Taylor Swift and Rolling Stones drive Christmas surge in UK vinyl sales

Greater than 250,000 vinyl data have been bought final week, probably the most because the flip of the century

Vinyl data have been a surprise hit this Christmas, with weekly gross sales within the UK soaring to their highest degree this century in the course of the festive purchasing interval, fuelled by artists including Taylor Swift, Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

The vinyl record resurgence, with a brand new era of music lovers turning to retro formats akin to LPs and cassettes, has fuelled a gross sales surge to their highest annual level since Elton John’s Sacrifice and Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby topped the charts in 1990.