Liam Gallagher & John Squire’s ‘Just Another Rainbow’ UK’s Top-Selling Vinyl Single Of 2024
Liam Gallagher and John Squire’s Just Another Rainbow has been revealed as the best-selling UK single of 2024, in the Official Charts Company’s end of year report. Just Another Rainbow ranked just ahead of Chappell Roan’s viral Good Luck, Babe! and Noah Kahan’s Stick Season, the year’s biggest song overall.
As on 2024’s albums chart, vintage singles are present throughout the vinyl singles chart, including Oasis’ Supersonic (4) and Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas (5), while Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s Murder On The Dancefloor sees its 2024 revival translate into a Number 25 year-end placement.
Other standout hits of the year are present on the list – including Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso’ (10), Dua Lipa’s Houdini (11) and Ariana Grande’s Yes, And (7).
In the year’s best-selling albums, Taylor Swift’s 11th album The Tortured Poets Department tops the vinyl albums list for the year, after selling a total of 112,000 LPs. 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.
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. Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft lands at Number Six.
The Cure’s Songs Of A Lost World makes the top 10 at Number 8, as does Coldplay’s latest record, Moon Music at No. 9.
The Official Charts Company reported that a total of 6.7million vinyl albums were sold in the UK in 2024, a 9.1 per cent increase from the previous year. That makes 2024 the 17th consecutive year of growth for the physical format and the biggest year for vinyl sales in three decades.