Amy Winehouse: Back To Black (20th anniversary, indie exclusive chalkboard marble vinyl) [ISLAND]

Why you'll love it

This indie exclusive chalkboard marble pressing marks 20 years of Back To Black, Amy Winehouse's second and final studio album. It has sold some 20 million copies worldwide, and Mark Ronson, Salaam Remi and the Dap-Kings helped her build its sound.

This edition

• 20th anniversary edition
• Indie exclusive chalkboard marble vinyl

About the album

Winehouse cut the songs between 2005 and 2006, first with Salaam Remi in Miami, then with Mark Ronson and Sharon Jones' band, the Dap-Kings, in New York. The brief was the pop and soul of the 1960s girl groups, and what came out sounds like those records turned inside out, with contemporary R&B and neo-soul running through the middle.

The heartbreak at the centre of it is real, and she wrote about it with a bluntness and wit few singers have matched. "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good" open the album with a swagger, "Love Is a Losing Game" closes the first side quietly devastated, and "Tears Dry on Their Own" lifts a Motown groove straight into her own world.

Twenty years on, it stands among the best-selling albums of all time. If you've somehow gone this long without a copy, the chalkboard marble is a handsome place to start.

Tracklist

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Out October 23, 2026 on Island (cat# 5769023), a reissue of the 2006 album.