Vinyl sales have risen for 18 successive years and increased rapidly again, up 13% year-on-year to 7.6 million units.
Swift’s Life Of A Showgirl led the pack, and the star scored another entry in the Top 10 with Lover (Live From Paris) – a limited edition release which was only available for 72 hours on Swift’s website.
According to the Official Charts Company, it sold 47,000 copies in that short stretch of time; and subsequently became the first album to reach number one on pure sales (with no streams contributing to its total) in eight years.
Overall, vinyl sales have doubled in the last decade, and are on course to overtake CDs for the first time since the 1990s.
The two formats are now separated by just 2 million sales, with 9.7 million Compact Discs sold in 2025. Ten years ago, that figure was 47.3 million.
Although it’s very much a niche market, cassettes also saw a 53.8% sales increase to 164,491 units in 2025.
The soundtrack to Robbie Williams’ biopic Better Man was, for reasons that remain unclear, the year’s best seller on tape.
