27.04.20 – L.dK Weekly

DUA LIPA’S FUTURE NOSTALGIA CELEBRATES A MONTH AT NO.1!

PLUS: Fiona Apple enters in the Top Five.

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia logs a fourth successive week atop L.dK selling a further 152,000 copies (down 11 percent): it is the first album of 2020 to spend an entire month at the top spot. Previously both Halsey’s Manic and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell ruled for three weeks this year (Rockwell also lodged itself at No.1 for fourteen straight weeks in 2019).

Future has sold 767,000 to date, making it the second bestselling record of 2020 so far: Rockwell narrowly retains the title – of the album’s total haul of 2.65 million units, 773,000 copies have come since the new year.

Alanis Morissette’s The Collection holds at its No.2 high as it declines by just 10 percent, selling 143,000 copies. The greatest hits compilation has moved just over 300,000 units and has already been certified Platinum after just two weeks.

The Weeknd’s former No.1 After Hours is unmoved at No.3 with 74,000 units (down 11 percent) in its fifth week. The R&B set – which has yet to leave the Top Five – continues to stake its claim as one of the biggest albums by a solo male on L.dK.

Double Platinum: Despite being on sale for less than two months, After has already crossed 600,000 in sales, being the first album by a solo male artist to achieve the feat. In-fact only three albums by male soloists have achieved Platinum status: Harry Styles’ Fine Line, Troye Sivan’s Bloom and Sam Smith’s The Thrill of it All.

After’s stellar performance has allowed it to quickly become the third bestselling album of 2020 – assuming The Weeknd can maintain his place in the Top Five then it will be the first LP by a male soloist to do so.

Debuting at No.4 this week is Fiona Apple’s newly-released Fetch the Bolt Cutters, as it bows with 48,000 copies sold. This marks Apple’s first visit to L.dK.

Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes falls 4-5 after hitting No.2 (41,000 – down 5 percent).

HEART’s self-titled smash drops 5-6 (38,000 – on par) after spending its first seven weeks inside the Top Five – earlier this year, Heart became the band’s first No.1 (and first Top Five).

Three of the bestselling smashes of 2020 follow in the Top Ten: Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell slips 6-7 (33,000 – down 6 percent); Florence + the Machine bump 9-8 with How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (28,000 – up 21 percent), pushing Selena Gomez’ Rare back from No.7 to No.9 (25,000 – down 11 percent).

Conan Gray’s Kid Krow is steady at No.10 in its fifth week on the chart (22,000 – up 14 percent).

Industry: With sales of 1.001 million, total consumption slips by just 1.2% this week. It marks the third time that total activity has crossed the 1 million threshold, and second in a row.

Onto next week: Regina Spektor will make her first appearance on L.dK with the retrospective release of her 2006 album Begin to Hope. Similar to Fiona Apple’s Fetch, the effort could debut inside the Top Five with upwards of 40,000 units.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.32 – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks third album (1985) falls 27-32 in its 64th week on L.dK moving 6,000 copies. The rock album has now been certified Triple Platinum – denoting sales of over 900,000 units. Rock is the 22nd album to sell more than 900,000 copies, and is Nicks’ sixth such record. Her albums Bella Donna, The Other Side of the Mirror, The Wild Heart, 24 Karat Gold, and now Rock a Little have all been awarded Triple Platinum status. Her compilation Crystal Visions remains her biggest seller, and her only album to be certified Quadruple Platinum (1.2 million).

No.40 – Devotion / The 2012 debut album from one of L.dK’s biggest success stories, Jessie Ware, has just become a Gold record. As it flies 50-40 with 5,000 copies, it brings its total sales figure to 103,000. Ware’s two other albums Tough Love (2014) and Glasshouse (2017) have been certified Platinum and Triple Platinum respectively.

No.48 – Tango in the Night / Fleetwood Mac’s 1987 hit inches 49-48 as it celebrates its chart anniversary: Tango is the 13th album to spend an entire year (or 52 weeks) on L.dK. The album – which ruled the chart for three weeks in 2017 and was once the top-selling album ever – has sold over 800,000 to date.

The Top 50

1. [=/4] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
2. [=] The Collection – Alanis Morissette
3. [=] After Hours – The Weeknd
4. [NEW] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple
5. [-1] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
6. [-1] Heart – HEART
7. [-1] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
8. [+1] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
9. [-2] Rare -Selena Gomez
10. [=] Kid Krow – Conan Gray
11. [-3] GIRL – Maren Morris
12. [+2] Heartbreak Weather – Niall Horan
13. [-1] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
14. [-3] Fine Line – Harry Styles
15. [-2] Birdy – Birdy
16. [-1] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
17. [=] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS
18. [+3] The Whole Story – Kate Bush
19. [-3] Medusa – Annie Lennox
20. [-1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
21. [-1] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa
22. [-4] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware
23. [=] Diva – Annie Lennox
24. [+2] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks
25. [=] A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
26. [+4] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods
27. [-3] Lover – Taylor Swift
28. [+3] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen
29. [-7] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
30. [-2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande
31. [+2] Melodrama – Lorde
32. [-5] Rock a Little – Stevie Nicks
33. [+1] 21 – Adele
34. [+3] Pure Heroine – Lorde
35. [-6] Infections of a Different Kind – AURORA
36. [+4] Bloom – Troye Sivan
37. [+1] Madame X – Madonna
38. [-3] Dancing Queen – Cher
39. [=] Queen- Nicki Minaj
40. [+10] Devotion – Jessie Ware
41. [-5] Honeymoon – Lana Del Rey
42. [+2] Bad Animals – HEART
43. [+5] Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
44. [-2] thank u, next – Ariana Grande
45. [-4] 19 – Adele
46. [=] The Wild Heart – Stevie Nicks
47. [re] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
48. [+1] Tango in the Night – Fleetwood Mac
49. [-6] Compilation 1:1 – Celeste
50. [-18] Heart of Stone – Cher