David Bowie tops Official Vinyl Singles Charts with ‘Changes’ Record Store Day release

David Bowie has topped this week’s Official Vinyl Singles Charts with his ‘Changes’ single released for this year’s Record Store Day which took place globally at the weekend (Saturday 18th April).

Bowie’s single - which failed to hit the top 40 when originally released in 1971 - was followed by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds with ‘In The Heat Of The Moment’ which jumped 31 places into second.

Foo Fighters entered at number 3 with their Record Store Day single ‘Songs From The Laundry Room’, with Bowie and Tom Verlaine’s (Television) double A-side ‘Side By Side/Kingdom’ at number 4, another Record Store Day release. Johnny Marr’s ‘I Feel You’ completes the top 5.

In the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, Manic Street Preachers top the pile with the 20th anniversary edition of ‘The Holy Bible’. Biffy Clyro’s ‘Puzzle’ entered at number 2, Sex Pistols arrived at number 3 with ’Never Mind The Bollocks’, and Happy Mondays take number 4 with ‘Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches’. Bowie also enters the top 5 in the albums charts with the reissue of his self-titled debut album from 1966. All of the top 5 in this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart were exclusive releases from this year’s Record Store Day.

Read the full respective charts on the Official Charts Company website here.