Abbey Road Named 2011’s Best-Selling Vinyl Album

It appears the Beatles' 1969 "Abbey Road" is still a bestseller.  According to Nielson SoundScan, the album is the top-selling vinyl record for a third consecutive year. Fans picked up 41-thousand copies of the album's wax version in 2011, which is an increase from 2009 and 2010.  In fact, vinyl sales in general have increased over the past few years, although they still only made up a little less than four-percent of total music sales in 2011.  As for the rest of last year's vinyl top ten, the Fleet Foxes' "Helplessness Blues" finished second, followed by Bon Iver's Grammy-nominated self-titled effort.  Mumford & Son's "Sigh No More" came in fourth while Radiohead's "The King of Limbs" rounds out the top five.