16.11.2020 – L.dK Weekly

ARIANA GRANDE POSITIONS HERSELF AT NO.1 FOR A SECOND WEEK!

Behind Grande’s Positions, Kylie Minogue’s Disco dances its way to a No.2 debut.

For a second consecutive week, Ariana Grande leads the L.dK Weekly Top 50 with her newest effort Positions. It registers a 38 percent drop in sales, moving 97,000 copies in its second week. The album has sold 253,000 since its release.

Grande also holds at No.7 on this week’s chart with Sweetener – it moves 22,000 copies (down 9 percent) as it notches a 31st week in the Top Ten.

Kylie Minogue makes her first appearance on L.dK Weekly as Disco shines at No.2. It opens with sales of 58,000 copies.

Rounding out the Top Five: Taylor Swift’s folklore slips 2-3 in its sixteenth week after commanding the Top 50 for fourteen straight weeks (50,000 – down 6 percent); Joji’s No.2 peaking Nectar falls one rung to No.4 (38,000 – down 16 percent); and Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection – another No.2 smash – likewise slips one spot to No.5 (30,000 – on par).

Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits reverses course 5-6 selling 29,000 copies (down 4 percent) while front-woman Stevie Nicks dips 6-8 with Live in Concert: the 24 Karat Gold Tour (22,000 – down 16 percent).

Finally, two of 2020’s biggest albums re-enter the Top Ten: Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! bounces 12-9 (20,000 – down 5 percent) adding a record-padding 61st week inside the Top Ten; and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia inches 11-10 (19,000 – down 14 percent).

Industry Sales: Music sales totalled 771,000 units across all albums sold – a drop of 10% compared to last week’s haul of 857,000. However, it still sports a 15.5% percent lead over the same week last year when 667,000 albums were sold.

Onto Next Week: Paloma Faith could be looking to score her second Top Ten hit with Infinite Things. It is currently tracking to sell roughly 20,000 – 25,000 copies in its debut frame. In the battle for the No.1 spot, Ariana Grande should easily claim the title for a third week, potentially with relatively even sales of 90,000 – 100,000 copies.

Notable Moves in the Top 50

No.11 – Fine Line / Harry Styles’ sophomore set has proved to be one of the most enduring albums of 2020, after debuting at No.1 in December 2019, it has yet to depart the Top 50, and revisited the Top Ten as recently as two weeks ago. This week (as it pushes 14-11 with 18,000 sold) it surpasses 1 million copies sold, becoming just the second album to do so by a solo male artist! It has sold 1,005,000 units to date, through its 48 weeks on the chart.

No.12 – Rumours / Fleetwood Mac’s magnum-opus drops 10-12 (16,000) as it logs a 100th week on the chart. It is the first album by a duo or group to achieve this, and the second overall. Rumours has sold 1,824,000 units to date.

No.19 – Timespace / Stevie Nicks extends her record the most million-selling albums this week as her 1991 compilation Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks crosses the threshold: it is up 21-19 moving 13,000 copies. It joins Bella Donna (1,389,000); Crystal Visions (1,283,000); The Wild Heart (1,050,000) & The Other Side of the Mirror (1,034,000).

No.30 – A Star is Born / The Greatest Album of All Time lifts 31-30 shifting 8,000 units in its 88th week on the chart. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s soundtrack has now sold 3,301,000 to date, and is the second album in history to be certified 11 x Platinum or higher! The other? Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! has also been certified 11 x Platinum and has sold 3,457,000 to date.

No.40 – Piano Sketches / Birdy enters the Top 50 at No.40 with her new 4-track EP, selling 5,000 copies in its first week. It is Birdy’s third chart entry, following Beautiful Lies (No.2) and her self-titled debut (No.4).

No.48 – The Red Shoes / Kate Bush’s 1993 release The Red Shoes is easily her biggest studio album released to date (it peaked at No.2 in January 2018 and is certified 2 x Platinum). And this week it becomes her first such album to live for a whole year on the L.dK Top 50! With 52 weeks spent on the listing so far, it joins her compilation set The Whole Story as her second release overall to spend more than a year on the chart. Story sits at No.14 in its 71st appearance currently. Bush looks set to soon add another, as down at No.49 on the Top 50, The Sensual World clocks a 51st turn on the ranking.

Top 50

1. [=/2] Positions – Ariana Grande (2)
2. [NEW] Disco – Kylie Minogue (1)
3. [-1] folklore – Taylor Swift (16)
4. [-1] Nectar – Joji (7)
5. [-1] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (21)
6. [-1] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (51)
7. [=] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (95)
8. [-2] Live in Concert: the 24 Karat Gold Tour – Stevie Nicks (2)
9. [+3] Norman Fucking Rockwell! – Lana Del Rey (63)
10. [+1] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (33)
11. [+3] Fine Line – Harry Styles (48)
12. [-2] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (100)
13. [+16] What’s Your Pleasure? – Jessie Ware (20)
14. [+2] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (71)
15. [=] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (31)
16. [-8] thank u, next – Ariana Grande (42)
17. [+1] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (24)
18. [-8] Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass – Lana Del Rey (16)
19. [+2] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (49)
20. [=] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (30)
21. [+11] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (113)
22. [+2] Such Pretty Forks in the Road – Alanis Morissette (15)
23. [+10] After Hours – The Weeknd (34)
24. [-5] In a Dream – Troye Sivan (12)
25. [=] Diva – Annie Lennox (93)
26. [-4] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (22)
27. [+1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (75)
28. [-11] Album No.8 – Katie Melua (4)
29. [+7] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (27)
30. [+1] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (88)
31. [-5] Medusa – Annie Lennox (67)
32. [-5] Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande (14)
33. [+8] Shake the Spirit – Elle King (47)
34. [-11] Manic – Halsey (16)
35. [-22] Love Goes – Sam Smith (2)
36. [-6] 25 – Adele (99)
37. [+2] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (87)
38. [-1] Love + Fear – MARINA (57)
39. [+1] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (77)
40. [NEW] Piano Sketches – Birdy (1)
41. [+4] Dancing Queen – Cher (85)
42. [-7] Tango in the Night – Fleetwood Mac (58)
43. [re] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (47)
44. [=] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (38)
45. [re] True Colors – Cyndi Lauper (19)
46. [re] In Isolation – Elle King (16)
47. [re] Heart – HEART (35)
48. [-2] The Red Shoes – Kate Bush (52)
49. [-2] The Sensual World – Kate Bush (51)
50. [re] Cuz I Love You – Lizzo (16)

Certifications: Silver (60,000 units), Gold (100,000), Platinum (300,000), Diamond (3,000,000)