04.05.20 – L.dK Weekly

DUA LIPA’S FUTURE NOSTALGIA SNARES FIFTH WEEK AT THE TOP AND BECOMES 2020’S TOP-SELLING ALBUM!

PLUS: Regina Spektor debuts at No.7.

For a fifth consecutive week, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia sits comfortably at the top of L.dK Weekly, moving 130,000 units this time around (down 15 percent).

Future is just the ninth album to spend at least five weeks at the summit, and is currently tied with Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, Lorde’s Melodrama and Stevie Nicks’ The Other Side of the Mirror (which all led the list for five weeks) for the 6th longest command of the chart.

With total sales of 897,000 to date, Lipa’s smash has now become the bestselling album of 2020. It unseats Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell which has moved 803,000 since the start of the year.

Holding at her No.2 peak for a third successive week is Alanis Morissette with her compilation The Collection. The LP dropped by 16 percent this week to move 121,000 copies: with total sales of 422,000 it currently ranks as the 10th bestselling album of 2020.

The Weeknd sticks at No.3 with After Hours (62,000 – down 17 percent) while HEART’s self-titled set bounces 6-4 (33,000 – down 14 percent) earning an eighth week in the Top Five.

Capping the Top Five is Tori Amos’ stationary Little Earthquakes (33,000 – down 20 percent). The alternative release has now spent 20 weeks on L.dK, after peaking at No.2 in November 2019.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell rebounds 7-6 (30,000 – down 10 percent); Selena Gomez’ Rare steps up 9-8 (25,000 – on par); Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters slides 4-9 in its second week, going Silver with over 60,000 total sales (23,000 – down 53 percent); and Florence + the Machine drop 8-10 with How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (23,000 – down 18 percent).

Opening at No.7 with Begin to Hope (2006) is Regina Spektor. The album sold a respectable 28,000 units in its first week.

Industry: This week, music sales totalled 907,000, sliding by 9.4% from the previous week’s haul of 1.001 million.

Onto next week: There are no releases scheduled for this tracking week.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.29 – Infections of a Different Kind / AURORA’s EP (2018) first impacted L.dK in June 2019 along with her second studio album A Different Kind of Human. The sets would debut back-to-back in the Top Ten, Human at No.5 and Infections at No.6. While Human would peak at No.2, the latter would never climb into the Top Five, however it would follow in the footsteps of Human by achieving chart longevity. It has lived on the list for 33 weeks in total and as it climbs 35-29 (7,000) it crosses sales of 300,000, earning it a Platinum certification. For reference: Human this week moves 25-27 (8,000) in its 41st week, with total sales of 560,000.

No.32 – Bella Donna & No.44 – The Wild Heart / Stevie Nicks’ debut solo and sophomore albums both cross major milestones in music this week. The former dives 24-32 (7,000) and becomes just the 14th album to sell over 1.2 million copies. Bella Donna is Nicks’ second release to be certified Quadruple Platinum, following her best-of Crystal Visions (1.266 million).

The Wild Heart meanwhile lifts 46-44 (4,000) and earns the distinction of becoming the 20th album to surpass 1 million copies sold.

The Top 50

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