The Red Hot Chili Peppers have topped the vinyl charts with their new album UNLIMITED LOVE. Right behind them are Tool, The Hellacopters and Jack White. Re-releases were particularly popular this April, as determined by GfK Entertainment.
Red Hot Chili Peppers take 1st place
“Each of the songs on our new album is a facet of us and reflects our view of the universe,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers said of their new record, which has been made in collaboration with long-time renegade John Frusciante. The message seems to have got through to the fans: the record is in first place in the German vinyl charts for April.
Second place went to Tool with FEAR INOCULUM, who are otherwise rather reserved when it comes to records and surprised with the vinyl version of the album released in 2019. Swedish rock band The Hellacopters take third place with EYES OF OBLIVION. Jack White’s record FEAR OF THE DAWN, which was released in April, made it to fourth place.
Numerous re-releases characterize the vinyl charts
Popular re-releases come from Cro, who holds fifth place with 2017’s TRU, The Police (Greatest Hits, sixth), and Slipknot (SLIPKNOT, ninth). Tyler, The Creators CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST from 2021 makes it to eleventh place). ENDORAMA, an album by thrash metal band Kreator, first released in 1999, is at number 12. Nirvana are also represented with NEVERMIND, at number 20.
The debut album WET LEG by the band of the same name debuted at number seven on the April vinyl charts. Fontaines DC took eighth place with their new release SKINTY FIA. Placebo, who received first place for their new album NEVER LET ME GO in March, are now in tenth place.
Local artists are also popular
American alternative country rockers Calexico released their home-recorded record EL MIRADOR in early April. The vinyl version of the album is now at number 13. BAP’s Wolfgang Niedecken recorded his love for Bob Dylan on DYLANREISE and is rewarded with number 14.
Further new releases from Germany can be found in the next places: Axel Rudi Pell with “Lost XXIII” (15), ALL WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING TAT WEH by Casper (16) and AM KÄFIG RÜTTELN by the hip-hop group Waving the Guns. Before Tocotronics NIE WIEDER KRIEG (19) comes the record IMMUTABLE by the Swedish metal formation Meshuggah.
The Official German Vinyl Charts are compiled by GfK Entertainment on behalf of the Bundesverband Musikindustrie eV. The monthly hit lists are based on sales and usage data from 2,800 dealers.
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