LANA DEL REY HOLDS AT NO.1 FOR SECOND WEEK WITH CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUB!
As Del Rey rules, Zara Larsson’s Poster Girl goes Gold!
Lana Del Rey adds a second consecutive week at No.1 on Top Contemporary Albums with Chemtrails Over the Country Club. The album sold 112,000 copies this week, marking a 30 percent decline from the previous week when it sold 160,000 units.
Del Rey has now spent a total of thirty weeks at number-one across all L.dK Charts, including two weeks on Top Contemporary, and twenty-eight weeks in command of the discontinued Weekly Top 50.
In addition to Chemtrails: the singer previously ruled with Lust for Life (eleven weeks – 2017-2018) and Norman Fucking Rockwell! (seventeen weeks – 2019-2020).
Taylor Swift’s folklore repeats at No.2 with 52,000 sold (down 9 percent) as her follow-up evermore keeps at No.3 with 45,000 sold (down 10 percent). The sister albums previously logged sixteen and thirteen weeks respectively atop L.dK Weekly.
Hayley Williams’s No.2-peaking FLOWERS for VASES / descansos bullets at No.4, selling 36,000 copies (up 2 percent); The Weeknd’s The Highlights rises 6-5 on sales of 33,000 copies (up 3 percent) after peaking at No.3.
Beyond the Top Five: Dua Lipa’s eight-week number-one Future Nostalgia drops 5-6 (26,000 units – down 24 percent); Celeste’s No.3-hit Not Your Muse rebounds 8-7 (24,000 units – down 4 percent); Miley Cyrus’s former two-week number-one Plastic Hearts sinks 7-8 (23,000 units – down 18 percent).
Holding at No.9, Zara Larsson’s Poster Girl goes Gold (denoting sales of over 100,000 copies) with 18,000 sold this week (down 10 percent). The album peaked at No.3 three weeks ago.
Finally, Hayley Williams appears again at No.10 with her No.3-peaking Petals for Armor shifting 17,000 copies (up 13 percent).
Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club looks set to nab a third week at No.1, possibly with upwards of 100,000 sold.
Top Contemporary Albums
Certifications: Silver (60,000) Gold (100,000) Platinum (300,000) Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.) Diamond (3,000,000).
LANA DEL REY CONTINUES TO DOMINATE TOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS!
Joni Mitchell’s Blue stays at No.1 for fifth week; Annie Lennox doubles up in Top Ten!
Lana Del Rey ranks highest at No.2 with 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! on sales of 36,000 copies (up 5 percent) as the album adds a record-padding forty-sixth week in the Top Five, and record-extending seventy-sixth week in the Top Ten.
Her 2015 hit Honeymoon reaches a new highest-rank as it improves 5-4 on sales of 19,000 copies (up 18 percent).
2017’s Lust for Life returns to the Top Five (6-5) for the first time since September 2019 selling 18,000 units (up 12 percent).
Beyond the Top Five: the No.2 hit Born to Die: Paradise Edition retreats 4-7 (15,000 units – down 7 percent); and Ultraviolence inches 10-9 (14,000 – up 27 percent) after hitting No.8.
With five albums inside the Top Ten this week, Lana Del Rey becomes the first artist in history to populate fifty percent of the upper bracket for multiple weeks!
Joni Mitchell tallies a fifth consecutive week at number-one on Top Catalogue Albums with her 1971 magnum-opus Blue. The album sold 51,000 copies this week (up 15 percent) and has now sold 282,000 since its release.
As of this week, Blue is the bestselling album of 2021 on the Catalogue format, passing Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection.
Annie Lennox collects her third Top Five hit on L.dK Weekly as 2003’s Bare opens at No.3 selling 21,000 copies in its first seven days.
Lennox has notched two No.1 hits on L.dK Weekly, with Diva and Medusa topping the Weekly Top Fifty for one and three weeks respectively. Those albums have been certified 7 x Platinum and 6 x Platinum, to date.
Diva springs 12-10 this week on sales of 13,000 copies (up 30 percent).
Two former number-one hits follow outside the Top Five: Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks rebounds 7-6 (16,000 units – even with last week); Florence + the Machine bullet at No.8 with High as Hope (14,000 units – up 7 percent).
Onto Next Week: Joni Mitchell’s Blue could earn a sixth week at No.1, and sell over 40,000 copies.
Top Catalogue Albums
Industry Sales
Contemporary Albums recorded sales of 492,000 units this week (down 14%) while Catalogue Albums generated sales of 369,000 units (up 7.2%). Contemporary accounted for 57.1% of all consumption this week; versus 42.9% for Catalogue.
Total industry sales stand at 861,000 units this week, representing a 6.1% drop from last week. Compared to the same week last year (when 1.028 million albums were sold), consumption is down by 16.3%.
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