LANA DEL REY STAYS AT NO.1 WITH BLUE BANISTERS!
Del Rey extends record for most weeks at number-one; Tori Amos debuts at No.3 with Ocean to Ocean.
Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters spends a second week atop L.dK Weekly as it moves 122,000 units in its sophomore frame, marking a fifty-five percent decline from last week’s debut of 267,000 units.
After just two weeks on sale, Blue has already sold 389,000 copies and been certified Platinum! It is Del Rey’s seventh album to be achieve this; her full list of certifications is as follows:
- 15 x Platinum – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
- 9 x Platinum – Lust for Life
- 5 x Platinum – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
- 3 x Platinum – Born to Die: the Paradise Edition & Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
- Platinum – Honeymoon; Blue Banisters & Ultraviolence
- Gold – The Unreleased Collection
As Blue tops the weekly tally for a second term, it marks Del Rey’s forty-fifth week atop the list across her four chart-topping efforts. This further extends her record for the most weeks at number-one among all artists.
- Twenty-four weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
- Eleven weeks – Lust for Life
- Nine weeks – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
- Two weeks – Blue Banisters
NFR! retreats 6-7 this week on sales of 19,000 copies (down five percent) as it nabs a record-padding 106th week in the Top Ten.
Taylor Swift’s evermore paces at No.2 this week, selling 36,000 copies – lifting by twelve percent from last week’s haul. Sister-album folklore moves up 5-4 with 23,000 sold – a gain of nine percent.
Tori Amos shoots onto the Weekly Top 50 at No.3 with her newly released album Ocean to Ocean. The set bows with 31,000 combined units (30,000 pure sales; 1,000 pre-sales).
It earns Amos her third consecutive Top Five hit, following 1992’s Little Earthquakes (No.2) and 1994’s Under the Pink (No.5).
Joni Mitchell rounds out the Top Five this week as Blue descends 4-5, moving 22,000 units (down five percent).
Outside the Top Five: Adele’s 25 drops 3-6 (19,000 units – down twenty-seven percent) and Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts hops 9-8 (18,000 units – up twelve percent).
Amy Winehouse’s legendary set Back to Black roars back onto the ranking at No.9 (15,000 sold) in celebration of its 15-year anniversary this week. The jazz-infused LP has sold over 1.33 million copies and spent over ninety weeks on the list.
Fleetwood Mac cap the Top Ten this week: Greatest Hits flies 13-10 with 15,000 units (up twenty-five percent).
Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters looks bound for a third week at the top of the charts; likely to move around 100,000 units.
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.21 – 19 / Adele’s debut album tumbles to No.21 after placing at No.10 last week; selling 10,000 units this week. The introductory album has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 units; it joins fellow Platinum smash 21 and the Multi-Platinum juggernaut 25!
No.49 – She’s so Unusual / The 1983 debut album from Cyndi Lauper has now become one of the rare albums to spend a full two years on L.dK Weekly! It becomes the 11th album in history to achieve this feat, and currently trails Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST (109 weeks) as the 11th longest-charting album of all time.
L.dK Top 50
TOP ARTISTS
Industry Sales
Industry sales stand at 688,000 units for the week, sliding by 21.7% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 857,000 albums were sold), consumption is down 20%!
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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