20.07.2020 – L.dK Weekly

LADY GAGA LOGS SIXTH WEEK AT THE TOP AS CHROMATICA GOES 4 X PLATINUM!

Plus: Carole King & Alanis Morissette reach new sales milestones!

With sales of 99,000 copies, Lady Gaga’s Chromatica retains control of the L.dK Top 50 for a sixth cumulative week. This means Chromatica is now tied with Cyndi Lauper’s She’s so Unusual as the 6th longest-running number-one album in L.dK history. The list of longest-running number-one records is as follows:

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
6. She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper – 6 weeks
7. Chromatica / Lady Gaga – 6 weeks
8. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 5 weeks
9. Melodrama / Lorde – 5 weeks
10. The Other Side of the Mirror / Stevie Nicks – 5 weeks

Gaga’s newest smash has now sold 1.28 million copies since its release, and is her second album to reach 4 x Platinum (1.2 million) status, following 2018’s Diamond-certified A Star is Born: that soundtrack climbs 19-18 this week selling 13,000 units – it has shifted 3.15 million overall.

Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection rises one spot to No.2, returning to its current chart peak. The best-of set, which spent the past two weeks sat at No.3, celebrates surpassing 300,000 in lifetimes sales. It marks the first release from King to be certified Platinum! This week, Beautiful sold 82,000 copies (on par).

After seemingly peaking at No.4 (for seven non-consecutive weeks!) Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor advances one rung to No.3, celebrating both a new best rank and a new sales peak, gaining by 1 percent to 68,000 sold. Petals has moved a hefty 500,000 copies to date.

Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure? slides 2-4 in its third week, after debuting at No.1 two weeks ago, moving 60,000 units (down 30 percent).

Bouncing from No.6 to No.5: Alanis Morissette’s The Collection re-enters the Top Five after peaking at No.2 for a record eight weeks earlier this year. With sales of 59,000 this week (up 7 percent), Collection goes 4 x Platinum alongside Lady Gaga’s aforementioned Chromatica.

Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors dips 5-6 in its third week (46,000 – down 19 percent).

The following three albums all hold their positions from last week: Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia at No.7 (35,000 – down 10 percent), Chloe x Halle’s No.5 peaking Ungodly Hour at No.8 (33,000 – down 2 percent), and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! at No.9 (28,000 – up 12 percent).

Rockwell! draws even with Fleetwood Mac’s legendary set Rumours, logging a 45th week inside the Top Ten! It marks the longest stint in the Top Ten, save for the all-time record-holder: Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna on 46 weeks.

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

Finally, Fiona Apple’s No.4 peaking Fetch the Bolt Cutters edges 11-10 (23,000 – on par) for a 12th week inside the Top Ten.

Industry: This week, music sales slipped by 5.4% to 879,000 sold overall.

Onto Next Week: Ellie Goulding’s fourth studio album Brightest Blue could generate between 125,000 and 150,000 units in first week sales, which will surely guarantee it a No.1 debut!

Important Moves in the Top 50!

No.13 – In Isolation / Elle King earns her third consecutive Top Twenty hit on the L.dK Top 50 as her 3-track EP In Isolation opens at No.13 boasting 19,000 copies in first week sales. While it falls far short of her previous studio efforts (2015’s Love Stuff hit No.1 in 2015, and 2018 saw King reach No.2 with the Multi-Platinum Shake the Spirit) it’s short tracklist mostly explains away the large drop in first week sales. Both of King’s prior albums rank on L.dK in conjunction with the EP’s release, Shake the Spirit moves back into the Top 20, hurtling 50-20 with 11,000 sold, while Love Stuff returns at No.35 with 6,000 sales.

No.23 – Women in Music Pt. III / After scoring HAIM their first Top Ten hit two weeks ago, their third studio album goes Silver (60,000) as it falls 15-23 on sales of 10,000 this week.

The Top 50

1. [=/6] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (7)
2. [+1/2] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (4)
3. [+1] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (10)
4. [-2] What’s Your Pleasure? – Jessie Ware (3)
5. [+1] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (14)
6. [-1] True Colors – Cyndi Lauper (3)
7. [=] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (16)
8. [+1] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (5)
9. [=] Norman Fucking Rockwell! – Lana Del Rey (46)
10. [+1] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (13)
11. [-1] After Hours – The Weeknd (17)
12. [+2] Fine Line – Harry Styles (31)
13. [NEW] In Isolation – Elle King (1)
14. [-1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (58)
15. [-3] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (70)
16. [=] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (9)
17. [=] Heart – HEART (20)
18. [+1] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (71)
19. [-1] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (54)
20. [+30] Shake the Spirit – Elle King (30)
21. [-1] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (31)
22. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (50)
23. [-8] Womenn in Music Pt.III – HAIM (3)
24. [+2] 25 – Adele (82)
25. [-3] Diva – Annie Lennox (76)
26. [+2] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (34)
27. [-2] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (32)
28. [-5] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (25)
29. [-2] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (17)
30. [-6] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (25)
31. [-2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (78)
32. [=] Cher – Cher (6)
33. [-2] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (21)
34. [+2] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (47)
35. [re] Love Stuff – Elle King (22)
36. [-6] Lover – Taylor Swift (47)
37. [-2] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (60)
38. [+5] Dancing Queen – Cher (69)
39. [-6] Devotion – Jessie Ware (29)
40. [-3] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (10)
41. [=] Bloom – Troye Sivan (43)
42. [=] 21 – Adele (37)
43. [-5] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (10)
44. [+1] Melodrama – Lorde (41)
45. [-11] Rare – Selena Gomez (27)
46. [-6] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (96)
47. [-1] 19 – Adele (29)
48. [=] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (44)
49. [=] Heart of Stone – Cher (40)
50. [-6] Bad Animals – HEART (56)