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Record Collecting

What were the most collected albums of 2024?

Vinyl sales have been increasing by double digits every year since 2024. Some buyers actually play their records, but others are concerned just with collecting them. Discogs.com tracks this sort of thing and according to their data, these were the 25 most collected vinyl albums that were released in 2024. (Read all the details here.)

  1. The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift
  2. Brat, Charlie XCX
  3. Hit Me Hard and Soft, Billie Eilish
  4. Short N’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter
  5. Songs of a Lost World, The Cure (Not bad for an album that just came out on November 1.)
  6. Eternal Sunshine, Ariana Grande
  7. Radical Optimism, Dua Lipa
  8. Cowboy Carter, Beyonce
  9. The Rise & Fall of a Midwest Prince, Chappel Roan
  10. Dark Matter, Pearl Jam
  11. Wall of Eyes, The Smile
  12. Saviors, Green Day
  13. Romances, Fontaines DC
  14. Invincible Shield, Judas Priest
  15. Deeper Well, Kacey Musgrove
  16. Clancy, Twenty One Pilots
  17. Tangk, IDLES
  18. Prelude to Ecstasy, The Last Dinner Party
  19. The Secrets of Us, Gracie Abrams
  20. Luck and Strange, David Gilmour
  21. NO NAME, Jack White
  22. Wild God, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  23. A La Sala, Khruangbin
  24. Papercuts AND From Zero, Linkin Park
  25. Moon Music, Coldplay

Alan Cross

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