National Album Day announces exclusive album releases and classic reissues for its annual event on 18 October – this year celebrating rock

19 September 2025 - Press release

 

60 album titles, including by: 

AMY MACDONALD, ARCHITECTS, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, DINOSAUR JR, ELVIS PRESLEY, GHOST, GOOD CHARLOTTE, HOLE, IGGY POP, JIMI HENDRIX, JUDAS PRIEST, KASABIAN, KISS, LIAM GALLAGHER, MANIC STREET PREACHERS, MEGADETH, PATTI SMITH, QUEEN, SEX PISTOLS, SKIN, STATUS QUO, STEREOPHONICS, THE ROLLING STONES, YEAH, YEAH YEAHS, YES, AND MANY MORE

 

National Album Day today announces the list of albums that are being given an exclusive limited edition release for this annual event taking place on Saturday 18th October, which this year is themed around rock music. The albums, a blend of classic reissues and new releases, will be available to purchase through independent and specialist music stores across the UK and online/via digital platforms on National Album Day, with many available for pre-order from today. See full list at the end.

Now in its eighth edition since being launched by the BPI and ERA in association with broadcast partner BBC Radio 2 in 2018, National Album Day (NAD) celebrates the 'art of the album' and artists being able to tell their authentic stories through a much-loved format that has seen its sales on vinyl rise consecutively by a combined 3163% over the past 17 years. 

Earlier this week, Wolf Alice, Architects, Nova Twins, and metal icons Iron Maiden were announced as NAD Album Champions as passionate advocates of a genre that remains at the heart of British music (over 50% of all Official Chart Vinyl album sales in 2024).

A breadth of collectible classic and contemporary recordings by a diverse range of rock artists, many presented in limited edition coloured vinyl, are being released. The list of 60 titles is led by the 50th Anniversary Edition of Queen's iconic A Night At The Opera, featuring Bohemian Rhapsody.  The album is being given a world-wide release (on crystal clear vinyl & gold labels), and in the UK is being re-issued to coincide with NAD. Amy Macdonald's much-loved sophomore LP from 2010, A Curious Thing, is included in the line up, while Scotland is also represented by The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy, and Teenage Fanclub's Grand Prix. Flying the flag for Wales is Stereophonics' Language. Sex. Violence. Other? and Manic Street Preachers' This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. Punk and new wave get a shout through Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks, and The Stranglers' Rattus Norvegicus. Besides Queen, a number of other albums are celebrating their 50th anniversaries, including Patti Smith's acclaimed debut, Horses, Status Quo's On The Level, and Steve Hillage's Fish Rising. Other legendary icons are present in the form of Elvis Presley From Elvis in Memphis, Lou Reed Transformer, Jimi Hendrix Axis: Bold As Love, and The Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request. In a Summer where Oasis rekindled our love affair with Britpop, Liam Gallagher's As You Were is included in the NAD list along with offerings from many other contemporary artists, including SKIN, Architects, Kasabian, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 

Full list of National Album Day titles below (click HERE for assets) and NOTES for selected album appreciations:

 

Allman Brothers - Idlewild South

Amy MacDonald - A Curious Thing

Architects - Holy Hell

Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together

Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage

Badfinger - Magic Christian Music

Bill Wyman - Stone Alone 

Black Mountain - Black Mountain

Dinosaur Jr - Swap It Into Space

Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Memphis

Ghost - Meliora

Good Charlotte - The Young And The Hopeless

Hole - Live Through This

Hope Of The States - The Lost Riots

Ian Gillan Band - Live From The Budokan

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power 1LP classic version

Iggy Pop - The Idiot

Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love

John Lees' Barclay James Harvest - Relativity

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Kasabian - Empire

Kiss - Love Gun

Liam Gallagher- As You Were

Lou Reed - Transformer

Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying and the Dead

Mozart Estate- Tower Block In A Jam Jar

New Model Army - Thunder and Consolation

Patti Smith - Horses

Porridge Radio - Every Bad (Deluxe)

Procol Harum - Procol Harum (Reissue)

Queen - A Night At The Opera

Reef - Replenish

Sabaton - Legends

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks

SKIN - Fake Chemical State

Status Quo - On The Level (50th Anniversary)

Stereophonics - Language. Sex. Violence. Other?

Steve Hillage - Fish Rising (50th Anniversary Edition) (Reissue)

T. Rex - Bolan's Zip Gun (50th Anniversary)

T'Pau - Bridge Of Spies

Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix

The Band - The Band

The Coral - The Invisible Invasion

The Fall - The Unutterable (Reissue)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (Colour Vinyl)

The Mission - Blue

The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request

The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus (Translucent Green Vinyl)

The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?

The Verve - A Northern Soul

UFO - Phenomenon

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down

Yes - Ready To Fly (Return Trip) (Reissue)

Yes - Big Generator

 

Please check music retail websites for album pre-order details.