These are the biggest-selling vinyl albums and singles of 2022 so far

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The organiser behind the biggest coffee event ever to take place in Scotland is hoping to curtail the use of single-use coffee cups in Scotland – by leading by example.

Central Cee, Machine Gun Kelly and Avril Lavigne have been named among the artists who have the best-selling cassettes of 2022 so far.The near-obsolete format has been enjoying a revival in recent years; last year sales of cassettes increased by 13 per cent to its highest total since 2003.While it’s yet to be seen how well the format will perform in 2022 in comparison to previous years, the Official Charts Company has revealed the best-selling cassettes of the year so far.Central Cee boasts the best-selling cassette of 2022 so far with his second mixtape ’23’. The project, which topped the UK Album Chart back in March, has shifted the most first quarter cassettes, helped on by a now-sold-out, special edition yellow cassette, made available alongside its standard edition.The second best-selling cassette of the year is Machine Gun Kelly’s ‘Mainstream Sellout’, who managed to sell enough copies to make the chart in just one week of chart sales.

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Coachella to watch the likes of Billie Eilish, Justin Bieber and Doja Cat perform, attendees were traditionally outlandish in their dress, as they posed for the perfect picture. And as the British festival circuit creeps up, there was plenty of sartorial inspiration to be found in the 125,00-strong crowd that turned out.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“Cheesin’,” the charity single released at the beginning of the global pandemic in 2020, has raised more than $175,000 for MusiCares, the song’s distributor announced on Wednesday. The song, a collaboration between Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, Still Woozy, Sophie Meiers, Claud, Melanie Faye, and HXNS was released via JJ Corsini’s label, Slowplay, in partnership with Republic Records/ Imperial.Since the song’s release, 100 percent of net profits from every stream and download has been donated to MusiCares, the Recording Academy’s charity that supports artists and those in the music community.

Yard Act claim the biggest vinyl album of 2022 so far with debut record The Overload. It tops the Official Charts Company’s end-of-quarter Official Vinyl Chart with ease, selling over 11,000 copies on wax since its initial release in February. 

Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ new album ‘Unlimited Love’ is the best-selling rock album of 2022 so far.The band’s 12th album topped the Billboard 200 chart and the UK albums chart and it has gone to Number One in several other countries since its release last month.So far it has racked up more than 145million streams and 97,500 album sales, according to data shared in a press release.It’s the Californian band’s best-selling album since their 2006 double LP  ‘Stadium Arcadium’ and their first since guitarist John Frusciante returned to the band after leaving following that particular record.In a four-star review of the record, NME’s Ali Shutler wrote: “There’s a lot to ‘Unlimited Love’, both in scale and ambition. It’s at once familiar – without being boring – and fresh (but never at the expense of the band’s identity).”Meanwhile, the band were among a host of artists including U2‘s Bono and Edge, Bruce Springsteen and Elton John who recently joined Global Citizen’s new ‘Stand Up For Ukraine’ campaign.

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Doja Cat and SZA won the Best Pop Duo Performance Award at the 2022 Grammys. They beat out "Butter" by BTS, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga, ("I Get a Kick Out of You"), Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco ("Lonely"), and BTS ("Butter"), but if there were any hard feelings in the room, they evaporated when Doja and SZA took the stage to accept the prize.

Billie Eilish paid touching tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins during the 2022 Grammy Awards. The “Happier Than Ever” artist attended this year’s ceremony, where the rock band received prizes including Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song. During her performance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Eilish wore a black T-shirt with an image of Hawkins emblazoned across the front.