The best-selling cassettes of 2023 have been revealed - here’s who made the top 20

Virgin Radio

3 Jan 2024, 15:18

If you still enjoy listening to your Walkman, have a tape deck in your car, or simply like doing that cool thing where you rewind/fast-forward using a pencil, then you’ll be interested to learn that the biggest selling cassettes of 2023 have been named. 

Yes, following the continued resurgence of vinyl, cassettes have also been back on the scene for a while, and last year it was announced that sales across 2022 were at a record high since 2003.

The top twenty list of cassette sales for 2023 includes plenty of big names, with Olivia Rodrigo coming out on top with her second album, Guts. It featured her massive single, Vampire.

Olivia beat last year’s top selling cassette artist, Ed Sheeran, whose latest offering, - (Subtract), came in at number two. Kylie Minogue’s Tension landed at number three. Inhaler’s Cuts & Bruises and the latest Blur album, The Ballad of Darren, made up the top five, as announced by Official Charts.  

Elsewhere in the top ten were albums from Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi, while McFly, Busted, Taylor Swift, Foo Fighters and Noel Gallagher were among those in the top 20.

Here’s the full list: 

1. Guts - Olivia Rodrigo

2. - (Subtract) - Ed Sheeran

3. Tension - Kylie Minogue

4. Cuts & Bruises - Inhaler

5. The Ballad Of Darren - Blur

6. Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under - Lana Del Rey

7. Take Me Back To Eden - Sleep Token

8. Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent - Lewis Capaldi

9. Unreal Unearth - Hozier

10. Live With The Bbc Philharmonic Orchestra - 1975

11. The Album - Jonas Brothers

12. Power To Play - Mcfly

13. Greatest Hits 2.0 - Busted

14. From Nothing To A Little Bit More - The Lathums

15. Good Riddance - Gracie Abrams

16. 1989 (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

17. But Here We Are - Foo Fighters

18. Council Skies - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

19. So Much (For) Stardust - Fall Out Boy

20. Cracker Island - Gorillaz