ADELE TRIUMPHS FOR SEVENTH WEEK WITH 30!
Plus: Norah Jones’s Come Away with Me debuts at No.2 & Arlo Parks returns to Top Ten!
Adele‘s 30 continues to dominate the L.dK Weekly Top Fifty, shifting a further 118,000 units (down five percent) to win a seventh frame atop the list.
30 is currently tied as the ninth longest-running number-one album of all time, matching the reigns of MARINA’s LOVE + FEAR and Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks. It is also the sixth longest-running chart-topper of the decade, just behind Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia which both racked up eight weeks at the summit.
To date, the blockbuster has shifted a staggering 1.55 million copies in just seven weeks, becoming the fastest album in history to sell as many copies! Previously, Taylor Swift’s evermore held the distinction, clearing the 1.5 million mark in its eleventh week of sales.
30 is Adele’s second album to sell 1.5 million, following 25 which has shifted 1.98 million to date.
This feat adds to 30‘s burgeoning list of accolades; it was crowned the fastest-selling album of all time, selling 650,000 in seven days, and became the fastest album to sell a million copies, doing so in just three weeks!
Norah Jones pays her first visit to L.dK Weekly as her 2002 debut album Come Away With Me bows at No.2 with first-week sales of 94,000 units. The album is already certified Silver, selling over 60,000 copies.
Lana Del Rey descends 2-3 with former three-week-leader Blue Banisters, moving 36,000 units (down sixteen percent). Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! – the longest-running number-one album of all time, boasting a twenty-five week – repeats at No.8 with 21,000 sold (up five percent) as it nabs a record-extending 115th week in the Top Ten.
Taylor Swift’s evermore holds at No.4 – following a whoping thirteen weeks in pole position – as it sells 33,000 copies (down six percent); her chart-topping Red (Taylor’s Version) also dips 5-6 with 23,000 sold (down thirty-two percent).
Joni Mitchell doubles up in the Top Ten this week, like Del Rey and Swift. Her highest-ranking hit is 1971’s Blue – which previously spent twenty-one weeks at No.1 – rising from No.6 to No.5, moving 30,000 units (up three percent). Clouds (1968) meanwhile drops from its No.3 high to No.7 in its second week (22,000 units – down forty-one percent).
Arlo Parks and Miley Cyrus round out the Top Ten: Collapsed in Sunbeams re-enters at No.9 after peaking at No.3 (20,000 units – up 19,000 percent) and chart-topping Plastic Hearts dips 9-10 (17,000 units – down ten percent.
Onto Next Week: The Weeknd could be bound for a No.1 debut with his new release Dawn FM; it will serve as the followup to 2020’s After Hours, a No.1 hit that has since sold over 1.4 million units. Adele’s 30 could also compete for the No.1 spot, as both records look primed to sell over 100,000 copies.
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in Weekly Top Fifty
No.13 – Both Sides Now / Joni Mitchell’s 2000 studio album debuts with sales of 15,000 copies in the week following Mitchell’s Kennedy Centre Honours. It earns the Candian singer-songwriter her fifth Top Twenty hit.
No.29 – Ladies of the Canyon / Joni Mitchell’s third studio album (1969) opens with 8,000 sold. It features the hit “Big Yellow Taxi” which was featured during the Honours Ceremony.
No.30 – Album No. 8 / Katie Melua’s eight studio album has now been certified 2 x Platinum for selling more than 600,000 units; it achieves the feat in its 64th charting week.
No.32 – Back to Black / Amy Winehouse’s smash hit has sold more than 1.42 million copies to date, and this week notches a 100th appearance on L.dK Weekly! It is the 14th album to spend at least 100 turns on the chart.
No.39 – The Wild Heart / Stevie Nicks’s sophomore album logs a 100th week inside the Top Fifty; it is the 15th album to do so, and the third to do so by Nicks. It follows Bella Donna (173 weeks) and Rock a Little (120 weeks).
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
Industry Sales
Industry sales for the week stand at 764,000 units, declining by 7.9% from the previous week’s figure of 828,000 units. Compared to the same week last year (when 779,000 albums were sold), consumption is down by 2.0%!
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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