25.05.2020 – L.dK Weekly

DUA LIPA NARROWLY WINS EIGHTH WEEK AT THE SUMMIT; ALANIS MORISSETTE TIES A RECORD AT NO.2!

PLUS: Hayley Williams reaches the Top Five, Carly Rae Jepsen debuts at No.6!

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia finds itself in familiar territory, at the top of L.dK Weekly – a spot where it has stayed now for eight consecutive weeks. It now stands alone as the fourth-longest running number one album of all time.

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. Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa – 8 weeks
5. Love + Fear / MARINA – 7 weeks

While Future wins an eighth straight term at the summit, and extends its record as the longest-running No.1 of 2020, it does so with the smallest sales lead possible, beating Alanis Morrissette’s The Collection to No.1 by a margin of just 1,000 sales.

Future drops by 10 percent – moving 81,000 units – while Collection slips by just 5 percent to 80,000 sold. The latter album has now spent six straight weeks at No.2 without hitting No.1 – tying it with Ariana Grande’s K Bye for Now which also spent six weeks in the runner up spot, never topping the chart.

While Morissette looks primed to outsell Lipa in the coming weeks, a new release may just surpass her: it debuts further down the list this week…

The Weeknd’s After Hours lifts 5-3 (35,000 – down 8 percent) after topping the chart dated March 30th earlier this year.

Hayley Williams meanwhile reaches her highest ever rank on L.dK as Petals for Armor bolts 8-4 in its second week, increasing by 36 percent to 34,000 sold. Just beneath Williams: Fiona Apple’s No.4 peaking Fetch the Bolt Cutters ticks 6-5 for a second week in the Top Five (31,000 – up 10 percent).

Debuting at No.6 with just a single day of activity – in which it earned 30,000 units – is Carly Rae Jepsen’s new Dedicated Side B. The album was surprise-released on the final day of the tracking week, and so debuts with only a partial sales week. Side B follows Dedicated which ruled the roost for two weeks in May-June 2019, and last week was certified 3 x Platinum for sales of over 900,000 units.

Side B looks set to challenge for the No.1 spot, potentially looking to sell around 100,000 copies – it would nab Jepsen her second No.1 record.

Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk slides 3-7 in its second week (25,000 – down 46 percent) as it goes Silver with sales exceeding 60,000 copies. This is the sixth album from Fleetwood Mac to reach this threshold.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell rebounds 9-8 moving 25,000 copies (up 4 percent). The album – which previously spent a record 17 weeks at No.1 – now ranks among the top five longest-running top ten albums in history. Del Rey is currently the only artist to feature on the list twice.

1. Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks – 46 weeks
2. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 45 weeks
3. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 42 weeks
4. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks
5. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 38 weeks

Capping the Top Ten: HEART are down 7-9 with their self-titled set (24,000 – down 12 percent), which earns a 12th week in the Top Ten, and Florence + the Machine shift 12-10 with How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (21,000 – on par).

Industry: Total consumption was down just 1.02% to 784,000 in the most recent tracking week.

Onto next week: Carly Rae Jepsen’s Dedicated Side B could sell anywhere in the region of 90-110k in its first full week, while The 1975’s Notes on a Conditional Form could achieve a Top Ten debut with 20-30k sold.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.15 – Medusa / Annie Lennox’ 1995 solo album edges 16-15 with sales of 16,000 units in its 42nd charting week. The most recent haul takes its lifetime sales figure to a whopping 1.501 million, making it just the eighth album to sell as many units, being certified 5 x Platinum (1.5 million). More impressively: Medusa isn’t Lennox’ first record to earn this distinction, as her 1992 solo debut Diva has sold 1.66 million to date. The latter steps 21-20 this week with 11,000 sold.

No.22 – K Bye for Now / Ariana Grande’s live-album peaked at No.2 in January this year, eventually staying there for a record six weeks (a mark it now shares), and remained in the Top Ten for a total of 10 weeks. One of 2020’s biggest releases, the set has now been certified 2 x Platinum for sales of over 600,000 units. It joins Grande’s two previous albums – Sweetener and thank u, next – which are certified 5 x Platinum and 3 x Platinum respectively.

No.38 – Back to Black / The final album from Amy Winehouse before her death, Back to Black has now become the singer’s first album to spend 52 weeks, or an entire year on L.dK. The iconic release has sold more than 1,000,000 copies.

The Top 50

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