Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs was the fifth best selling vinyl album of 2011 with a total of 20,800 copies sold.   The Beatles 1969 album Abbey Road was the best selling vinyl album of 2011 with 41,000 copies sold.

The Beatles Abbey Road has been the best selling vinyl album now for the past three years, and was the second best selling vinyl album back in 2008 only to Radiohead’s In Rainbows.

Vinyl sales  accounted for 3.9 percent of total music sales for the year according to Rolling Stone and been increasing over the past few year.

The top 10 vinyl albums of 2011:

1. The Beatles – Abbey Road (41,000)
2. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (29,700)
3. Bon Iver – Bon Iver (27,200)
4. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (26,800)
5. Radiohead – The King of Limbs (20,800)
6. Adele – 21 (16,500)
7. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (16,200)
8. Wilco – The Whole Love (14,900)
9. The Black Keys – Brothers (14,200)
10. The Black Keys – El Camino(13,800)

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