22.06.2020 – L.dK Weekly

LADY GAGA ADDS THIRD STRAIGHT WEEK AT NO.1!

PLUS: Chloe x Halle start in the Top Five with Ungodly Hour.

Lady Gaga’s Chromatica sold 166,000 copies in the tracking week, down by 17 percent compared to the previous week, easily earning the smash a third consecutive week at No.1 on L.dK Weekly.

Alanis Morissette’s The Collection holds at No.2 for a record-extending eighth (non-consecutive) week, moving 68,000 copies (down 4 percent). The compilation set from 2005 has now sold a massive 966,000 units, and has been certified 3 x Platinum for sales exceeding 900,000 copies.

Also staying put at No.3 is Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (which previously led for eight weeks) with 65,000 sales (down 7 percent). It sits just above Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor – at its No.4 peak for a fourth total week – selling 52,000 copies (up 6 percent).

Opening at No.5: Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour sold 47,000 copies in its first week, enough for a No.5 start on the list. The R&B set is the first album from the duo to chart on L.dK.

Following a one-week stint at the top spot in May, Carly Rae Jepsen’s Dedicated Side B sinks 5-6 (34,000 – down 27 percent). Meanwhile, holding at No.7 is The Weeknd’s No.1 hit After Hours (31,000 – down 6 percent), and sticking at No.7 is Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple’s No.4 peaking set (30,000 – up 3 percent).

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell repeats at No.9 with 24,000 sold (down 11 percent). The longest-running number-one album ever has now spent a whopping 42 weeks in the Top Ten – this accounts for the album’s entire chart run, dating to its No.1 debut last September. 42 weeks equals the stay of A Star is Born among the longest-running Top Ten albums in history.

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. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 42 weeks
5. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks

Cher’s self-titled caps the Top Ten this week, sliding to No.10 off a No.6 debut last week, moving 23,000 copies (down 36 percent).

Industry: Music consumption totalled 899,000 this week, down 2.9% from the previous week.

Onto Next Week: Carole King’s compilation A Beautiful Collection looks to sell upwards of 50,000 copies in its first week of retrospective release.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.14 – Greatest Hits / Re-entering L.dK at No.14 this week is Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 compilation set, moving 14,000 copies. The collection peaked at No.1 in Apirl 2019, and has now sold more than 600,000 copies – it is the fourth release from Fleetwood Mac to be certified 2 x Platinum, following Rumours (5 x Platinum) and Tango in the Night & Mirage which are both 2 x Platinum certified.

No.26 – She’s so Unusual / Cyndi Lauper’s debut album (1984) drops 23-26 this week, with 9,000 sold bringing its total sales figure to an impressive 1.5 million units. Unusual topped the chart for six weeks in the Summer of 2019 and has spent more than a year on the list; it is also the 9th bestselling album of all time.

No.49 – Bad Animals / HEART’S 1987 record Bad Animals topped out at No.6 in August 2018, earning the Wilson sisters their first Top Ten hit (they would score their first No.1 earlier this year with 1985’s self-titled set). It has been certified Platinum, and as of this week as spent a full year on L.dK, dropping 46-49 this time with 3,000 copies sold.

N/A – Stand Back / While it fails to earn a place on L.dK this week, Stevie Nicks’ 2019 anthology collection sold 3,000 units this week. Overall the compilation has shifted 601,000 units since it was released last May, during which time it reached No.2. Stand Back is Nicks’ third compilation record to be certified Multi-Platinum following 2007’s Crystal Visions (4 x Platinum) and 1991’s Timespace (2 x Platinum), and including studio albums it is her seventh effort to sell over 600,000 copies.

The Top 50:

#. [+/-/=] Album – Artist (WoC)

1. [=/3] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (3)
2. [=/8] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (10)
3. [=] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (12)
4. [=/4] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (6)
5. [NEW] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (1)
6. [-1] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (5)
7. [=] After Hours – The Weeknd (13)
8. [=] Fetch the Bolt Cutter – Fiona Apple (9)
9. [=] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (42)
10. [-4] Cher – Cher (2)
11. [=] Heart – HEART (16)
12. [=] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (27)
13. [+1] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (21)
14. [re] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (30)
15. [-5] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (6)
16. [+1] Fine Line – Harry Styles (27)
17. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (46)
18. [-3] Rare – Selena Gomez (23)
19. [-6] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (13)
20. [-1] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (50)
21. [-1] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (67)
22. [-1] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (28)
23. [-5] 25 – Adele (78)
24. [+1] Diva – Annie Lennox (72)
25. [-3] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (43)
26. [-3] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (54)
27. [-3] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (66)
28. [-2] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (24)
29. [-2] 21 – Adele (33)
30. [-2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (74)
31. [-2] Lover – Taylor Swift (43)
32. [-2] Birdy – Birdy (18)
33. [+6] Heartbreak Weather – Naill Horan (14)
34. [-1] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (92)
35. [+6] 19 – Adele (25)
36. [-2] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (56)
37. [-2] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (17)
38. [-7] Dancing Queen – Cher (65)
39. [+5] Melodrama – Lorde (37)
40. [-2] GIRL – Maren Morris (14)
41. [-1] Bloom – Troye Sivan (39)
42. [=] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (40)
43. [-7] Heart of Stone – Cher (36)
44. [-7] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa (21)
45. [=] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (85)
46. [-14] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (6)
47. [re] Love + Fear – MARINA (39)
48. [re] Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande (11)
49. [-3] Bad Animals – HEART (52)
50. [re] Jade Bird – Jade Bird (4)