17.08.2020 – L.dK Weekly

TAYLOR SWIFT STAYS AT NO.1 FOR A THIRD WEEK WITH FOLKLORE!

Plus: Lana Del Rey reaches the Top Five with Violet.

Taylor Swift continues her command of the L.dK Top 50 as folklore stays on top with further sales of 118,000 units (down 10 percent).

folklore extends its record as Swift’s longest-running No.1 album, logging a third frame at the summit. The album has now sold more than 500,000 copies since its release.

Bouncing from No.4 to No.2 this week is Alanis Morissette’s smash hit The Collection: it logs a record-extending ninth week at the runner-up position, moving 52,000 in the most recent tracking week (down 5 percent). It pushes Carole King’s compilation A Beautiful Collection down a spot to No.3 after peaking at No.2 for four weeks. Morissette also places a second album in this week’s top tier: Such Pretty Forks in the Road slides 2-10 following its debut, declining by 67 percent to 25,000 sold. It has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies.

Lana Del Rey rockets 11-4 with her spoken word album Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass, as it surges by 104 percent to 47,000 copies sold. The spoken word set debuted at No.14 two weeks ago, before then rising to No.11, and this week becomes the first of its kind to enter the Top Five (and Top Ten).

Violet becomes Del Rey’s fifth Top Five album following Born to Die: Paradise Edition (No.2), Lust for Life (No.1 – 11 weeks), The Unreleased Collection (No.3) and Norman Fucking Rockwell! (No.1 – 17 weeks). It’s her seventh to hit the Top Ten overall, joining the aforementioned albums in addition to Ultraviolence (No.8) and Honeymoon (No.6).

Del Rey makes a second appearance in this week’s Top Ten: with Norman Fucking Rockwell! unmoved at No.9 with 26,000 units (down 3 percent).

Lady Gaga’s Chromatica remains at No.5 after six weeks at the pinnacle (37,000 – down 12 percent) as Ellie Goulding’s former one-week No.1 Brightest Blue rebounds 7-6 (33,000 – down 13 percent), swapping places with Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor which peaked at No.3 (30,000 – down 23 percent).

Holding at its No.8 high for a second week is Beyonce’s The Lion King: the Gift (29,000 – down 19 percent), as it goes Silver in its second week (60,000).

Industry Sales: Sliding by 14.9% to 744,000 sold, industry sales have reached their lowest point since the chart dated 23rd March when a total of 673,000 albums were sold across all records, marking the lowest sales figure in almost five months. Despite this, numbers are nearly double last year’s performance in the same week: 374,000 units.

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s folklore looks bound to nab a fourth week at No.1, likely with around 100,000 in sales.

Important Moves in the Top 50

No.40 – Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks’ debut solo album is one of the most successful discs in L.dk chart history: it has been certified 4 x Platinum (1.2 million) and is the 17th bestselling album ever, and until recently was the longest-running Top Ten hit ever with 46 weeks in the region. Bella Donna – which peaked at No.3 in 2017 – has now become the first album to rack up a triple digit tenure on L.dK Weekly, having now spent 100 non-consecutive weeks on the list as it slips 39-40 with 5,000 sold. The set will soon become the first album to spend a total of 2 years (104 weeks) on the tally. In addition, it isn’t Nicks’ only album to live on the list for more than a year, as The Wild Heart (74), Rock a Little (67) and The Other Side of the Mirror (54) have also achieved this!

The Top 50

1. [=/3] folklore – Taylor Swift (3)
2. [+2/9] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (18)
3. [=] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (8)
4. [+7] Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass – Lana Del Rey (3)
5. [=] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (10)
6. [+1] Brightest Blue – Ellie Goulding (4)
7. [-1] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (14)
8. [=/2] The Lion King: The Gift – Beyonce (2)
9. [=] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (50)
10. [-8] Such Pretty Forks in the Road – Alanis Morissette (2)
11. [-1] What’s Your Pleasure? – Jessie Ware (7)
12. [+2] Fine Line – Harry Styles (35)
13. [-1] True Colors – Cyndi Lauper (7)
14. [-1] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (20)
15. [+1] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (16)
16. [+3] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (58)
17. [+6] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (36)
18. [-1] After Hours – The Weeknd (21)
19. [-4] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (9)
20. [+2] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (62)
21. [=] Diva – Annie Lennox (80)
22. [-2] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (75)
23. [-5] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (13)
24. [+6] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (35)
25. [=] Medusa – Annie Lennox (54)
26. [+3] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (82)
27. [=] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (38)
28. [+7] Heart – HEART (24)
29. [-1] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (74)
30. [+7] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (64)
31. [+1] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (29)
32. [+1] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (25)
33. [-7] Shake the Spirit – Elle King (34)
34. [-10] Lover – Taylor Swift (51)
35. [+1] Bloom – Troye Sivan (47)
36. [-5] 25 – Adele (86)
37. [+1] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (14)
38. [+6] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (29)
39. [+11] Manic – Halsey (11)
40. [-1] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (100)
41. [-7] Love Stuff – Elle King (26)
42. [-1] Dancing Queen – Cher (73)
43. [=] In Isolation – Elle King (5)
44. [+1] Love + Fear – MARINA (43)
45. [+2] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (51)
46. [=] 21 – Adele (41)
47. [+1] Cher – Cher (10)
48. [re] Bad Animals – HEART (59)
49. [re] Madame X – Madonna (42)
50. [-1] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (14)