Fast-moving, dynamic, fun – vinyl charts beat mainstream top 40s hands down

Vinyl single and album countdowns represent only a small fraction of the market, but are where music seems to come aliveThose who claim pop charts are “all the same” and “nowhere near as exciting as when I was younger” should be directed forthwith to the vinyl charts. Here, they can discover a beautiful mess of miscellany. It stacks up to a parallel universe that comes close to the kind of romanticised and idealised charts some people carry in their heads and use as yardsticks for judgme