List of 20 most valuable vinyl records that could earn you up to £5,000

Do you have any of these records in your collection? If so, you might be sitting on a small fortune.

A new study has revealed 20 records that could get you thousands of pounds. Scottish debt specialist Carrington Dean used eBay purchasing data to show how much popular records have been auctioned off for over the past six months.

In their list, The Beatles took the top spot with their 1963 pressing of Please Please Me, with fans paying up to £5,100 for an original copy. When initially released, the Fab Four’s first album held the number one place in the charts for 30 weeks.

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David Bowie’s Space Oddity and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon followed behind at £3,200 and £3,150. Nostalgic music still proves popular with big 60’s artists like David Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who and Led Zeppelin topping the table of the most valuable pressings, averaging at £3,216.

Only two albums post-millennia made it into the top 20, Beyoncé's 2016 boxset, How to make Lemonade (£2,750), and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way from 2011 (£1,300), reports WalesOnline.

Layla Johnson, regional manager at Carrington Dean, said: "Often left on display or tucked away in a box, the value of records is constantly changing and evolving. Whether you’re strapped for cash or are just curious about how much you could fetch for your old records, it may be worth taking those old pressings down to your local record store to see how much they are worth and potentially gain a nice bonus during these challenging times."

Here is the list of most valuable vinyl records:

1. The Beatles - Please Please Me (album) 1963 - Sold for: £5,100.00;
2. David Bowie - Space Oddity (single) 1969 - Sold for: £3,200.00;
3. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (album) 1973 - Sold for: £3,151.00;
4. Beyoncé - How To Make Lemonade (boxset) 2016 - Sold for: £2,750.00;
5. David Bowie - The Deram Anthology (album) 1967 - Sold for: £2,700.00;
6. The Beatles - The Beatles White Album (album) 1968 - Sold for £2,650.00;
7. The Who - Zoot Suit (single) 1964 - Sold for: £2,500.00;
8. Led Zeppelin - 1 (album) 1969 - Sold for: £2,400.00;
9. Elvis Presley - Christmas Album (album) 1957 - Sold for: £2,111.55;
10. Elvis Presley - Milkcow Blues Boogie (single) 1954 - Sold for £2,100.00;
11. Paul McCartney - McCartney (album) 1970 - Sold for: £1,999.99;
12. Led Zeppelin - 2 (album) 1969 - Sold for: £1,636.37;
13. Santana - Abraxas (album) 1970 - Sold for: £1,450.00;
14. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin (album) 1963 - Sold for: £1,440.57;
15. Elvis Presley - Money Honey (album) 1957 - Sold for: £1,424.43;
16. Queen - Night at the Opera (album) 1975 - Sold for: £1,415.34;
17. The Beatles - Revolver (album) 1966 - Sold for: £1,341.00;
18. Lady Gaga - Born this way (album) 2011 - Sold for: £1,300.00;
19. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (album) 1965 - Sold for: £1,121.62;
20. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (album) 1987 - Sold for: £1,035.39.

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