06.07.2020 – L.dK Weekly

JESSIE WARE COLLECTS HER FIRST NO.1 WITH WHAT’S YOUR PLEASURE?

As Pleasure starts at No.1, Cyndi Lauper & HAIM bow in the Top Five & Top Ten respectively!

Jessie Ware finally nabs her first No.1 album on L.dK Weekly – a feat that had alluded Ware until now, despite garnering three prior Top Ten hits!

What’s Your Pleasure? is the 53rd album to reach No.1 on L.dK and the 12th to top the list in 2020. It opens with sales of 114,000 copies, including 101,000 first-week sales and 13,000 pre-sales derived from singles.

First No.1: As previously mentioned, Pleasure is the first record from Ware to climb to No.1 on L.dK, but it follows three previous Top Ten records (Glasshouse and Tough Love, which both reached No.4, and the No.10 hit Devotion), and is the singer’s third to hit the Top Five!

Ware’s three studio albums all appear further down the Top 50 this week, with Glasshouse (2017) leading the way. It springs 19-12 with 25,000 copies sold, going 4 x Platinum (1.2 million) in the process.

Meanwhile, rising 48-26 with 9,000 units is the Gold-certified Devotion (2011). It just outpaces 2014’s Tough Love which re-enters at No.29 with 8,000 sold – the album has been certified Platinum and sold over 400,000.

Back in the Top Ten: Lady Gaga’s Chromatica slips to No.2 after a four-week command, dropping by 15 percent to 108,000 sold. While it cedes control of the chart, it surpasses 1,000,000 copies sold! It is the fourth album to sell at least 1 million units in 2020 following Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (1.56 million), Alanis Morissette’s The Collection (1.08 million) & Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell (1.03 million).

Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection slips 2-3 in its second week with 83,000 copies (down just 6 percent), going Gold with over 100,000 sold.

Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor rebounds 5-4, returning for a fifth overall week at its peak position. The album swelled by 14 percent this week, reaching a new sales high of 64,000 copies.

Cyndi Lauper pays her second visit to the Top Five as her sophomore record True Colors (1986) premieres at No.5, selling 61,000 units in its first seven days. Colors follows Lauper’s 1983 debut She’s so Unusual which started at No.1 in June 2019 with 82,000 copies, going on to spend a total of six weeks at the top spot, and selling in excess of 1.5 million copies! This week, Unusual surges 25-14 moving 20,000 copies.

Two of 2020’s biggest albums follow in the Top Ten: Alanis Morissette’s No.2 peaking smash The Collection tumbles 3-6 with 58,000 sold (down 10 percent), while Dua Lipa’s eight-week No.1 Future Nostalgia falls 4-7 moving 47,000 copies (down 16 percent).

HAIM are new at No.8 with their newly released album Women in Music Pt. III. It’s the country duo’s first visit to L.dK Weekly.

Rounding out the Top Ten: Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour goes Gold as it slides 6-9 with 33,000 (down 8 percent), and Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters attains Platinum status as it falls 8-10 (26,000 – on par).

Industry: Total sales received a 19.7% boost to 1,011,000 units overall in the most recent tracking week. Year-to-date sales have now surpassed 20 million albums!

Onto Next Week: There are no albums scheduled for release this week. Lady Gaga & Jessie Ware will likely for compete for the No.1 spot, with both Chromatica & What’s Your Pleasure? forecast to sell upwards of 90,000 copies.

Important Moves in the Top 50!

No.13 – Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey’s record-breaking fifth full-length studio album broke multiple record on L.dK, including becoming the longest-running No.1 album of all time with 17 weeks at the top spot, and ranking as the bestselling album in any calendar year with 1.886 million sold in 2019. Well, this week it drops from No.9 to No.13 selling 24,000 units, departing the Top Ten after a hefty 43 straight weeks in the region. Not just an impressive figure, it marks the longest consecutive stay in the region, and the third overall behind Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (44) and Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna (46).

No.16 – Heart / HEART’s only No.1 album drops 11-16 with 16,000 sold, after spending fourteen weeks in the Top Ten earlier this year. The 1985 hit is now certified 2 x Platinum for over 600,000 copies sold.

No.19 – The Whole Story / Kate Bush’s compilation The Whole Story (1986) backtracks 17-19 with 12,000 copies sold. In the same instance, Story becomes Bush’s second album to be certified 2 x Platinum following 1993’s The Red Shoes, and becomes her first to spend a whole year on L.dK!

The Top 50

1. [NEW] What’s Your Pleasure? – Jessie Ware (1)
2. [-1] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (5)
3. [-1] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (2)
4. [+1/5] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (8)
5. [NEW] True Colors – Cyndi Lauper (1)
6. [-3] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (12)
7. [-3] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (14)
8. [NEW] Women in Music Pt. III – HAIM (1)
9. [-3] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (3)
10. [-2] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (10)
11. [-4] After Hours – The Weeknd (15)
12. [+7] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (68)
13. [-4] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (44)
14. [+11] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (56)
15. [-2] Fine Line – Harry Styles (29)
16. [-5] Heart – HEART (18)
17. [-7] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (7)
18. [-6] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (29)
19. [-2] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (52)
20. [-6] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (69)
21. [-5] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (23)
22. [-4] Medusa – Annie Lennox (48)
23. [-3] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (15)
24. [-1] Diva – Annie Lennox (74)
25. [-10] Cher – Cher (4)
26. [+22] Devotion – Jessie Ware (27)
27. [-5] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (30)
28. [+1] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (32)
29. [re] Tough Love – Jessie Ware (35)
30. [-2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (76)
31. [-4] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (26)
32. [-11] Rare – Selena Gomez (25)
33. [-3] Lover – Taylor Swift (45)
34. [-8] 25 – Adele (80)
35. [-11] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (45)
36. [-5] 21 – Adele (35)
37. [-4] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (58)
38. [-3] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (19)
39. [-2] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (8)
40. [-2] Melodrama – Lorde (39)
41. [-2] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (94)
42. [-2] Bloom – Troye Sivan (41)
43. [-11] 19 – Adele (27)
44. [-10] Birdy – Birdy (20)
45. [-9] Dancing Queen – Cher (67)
46. [-1] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (8)
47. [-6] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (42)
48. [-6] Heart of Stone – Cher (38)
49. [-5] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (87)
50. [-4] Bad Animals – HEART (54)