29.06.2020 – L.dK Weekly

LADY GAGA’S CHROMATICA STAYS AT NO.1 FOR A FOURTH WEEK!

PLUS: Carole King debuts at No.2 with A Beautiful Collection!

Lady Gaga’s Chromatica commands L.dK Weekly for a fourth successive week, declining by 22 percent and selling 128,000 copies.

Chromatica is the second album of 2020 to spend at least a month at the top spot – it follows Dua Lipa’s eight-week hit Future Nostalgia.

The smash has sold 969,000 copies to date. The hit is Gaga’s second album to be certified 3 x Platinum (900,000), joining the Diamond-Certified A Star is Born soundtrack (3.11 million).

Smashing onto L.dK at No.2 in Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection – it opens with sales of 89,000, wildly outperforming expectations which pegged the compilation to start with around 50,000 units.

Alanis Morissette’s slides 2-3 after a record-breaking eight (aggregate) weeks in the runner-up position, moving 63,000 copies (down 7 percent). Morissette’s best-of set has now become the 22nd album to sell over 1 million copies! It ranks as the 20th bestselling album of all time with 1.029 million units sold.

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia sinks 3-4 with 56,000 copies sold (down 13 percent) and becomes just the tenth album ever to be certified 5 x Platinum – denoting sales of 1.5 million units!

Rounding out the Top Five: After a total of four weeks at its No.4 peak, Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor backtracks to No.5 selling 56,000 copies this week (up 7 percent). As a consolation prize for dipping from its peak, the LP crosses 300,000 in total sales – it is now certified Platinum!

Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour steps down 5-6 in its second week (36,000 – down 23 percent) going Silver in the process (60,000 units), while The Weeknd holds steady with his former No.1 hit After Hours at No.7 (29,000 – down 6 percent). Also holding at No.8, and going Platinum this week, is Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters with 26,000 sold (down 13 percent) – Apple’s record reached No.4 in April.

Lana Del Rey’s record-breaking Norman Fucking Rockwell repeats at No.9 (24,000 – on par) as it becomes the 3rd longest-running Top Ten album ever, breaking out a tie with Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born.

1. Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks – 46 weeks
2. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 45 weeks
3. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 43 weeks
4. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 42 weeks
5. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks

Capping the Top Ten: Carly Rae Jepsen tumbles 6-10 with the No.1 record Dedicated Side B moving 21,000 copies (down 38 percent).

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.15 – Cher / The icon’s self-titled 1987 release slides from No.10 to No.15 selling 12,000 copies, leaving the Top Ten after just two weeks, during which time it peaked at No.6. The album has been certified Silver with 71,000 sold.

No.16 – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful / Florence + the Machine are down 13-16 with How Big, their most successful album to date, selling 12,000 units this week. With total sales of 604,000 copies, it is the first LP from the band to be certified 2 x Platinum! Their 2011 hit Ceremonials acquired a Platinum plaque in 2017 and has since sold more than 400,000 copies.

No.20 – Kid Krow / Conan Gray’s debut full-length studio album flew to a No.2 peak in March, and dips 19-20 in its 14th frame on the chart (10,000 units). Gray’s hit is now Platinum-certified with total sales of 306,000 units.

Industry: A total of 844,000 albums were sold this week, down 6.1% from the previous week

Onto Next Week: Jessie Ware’s new studio album What’s Your Pleasure? is looking to register the largest sales week for the singer, possibly resulting a No.1 debut as the album looks set to sell upwards of 100,000 copies. If Pleasure debuts at the top spot then it will earn Ware her first No.1, and her third Top Five record (fourth Top Ten). Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors (1986) will also receive a retrospective release, and could become the star’s second Top Five album – it should start with over 50,000 sales.

The Top 50

#. [+/=/-] Album – Artist (WoC)

1. [=/4] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (4)
2. [NEW] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (1)
3. [-1] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (11)
4. [-1] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (13)
5. [-1] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (7)
6. [-1] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (2)
7. [=] After Hours – The Weeknd (14)
8. [=] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (10)
9. [=] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (43)
10. [-4] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (6)
11. [=] Heart – HEART (17)
12. [=] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (28)
13. [+3] Fine Line – Harry Styles (28)
14. [+7] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (68)
15. [-5] Cher – Cher (3)
16. [-3] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (22)
17. [+3] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (51)
18. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (47)
19. [+8] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (67)
20. [-1] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (14)
21. [-3] Rare – Selena Gomez (24)
22. [=] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (29)
23. [+1] Diva – Annie Lennox (73)
24. [+1] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (44)
25. [+1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (55)
26. [-3] 25 – Adele (79)
27. [+1] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (25)
28. [+2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (75)
29. [-15] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (31)
30. [+1] Lover – Taylor Swift (44)
31. [-2] 21 – Adele (34)
32. [+3] 19 – Adele (26)
33. [+3] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (57)
34. [-2] Birdy – Birdy (19)
35. [+2] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (18)
36. [+2] Dancing Queen – Cher (66)
37. [-22] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (7)
38. [+1] Melodrama – Lorde (38)
39. [-5] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (93)
40. [+1] Bloom – Troye Sivan (40)
41. [+1] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (41)
42. [+1] Heart of Stone – Cher (37)
43. [+1] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa (22)
44. [+1] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (86)
45. [+1] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (7)
46. [+3] Bad Animals – HEART (53)
47. [+3] Jade Bird – Jade Bird (5)
48. [re] Devotion – Jessie Ware (26)
49. [re] Never for Ever – Kate Bush (18)
50. [-10] GIRL – Maren Morris (15)