OLIVIA RODRIGO DEBUTS AT NO.1 WITH SOUR!
As Rodrigo launches at No.1, P!nk scores her third Top Ten hit with All I Know So Far: Setlist.
Olivia Rodrigo’s debut studio album SOUR roars onto L.dK Weekly’s Contemporary Chart at No.1, moving 111,000 copies in its first seven days, becoming the sixty-fifth album to reach No.1 on L.dK Weekly.
The LP thus becomes the forty-fourth fastest-selling album of all time, just ahead of Elle King’s Love Stuff (110,000 units). It has already been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies.
Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club retreats to No.2 after a total of six weeks at the top spot, shifting 64,000 copies this week (up 3 percent) as it nabs a tenth successive week inside the Top Ten!
Birdy’s former-number-one hit Young Heart slips 3-4 in its fourth week, moving 51,000 units (down 12 percent).
Two Taylor Swift records round out the Top Five: Fearless (Taylor’s Version) slips 3-4 after spending a single week at the summit earlier this year, selling 36,000 units (down 3 percent).
evermore – which ruled for thirteen weeks between 2020 and 2021 – descends 4-5 on sales of 33,000 copies (down 3 percent). The album has now been certified 7 x Platinum for selling over 2.1 million units! evermore is just the eighth album to ever reach this sales milestone:
- 13 x Platinum – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey
- 11 x Platinum – A Star is Born – OST / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
- 11 x Platinum – folklore / Taylor Swift
- 8 x Platinum – Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey
- 8 x Platinum – Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition / Dua Lipa
- 7 x Platinum – Diva / Annie Lennox
- 7 x Platinum – The Collection / Alanis Morissette
- 7 x Platinum – evermore / Taylor Swift
Swift’s folklore dips 5-6 after spending its first forty-three weeks inside the Top Five! The album – which spent sixteen weeks at No.1 – sold 29,000 copies this week (down 12 percent).
London Grammar hold at No.7 with their No.3-peaking Californian Soil (22,000 units – up 15 percent).
P!nk collects her third Top Ten album as All I Know So Far: Setlist premieres at No.8 with 21,000 sold. The album follows Beautiful Trauma (No.1 – 2017) and Hurts 2B Human (No.2 – 2019) into the upper tier.
Rounding out the Top Ten: Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition slides 6-9 after eight weeks at No.1 (18,000 units – down 5 percent); Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts falls 8-10 (18,000 units – even with last week).
Onto Next Week: Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR should be clear for a second week at the top spot, as the album is tracking to sell over 70,000 copies in its second term.
Notable Moves on Top Contemporary!
No.11 – Women in Music Pt. III / HAIM’s third studio album ascends 12-11 this week, hitting its highest rank since it debuted at its No.8 peak last year, and goes Gold for selling over 100,000 copies since its release.
No.12 – Petals for Armor / Hayley Williams’s Petals peaked at No.3 last year and has so far spent fifty-five consecutive frames on L.dK Weekly! This week it sells another 13,000 units, bringing its total sales figure to a whopping 1.203 million, earning the album a 4 x Platinum certification!
Top Contemporary Albums
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
JONI MITCHELL CELEBRATES THIRTEENTH STRAIGHT WEEK ATOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS!
Plus: Lady Gaga’s Born this Way hits No.9 following its ten-year anniversary!
Joni Mitchell leads the Top Catalogue Albums Chart for a thirteenth consecutive week with Blue – the album continues its rule with 45,000 sold this week (down 6 percent).
Now with thirteen weeks in pole position, Blue ties Taylor Swift’s evermore as the third-longest-running number-one album of all time.
- 17 weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey
- 16 weeks – folklore / Taylor Swift
- 13 weeks – evermore / Taylor Swift & Blue / Joni Mitchell
Lana Del Rey places two albums inside the Top Ten this week: Norman Fucking Rockwell! remains again at No.2 with 22,000 sold (up 10 percent) as it nabs a record-extending fifty-fourth week in the Top Five and record-padding eighty-fourth week in the Top Ten.
Born to Die: the Paradise Edition ticks 7-6 selling 13,000 copies (up 18 percent) and crosses 900,000 copies sold; it has now been certified 3 x Platinum! Del Rey’s impressive bevy of certifications is as follows:
- 13 x Platinum – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
- 8 x Platinum – Lust for Life
- 3 x Platinum – Born to Die: the Paradise Edition
- 2 x Platinum – Chemtrails Over the Country Club ; Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
- Platinum – Honeymoon
- Gold – Ultraviolence ; The Unreleased Collection
Florence + the Machine’s number-one High as Hope stays at No.3 on sales of 16,000 units (down 6 percent) as it becomes the band’s third effort to be certified Platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units. Currently, the outfit’s highest-certified release is 2015’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful which has been certified 2 x Platinum.
Stevie Nicks ranks twice inside this week’s Top Ten: Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks rebounds 5-4 after five weeks at No.1, moving 16,000 copies (on par with last week); her No.3-hit Street Angel tumbles 4-8 with 12,000 sold (down 29 percent).
Capping the Top Five: Kate Bush’s The Whole Story improves 6-5 with sales of 15,000 units (up 15 percent).
Annie Lennox’s former-number-one Diva holds at No.7 (12,000 units – up 9 percent).
Lady Gaga tallies her third Top Ten hit on L.dK Weekly as Born this Way makes its chart debut at No.9 on Top Catalogue Albums. The set sold 11,000 in the wake of its ten-year anniversary.
Rounding out the Top Ten: Alanis Morissette’s The Collection slips 9-10 (10,000 units – on par with last week).
Onto Next Week: Kelly Clarkson’s Greatest Hits – Chapter One could challenge for the No.1 spot, as it looks to sell over 30,000 copies in its first week.
Top Catalogue Albums
Industry Sales
Contemporary Albums generated sales of 543,000 units this week (up 26.8%) while Catalogue Albums generated sales of 376,000 units (up 8%). Contemporary accounted for 59.1% of all consumption this week; versus 40.9% for Catalogue.
Total industry sales stand at 919,000 units, surging 18.4% from last week, and becoming the largest sales week of the year, surpassing the week dated 29 March when 916,000 albums were sold. Compared to the same week last year (when 804,000 albums were sold), consumption is up by 14.3%!
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