18.05.20 – L.dK Weekly

DUA LIPA’S FUTURE NOSTALGIA LEADS BUSY TOP TEN

PLUS: Fleetwood Mac & Hailee Steinfeld debut in the Top Five, while Hayley Williams matches her highest rank.

Despite an influx of new records in the Top Ten, Dua Lipa once again remains at the top spot, collecting a seventh successive week on the throne, selling 90,000 copies (down 19 percent).

With seven weeks at the summit, Future is now tied with MARINA’s Love + Fear as the fourth longest-running number one hit ever.

1. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 17 weeks
2. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 12 weeks
3. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 11 weeks
4. Love + Fear / MARINA – 7 weeks
5. Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa – 7 weeks

Up next: Alanis Morissette’s The Collection keeps at its No.2 peak for a sixth straight frame, with sales of 84,000 units (down 17 percent). The greatest hits collection is now tied with Ariana Grande’s live set K Bye for Now for the most weeks at No.2 without hitting No.1. The album has now been certified 2 x Platinum, with sales of 607,000 to date.

Fleetwood Mac score their sixth Top Five album as Tusk debuts at No.3. The album – originally released in 1979 – sold 46,000 copies in its first seven days. While Tusk follows five previous efforts from the Mac into the Top Five, it currently ranks as their second lowest-charting, ahead of only their 1975 self-titled debut which hit No.5. The band have scored three chart-toppers with 1977’s Rumours (5 weeks), 1987’s Tango in the Night (3 weeks) and their compilation Greatest Hits from 1988 (1 week), while also climbing to No.2 with Mirage (1982).

Tusk may already be a Top Five hit, but it has big shoes to fill, as all of Fleetwood Mac’s albums have been certified Gold (Fleetwood Mac), Platinum (Greatest Hits), or Multi-Platinum (Mirage & Tango in the Night) with Rumours being certified 5 x Platinum.

Entering the chart at No.4 is Half Written Story – the EP grants Hailee Steinfeld her first hit on L.dK. It bows with 45,000 sold, with 15,000 derived from pre-sales.

Dropping from No.3 to No.5 is The Weeknd’s former No.1 album After Hours (38,000 – down 24 percent).

Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters edges 7-6 after peaking at No.4 (28,000 – up 12 percent), while HEART slide 4-7 with their self-titled set (27,000 – down 7 percent).

New at No.8 is Hayley Williams’ debut solo album Petals for Armor (25,000). The album matches the peak of Williams’ debut EP Petals for Armor, I as the singer’s highest-charting hit on L.dK.

Capping the Top Ten: Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell plummets 5-9 in its 37th week in the Top Ten (24,000 – down 15 percent) while Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes slides 6-10 (24,000 – down 15 percent).

Industry: Gaining 1.6% over last week, consumption totalled 792,000 units in the most recent tracking week.

Onto next week: There are no scheduled releases for the coming week.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.15 – It Was Good, Until It Wasn’t / Kehlani’s new album makes its debut at No.15 with 15,000 units in its first week. The album had originally been expected to debut within the Top Ten.

No.24 – GIRL / Country star Maren Morris now has her first Platinum album with GIRL. The album sinks 14-24 this week selling 10,000 units, and has sold 305,000 copies to date.

No.25 – The Other Side of the Mirror / Stevie Nicks’ fourth studio album (1989) re-enters at No.25 on the 31st anniversary of its original release, moving 10,000 copies and earning a 54th week inside the Top 50. The album has sold more than 1 million units and led the chart for five weeks in 2017.

No.28 – Map of the Soul: 7 / BTS become the first K-Pop group to attain Platinum status, with their latest set. The former chart-topper sinks 23-28 (8,000) and has sold 307,000 since release.

No.29 – Dedicated / Carly Rae Jepsen had one of the biggest record of 2019 with Dedicated, which peaked at No.1 for two consecutive weeks, and as it moves 26-29 (8,000) in its 38th charting week, the album becomes one of less than twenty-five releases to be certified Triple Platinum – denoting sales of over 900,000 copies.

The Top 50

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