THE VERY BEST OF ELO 42 LED ZEPPELIN LED ZEPPELIN 43 HUNKY DORY DAVID BOWIE 44 THE BEATLES BEATLES 45 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 46 LED ZEPPELIN 2 LED ZEPPELIN 47 WHO BUILT THE MOON NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING 48 LONDON CALLING CLASH 49 HOT FUSS KILLERS 50 BACK IN BLACK AC/DC 51 STAYING AT TAMARA'S GEORGE EZRA 52 I LIKE IT WHEN YOU SLEEP FOR YOU ARE SO 1975 53 THE DOORS DOORS 54 REVOLVER BEATLES 55 THE BALCONY CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN 56 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA 57 AMERICAN IDIOT GREEN DAY 58 STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON NWA 59 GREATEST HITS II QUEEN 60 THE 1975 1975 61 THE WAR OF THE WORLDS JEFF WAYNE 62 RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES DAFT PUNK 63 NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS SEX PISTOLS 64 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY 65 A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS COLDPLAY 66 FAVOURITE WORST NIGHTMARE ARCTIC MONKEYS 67 21 ADELE 68 CURRENTS TAME IMPALA 69 THE RIDE CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN 70 WHY ME WHY NOT LIAM GALLAGHER 71 CALIFORNICATION RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 72 THE KING OF LIMBS RADIOHEAD 73 PET SOUNDS BEACH BOYS 74 THRILLER MICHAEL JACKSON 75 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO BILLIE EILISH 76 LET IT BLEED ROLLING STONES 77 IN UTERO NIRVANA 78 PARALLEL LINES BLONDIE 79 GRACE JEFF BUCKLEY 80 EXILE ON MAIN ST ROLLING STONES 81 + ED SHEERAN 82 CHANGESONEBOWIE DAVID BOWIE 83 THE VERY BEST OF STONE ROSES 84 URBAN HYMNS VERVE 85 THE THRILL OF IT ALL SAM SMITH 86 LUNGS FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 87 U218 SINGLES U2 88 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL CHRISTMAS VARIOUS ARTISTS 89 BABY DRIVER ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 90 ALADDIN SANE DAVID BOWIE 91 THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO 92 IN RAINBOWS RADIOHEAD 93 NOTHING HAS CHANGED - THE VERY BEST OF DAVID BOWIE 94 LED ZEPPELIN 3 LED ZEPPELIN 95 BAT OUT OF HELL MEAT LOAF 96 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT LEWIS CAPALDI 97 ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS) WU-TANG CLAN 98 OUT OF THE BLUE ELO 99 SIGH NO MORE MUMFORD & SONS 100 HYBRID THEORY LINKIN PARK

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