Indie is the new mainstream! Independent label musicians Raye, The Damned and Kylie among artists who now make up a third of ALL sales as Arctic Monkeys and Blur spearhead continuing vinyl revival, ac

Indie is the new mainstream, a major new study suggests - with independent label acts such as BRITs record-breaker Raye now making up a third of all music sales. Raye won a record six BRIT Awards at last month's 2024 ceremony - she is seen here performing at the Coachella festival in California last Saturday Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue was given this year's Global Icon prize at the BRITs The Arctic Monkeys, frontted by Alex Turner - pictured performing at the Glastonbury Festival in June last year - were among the top 10 bestselling artists on vinyl last year Punk veterans The Damned, seen here at Manchester Arena in June 2018, have also been highlighted in today's newly-published annual yearbook by industry body the BPI The UK's bestselling artists on vinyl in 2023 1 Taylor Swift 2 Lana Del Rey 3 Pink Floyd 4 The Rolling Stones 5 The Arctic Monkeys 6 Fleetwood Mac 7 The Beatles 8 Oasis 9 David Bowie 10 Blur Sources: BPI analysis/Official Charts Company Independently-released music made up 29.2 per cent of Album Equivalent Sales, according to the British Phonographic Industry's 45th annual yearbook. Blur, who played the Coachella festival on Saturday, were among the top-selling bands on vinyl Vinyl record sales at the end of last year hit a new UK high for the 21st century Kylie Minogue and Raye were both winners at this years BRITs - and have now been celebrated in the BPI's annual report as triumphs for independent label artists Almost 400 indie singles and albums reached new BRIT Certified Platinum, Gold or Silver award levels last year. Freya Ridings, filmed here performing on the BBC's Graham Norton Show in February 2022, is among the independent label-signed artists to have gone platinum in sales last year Rapper AJ Tracey, seen at the Laneway Festival in Perth in Australia last February, has been celebrated in today's All About The Music handbook Also hailed is singer-songwriter Arlo Parks, seen on stage in San Francisco in September 2022 Rotherham indie band the Reytons released third LP Ballad Of A Bystander in January this year New albums by chart stars such as Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Lewis Capaldi helped take pop vinyl sales from 19.6 per cent of the market in 2022 to 23.6 per cent. Young female Gen Z fans of Taylor Swift are helping fuel a surge in vinyl sales Casisdead won this year's BRIT prize for Best Hip Hop/Grime/Rap act Ex-Steps member Claire Richards, pictured performing at Brighton and Hove Pride last August, reached number two in the UK album charts the following month with Euphoria The Rolling Stones - left to right, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, performing last October - topped the charts with latest album Hackney Diamonds Kate Bush, pictured in 1978, is official ambassador for this year's upcoming Record Store Day HMV reopened its flagship Oxford Street branch partly due to confidence in the vinyl revival HMV's boss Phil Halliday has previously told MailOnline Gen Z vinyl fans shopping for modern acts was a cause for optimism as his retail firm recently reopened its flagship Oxford Street branch in central London.