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

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

Vinyl data have been a shock hit this Christmas, with weekly gross sales in the UK soaring to their highest degree this century through the festive purchasing period, 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 similar to LPs and cassettes, has fuelled a sales surge to their highest annual level since Elton John’s Sacrifice and Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby topped the charts in 1990.