David Bowie Hits The Top 10 With An Album Fans Have Been Waiting Decades For
David Bowie's Ready Set Go – Live at Riverside Studios debuts on four U.K. charts, hitting the top ... More 10 on three and continuing his posthumous chart dominance. (MANDATORY CREDIT) David Bowie performing at Giant Stadium at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey on August 3, 1987. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns)
David Bowie may be gone, but when it comes to the music charts in the United Kingdom, he's never really left. The late rock legend continues to make regular appearances thanks to a steady stream of vinyl drops and bestselling and streaming-centric compilations that pull from his vast and varied catalog. This week, Bowie is back on multiple tallies in his home country with Ready Set Go - Live at Riverside Studios, a long-awaited release that's been a favorite among fans for decades, even before it was officially available to own.
The recently-issued live album is new to four U.K. rankings this frame. Ready Set Go breaks into the top 10 on three of those lists and nearly does the same on a fourth, proving once again – as if there was ever really any question – that there's still major demand for Bowie's work.
Ready Set Go earns its highest placements on the Official Albums Sales and Official Physical Albums charts. On both tallies, it kicks off at No. 8. It also lands on the Official Vinyl Albums list, debuting at No. 10. The fact that a Bowie offering, released nearly a decade after his death, can launch inside the top 10, is quite the feat.
Finally, the live set makes an appearance on the Official Albums chart, the most important music ranking in the country for full-lengths. The list blends pure sales with streaming data to measure overall popularity. There, Ready Set Go starts at No. 44, just missing the top 40 cutoff.
Bowie has now earned at least two dozen top 10 placements on the Official Albums Sales chart alone, and his total placements on the Official Vinyl Albums ranking recently crossed 50. Few artists have built a posthumous discography as formidable as Bowie's, and his list of wins keeps growing.
Ready Set Go was recorded on September 8, 2003, when Bowie performed a set at Riverside Studios in London. The concert was beamed via satellite to cinemas around the world, which was a novelty at the time and a major event for fans. Reportedly, 50,000 people tuned in to witness the event live.
Now, more than 20 years later, that performance is finally available as an album, on both vinyl and CD. It was released for Record Store Day 2025, and it seems it's one of the big winners of this year's event.
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