HALSEY TOPS CONTEMPORARY ALBUMS FOR THIRD WEEK WITH IF I CAN’T HAVE LOVE, I WANT POWER!
Plus: Kacey Musgraves debuts at No.3.
Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power dominates the race among Contemporary Albums for a third successive week, selling 118,000 units this week (down nineteen percent).
Power ties Manic as Halsey’s longest-running chart-topping album to date.
Lorde’s Solar Power bullets at No.2 – selling 52,000 copies (up one percent) – three weeks after it debuted at the top spot.
Country star Kacey Musgraves launches at No.3 with her latest collection Star Crossed. The LP bows with combined sales of 38,000 copies; the figure comprises of 35,000 in first-week sales and a further 3,000 pre-sales derived from singles.
Taylor Swift holds at No.4 with seventeen-week-leader folklore, moving 30,000 copies (down ten percent), as it notches a 60th consecutive week inside the Top Ten.
Billie Eilish’s Happier than Ever drops 3-5 on sales of 28,000 units (down twenty percent); the album spent two weeks at the top spot earlier this year.
Taylor Swift remains at No.6 with former-number-one album evermore (28,000 units – down four percent).
Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club rises 8-7 (27,000 units – up twenty-two percent) after spending a whopping nine weeks at number-one earlier this year.
Capping the Top Ten: Jade Bird’s chart-topping Different Kinds of Light dives 5-8 (26,000 units – down nineteen percent); Big Red Machine’s How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? sinks 7-9 after peaking at No.5 (21,000 units – down sixteen percent); and Miley Cyrus’s former-chart-topping Plastic Hearts slips 9-10 (16,000 units – down eleven percent).
Onto Next Week: Halsey could earn a fourth week in the penthouse with If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.
Notable Moves on Top Contemporary Albums!
No.11 – Young Heart / Birdy’s fourth LP is one of this year’s biggest contemporary hits, having peaked at No.1 for two weeks and spent over four months inside the Top Ten. This week, as the set slides to No.11, it becomes the singer’s first effort to be certified 2 x Platinum for selling over 600,000 units. Currently, Young is the eighth bestselling album of the year among its Contemporary rivals.
TOP CONTEMPORARY ALBUMS
LANA DEL REY TALLIES RECORD TWENTY-THIRD WEEK ATOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART!
Plus: Del Rey places a further four albums inside the Top Ten!
Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! tallies a record-extending twenty-third week atop the Catalogue Albums Chart, shifting 28,000 units (up twenty-seven percent).
NFR! also adds a record-padding sixty-ninth week in the Top Five, and becomes the first album in history to spend 100 weeks inside the Top Ten!
More Del Rey: As her newest studio album approaches (Blue Bannisters is penned for an October 22 release date), Del Rey places a total of five albums inside this week’s Top Ten!
Honeymoon surges 19-5 on sales of 15,000 copies (up 152 percent) after peaking at No.4 earlier this year; eleven-week leader Lust for Life blasts 20-6 also moving 15,000 copies (up 152 percent); the No.2-peaking Born to Die: the Paradise Edition pushes 8-7 with 14,000 sold (up forty percent); and the No.8-peaking Ultraviolence re-enters at No.10 selling 12,000 units.
Back in the Top Five: Joni Mitchell’s chart-topping Blue repeats at No.2 with 20,000 units (up four percent); Kate Bush’s The Whole Story returns to its highpoint of No.3 (up from No.4) moving 16,000 units (on par with last week); and Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks falls 3-4 with 16,000 units (down six percent) after a total of seven weeks at the top of the charts.
A pair of number-ones fill in the last spots outside the Top Five: Annie Lennox slides 5-8 with Diva (12,000 units – even with last week); and Fleetwood Mac sink 6-9 with Greatest Hits (12,000 units – even with last week).
Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey could dominate once again with her resurgent catalogue; NFR! again looks to be the front-runner for the number-one spot.
Notable Moves on Top Catalogue Albums!
No.11 – Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks’s solo debut album is among the biggest hits in L.dK Weekly history, and is the longest-charting record ever released. Now, just a week after becoming the first LP to spend a whole three years on the tally, it becomes Nicks’s second album to be certified 6 x Platinum for selling more than 1.8 million copies! Bella Donna is now positioned as the sixteenth bestselling album of all time, behind Annie Lennox’s Medusa at No.15 with 1.91 million sales.
TOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS
Industry Sales
Contemporary Albums recorded sales of 491,000 units this week (up 0.6%) while Catalogue Albums generated sales of 295,000 units (up 3.5%). Contemporary accounted for 62.5% of all sales this week; versus 37.5% for Catalogue.
Total industry sales stand at 786,000 units for the week, rising by 1.6% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 679,000 albums were sold), consumption is up 15.7%!
Note
This chart reflects my own personal music consumption; 1 song = 1,000 units. Top Contemporary Albums measures the performance of albums released within the past 18 months; Top Catalogue Albums ranks the performance of albums released prior to the past 18 months.
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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