The headline LP auction prices
These ten LPs have realised the highest prices at public auction, anchoring the top tier of the global vinyl market.
- Wu-Tang Clan — Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2014, single copy, sold privately for millions).
- Beatles — White Album, serial 0000001 (Ringo’s personal copy, multi-million private sale).
- Beatles — Yesterday and Today, sealed first-state stereo butcher cover.
- John Lennon — Double Fantasy, signed by Lennon for Mark David Chapman (auction record).
- Velvet Underground — acetate LP recovered from a flea market (the Sterling Morrison test pressing).
- Elvis Presley — My Happiness, the Sun Studio acetate (purchased by Jack White).
- Sex Pistols — God Save the Queen, A&M single (recalled within days of release).
- Bob Dylan — The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, four-song variant (mono pressing with withdrawn tracks).
- Frank Wilson — Do I Love You (Indeed I Do), Soul single (Tamla 7-inch, fewer than 5 known copies).
- The Quarrymen — That’ll Be the Day acetate (the pre-Beatles Liverpool acetate).