02.11.2020 – L.dK Weekly

TAYLOR SWIFT TALLIES RECORD-TYING FOURTEENTH WEEK AT NO.1 WITH FOLKLORE!

Further down the Top Ten, Harry Styles & Dua Lipa return to the region!

Taylor Swift leads the L.dK Weekly Top 50 for a fourteenth consecutive week, tying the record for the longest consecutive reign in chart history! folklore earned 62,000 units (on par) in the past seven days, and has sold 1.62 million copies to date.

By spending a fourteenth successive week at No.1, folklore matches Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! which also ruled for its fourteen weeks in September-December 2019. Overall, folklore is the second longest-running number one album ever, behind only NFR! which has ruled for a total of seventeen weeks.

Rebounding 3-2 this week is Joji’s Nectar which moved 41,000 copies (even with last week), and nabs a fourth aggregate week at its No.2 highpoint. Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection reverses 4-3 with 35,000 sold (up 6 percent) after peaking in the runner-up spot for nine weeks, while adding a 19th week in the Top Five, tying Stevie Nicks’ Crystal Visions for the fifth longest stay in the region!

Katie Melua’s Album No.8 drops 2-4 in its second week shifting 32,000 units (down 44 percent).

Capping the Top Five: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours paces at No.5 selling 31,000 copies (down 4 percent), spending a 28th week in the Top Five – it ties Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life for the third longest stay in the bracket. Rumours ruled the Top 50 for five weeks in 2017. The Mac are also up 7-6 with Greatest Hits moving 28,000 units (up 7 percent), a compilation set that spent a week at the top spot in April 2019.

Returning to L.dK’s Top 10 for a seventeenth week is Harry Styles’ former No.1 record Fine Line: roaring 11-7 on sales of 22,000 units (up 22 percent). It forces Lana Del Rey’s Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass down two rungs to No.8 with 22,000 sold (down 22 percent) after it reached No.3, and pushes Del Rey’s NFR! down to No.10 (from No.8) with 21,000 sold (down 16 percent). The seventeen-week leader tallies a record-extending 60th week inside the Top Ten!

Sandwiched in between Del Rey’s two records is Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia. The record – which commanded the Top 50 for eight weeks earlier this year – springs 12-9 selling 21,000 (up 23 percent). It has now spent 26 weeks in the Top Ten.

Industry Sales: Overall music sales lifted by 3.9% to 651,000 units in the most recent tracking week. Its the biggest week in music since album sales totalled 699,000 for the chart dated 5th October 2020, four weeks ago. It also represents a rise of 2% compared to the same week last year, when 638,000 records were sold.

Onto Next Week: The Top Ten is set for a big shake-up in the upcoming week with three records set to impact, two coming from some of L.dK’s biggest artists historically. Ariana Grande’s new effort Positions will be eyeing a No.1 debut with upwards of 100,000 units, following in the footsteps of her two previous studio albums which both reached No.1. Sam Smith and Stevie Nicks will likely both be vying for a Top Five debut, with Smith’s Love Goes aiming for around 50,000 units, and Nicks’ Live in Concert: the 24 Karat Gold Tour is gunning for an opening of around 40,000 copies. Smith will be looking for his second Top Five album after 2017’s No.1 hit The Thrill of it All, while Nicks could claim her record-padding twelfth Top Five hit!

Notable Moves in the Top 50

No.12 – Manic / Halsey’s third studio album returns to the Top 50 at No.12 earning 16,000 units after being re-released with new previously released singles. The album debuted in the pole position in January with the year’s biggest sales week at the time (114,000) and this week nabs its fourteenth turn on the ranking.

No.21 – 21 / Following Adele’s hosting gig on the most recent instalment of SNL, Adele’s 2011 hit 21 returns (appropriately) at No.21. It sold 10,000 copies in the tracking week, and marks its 47th appearance on the weekly run down. 21 peaked at No.4 in 2018 and has been certified Platinum for sales of over 300,000 copies. In-fact, all three of Adele’s albums registered gains on this week’s chart: the 4 x Platinum juggernaut 25 moves 27-25 with 9,000 sold (in its 97th charting week), and her debut album 19 re-enters at No.35 selling 5,000 copies, and earning a 31st week on the chart.

No.23 – Sweetener / With a new full length from Ariana Grande right around the corner, her previous full-length records dot the list in anticipation. Ranking highest is her three-week leader Sweetener – a chart mainstay which hops 28-23 (10,000 sold) in its 93rd appearance on the chart. Sweetener is by far Grande’s biggest hit on L.dK Weekly, having spent three weeks at the top, and sold over 1.71 million copies to date. Returning at No.31 is Grande’s longest-running No.1 hit and 3 x Platinum certified thank u, next (4 weeks at the top) on sales of 6,000 copies in its 40th turn on the list. Further down the chart: her Silver-certified Dangerous Woman returns at No.39 with 4,000 units (12th week on the chart) and her sophomore album My Everything is back at No.48 selling 2,000 copies (2nd week). All records in question are expected to climb on next week’s chart alongside Grande’s new record being released!

Top 50

1. [=/14] folklore – Taylor Swift (14)
2. [+1] Nectar – Joji (5)
3. [+1] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (19)
4. [-2] Album No.8 – Katie Melua (2)
5. [=] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (98)
6. [+1] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (49)
7. [+4] Fine Line – Harry Styles (46)
8. [-2] Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass – Lana Del Rey (14)
9. [+3] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (31)
10. [-2] Norman Fucking Rockwell! – Lana Del Rey (61)
11. [-2] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (69)
12. [re] Manic – Halsey (14)
13. [=] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (47)
14. [-4] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (29)
15. [=] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (22)
16. [+4] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (20)
17. [=] In a Dream – Troye Sivan (10)
18. [-2] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (27)
19. [+3] What’s Your Pleasure? – Jessie Ware (18)
20. [-2] Such Pretty Forks in the Road – Alanis Morissette (13)
21. [re] 21 – Adele (47)
22. [=] Diva – Annie Lennox (91)
23. [+5] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (93)
24. [-3] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (73)
25. [+2] 25 – Adele (97)
26. [+4] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (86)
27. [=] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (111)
28. [-9] Medusa – Annie Lennox (65)
29. [-4] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (25)
30. [-4] After Hours – The Weeknd (32)
31. [re] thank u, next – Ariana Grande (40)
32. [=] Shake the Spirit – Elle King (45)
33. [-4] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (85)
34. [+2] Love + Fear – MARINA (55)
35. [re] 19 – Adele (31)
36. [-5] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (75)
37. [-2] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (25)
38. [=] Bloom – Troye Sivan (58)
39. [re] Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande (12)
40. [-3] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (46)
41. [+2] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (35)
42. [-3] Dancing Queen – Cher (83)
43. [-9] Tango in the Night – Fleetwood Mac (56)
44. [re] The Red Shoes – Kate Bush (50)
45. [+5] The Sensual World – Kate Bush (49)
46. [-5] Madame X – Madonna (52)
47. [re] Crystal Visions – Stevie Nicks (41)
48. [re] My Everything – Ariana Grande (2)
49. [-9] True Colors – Cyndi Lauper (18)
50. [-2] Bad Animals – HEART (69)