LANA DEL REY EXTENDS RECORD FOR MOST WEEKS AT NO.1!
As Chemtrails Over the Country Club returns to No.1, Birdy doubles up in the Top Ten!
Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club rebounds 2-1 to score a sixth non-consecutive week in charge of the Top Contemporary Albums Chart.
So far, Chemtrails has topped the charts on three different occasions for a total of six weeks in the penthouse. The album debuted at No.1 on the chart dated 29 March where it stayed for a further two weeks; it then returned to pole position on the charted 26 April for two weeks; now it climbs back to No.1 again.
Chemtrails moved 62,000 copies this week (up 5 percent).
Birdy’s Young Heart slides to No.2 after spending its first two weeks at No.1; the record sold 58,000 units this week (down 22 percent).
As a consolation prize for losing the crown, Birdy doubles up inside the Top Ten for the first time in her career as her 2020 EP Piano Sketches finally breaks into the Top Ten for the first time.
The four-track-set peaked at No.25 on the discontinued Weekly Top 50 last year, and then reached No.13 on Top Contemporary Albums over two months ago. This week, it surges from No.13 to a new high of No.10 – selling 12,000 copies (up 50 percent) – in its twenty-eight week on the list.
Three former chart-topping LPs from Taylor Swift complete the Top Five: Fearless (Taylor’s Version) remains at No.3 with 37,000 units (down 10 percent) as it goes Platinum in its sixth week; evermore ticks 5-4 selling 35,000 copies (up 16 percent); folklore retreats 4-5 moving 32,000 copies (down 3 percent).
Taylor Swift’s impressive list of certifications is as follows:
- 11 x Platinum – folklore
- 6 x Platinum – evermore
- 5 x Platinum – Lover
- 2 x Platinum – reputation
- Platinum – Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
- Silver – 1989
Outside the Top Five: Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition is steady at No.6 after eight weeks at No.1 (19,000 units – even with last week); and London Grammar’s No.3-peaking Californian Soil rebounds 9-7 (19,000 units – up 26 percent).
Miley Cyrus’s two-week-leader Plastic Hearts stays put at No.8 (18,000 units – on par with last week) as it becomes her first album to be certified Quadruple Platinum for sales exceeding 1,200,000 units.
Capping the Top Ten: Celeste’s No.3-hit Not Your Muse drops 7-9 (14,000 units – down 22 percent); Birdy’s Piano Sketches follows at No.10.
Onto Next Week: Olivia Rodrigo could challenge for a No.1 bow with her debut SOUR, currently looking to sell upwards of 50,000 copies. P!nk is gunning for a third Top Ten hit with her new live album All I Know So Far, while Zara Larsson could also make a strong return with Poster Girl: Summer Edition.
Notable Moves on Top Contemporary!
No.17 – Be Right Back / British singer Jorja Smith earns her first hit on L.dK Weekly as Be Right Back opens at No.17 with first-week sales of 6,000 copies.
No.25 – Collapsed in Sunbeams / Arlo Parks’s debut record falls to No.25 in its fourth week after hitting No.3, moving 4,000 units this week. The album has now been certified Silver for selling 60,000 copies.
Top Contemporary Albums
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
JONI MITCHELL LEADS CATALOGUE ALBUMS FOR TWELFTH CONSECUTIVE WEEK!
Blue rules; Stevie Nicks’s Street Angel returns at No.4; Alanis Morissette’s The Collection re-enters Top Ten!
Joni Mitchell’s legendary 1971 album Blue commands the Top Catalogue Albums Chart for a twelfth straight week, tying with Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST as the fourth longest-running number-one album of all time.
- Seventeen weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! , Lana Del Rey
- Sixteen weeks – folklore , Taylor Swift
- Thirteen weeks – evermore , Taylor Swift
- Twelve weeks – A Star is Born – OST , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper . Blue , Joni Mitchell
- Eleven weeks – Lust for Life , Lana Del Rey
Blue sold 49,000 units this week (up 16 percent) and has sold more than 660,000 copies since its release.
Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! repeats at No.2 selling 21,000 copies (down 4 percent) as it nabs a record-padding fifty-third week in the Top Five, and eighty-third term inside the Top Ten; Del Rey also dips 7-8 with her No.2-peaking Born to Die: the Paradise Edition on sales of 11,000 copies (even with last week).
Stevie Nicks makes two appearances in the Top Five this week: her 1994 album Street Angel re-enters Top Catalogue Albums at No.4, making its first appearance on L.dK Weekly this year. Street has now spent thirty-seven weeks on the ranking, and reached No.3 for a total of three weeks in 2018.
Nicks’s longest-charting albums are as follows:
- 140 weeks – Bella Donna
- Eighty-nine weeks – Rock a Little
- Eighty-five weeks – The Wild Heart
- Sixty-three weeks – Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks
- Sixty-one weeks – Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks
- Fifty-seven weeks – The Other Side of the Mirror
- Thirty-seven weeks – Street Angel
- Thirty-six weeks – 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
- Twenty-nine weeks – Trouble in Shangri-La
- Twenty-seven weeks – Stand Back
To date, Street has sold just over 760,000 copies, making it Nicks’s eighth bestselling album to date.
- 1,640,000 – Bella Donna
- 1,623,000 – Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks
- 1,152,000 – Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks
- 1,134,000 – The Wild Heart
- 1,101,000 – The Other Side of the Mirror
- 1,092,000 – Rock a Little
- 940,000 – 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
- 764,000 – Street Angel
- 605,000 – Stand Back
- 496,000 – Trouble in Shangri-La
Beneath Street Angel, Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks falls 4-5 on sales of 16,000 units (up 6 percent) after peaking at No.1 for a total of five weeks.
Outside the Top Five: Kate Bush’s The Whole Story backtracks 5-6 (13,000 units – up 8 percent); Annie Lennox steps down 6-7 with her chart-topping Diva (11,000 units – even with last week); Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die: the Paradise Edition dips 7-8 after hitting No.2 (11,000 units – on par with last week).
Alanis Morissette’s The Collection springs 11-9 to log a forty-third week inside the Top Ten, selling 10,000 copies this week (up 11 percent). The album previously peaked at No.2 for a record nine weeks.
Finally, Birdy’s Beautiful Lies dives 8-10 after hitting No.2 (9,000 units – down 10 percent).
Onto Next Week: Joni Mitchell’s Blue could sell another 40,000 units, and may notch a thirteenth consecutive week at the summit. Meanwhile Lady Gaga’s Born this Way could reach the Top Ten following its tenth anniversary.
Notable Moves on Top Catalogue
No.12, No.17 & No.25 – Bella Donna, Rock a Little & The Wild Heart / Stevie Nicks’s first three solo albums chart together on Top Catalogue Albums this week, as the icon also places another two releases inside the Top Ten. Bella climbs 17-12 as it moves 9,000 units (up 28 percent) in its record-extending 140th week on L.dK Weekly; Rock returns at No.17 with 7,000 units (up 40 percent) in its eighty-ninth week; Wild is back at No.25 with 5,000 sold (up 400 percent) in its eighty-fifth frame.
Top Catalogue Albums
Industry Sales
Contemporary Albums recorded sales of 428,000 units this week (down 4.5%) while Catalogue Albums generated sales of 348,000 units (down 4.4%). Contemporary accounted for 55.2% of all consumption this week; versus 44.8% for Catalogue.
This week represents the greatest market share to date for Catalogue, matching the 44.8% slice it took out last week (17 May); thus, it also shows the lowest market share for Contemporary, equal with last week’s performance.
It also marks the lowest sales figure to date in the Contemporary format, passing the week dated 01 February, when 441,000 albums were sold.
Total industry sales stand at 776,000 units, dropping 4.5% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 784,000 albums were sold), consumption is down by 1.1%.
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