ADELE RETURNS TO NO.1
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30 reclaims the crown as Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life re-enters Top Ten!
Adele‘s 30 ranks as the biggest album of the tracking week by a hefty margin, selling 101,000 copies in its ninth frame (down 21.1%). This marks the record’s eighth term out in front, after it slipped to No.2 last week, behind the Weeknd’s newly-released Dawn FM.
To date, 30 – which became the fastest-selling album of all time last year, selling 650,000 in seven days upon its release – has sold 1.78 million copies, making it the 21st bestselling album of all time, passing Jessie Ware’s Glasshouse (1.73 million). It is her 2nd bestselling album to date, behind only…
25 rebounds to No.19 this week on sales of 11,000 copies, bringing its total sales figure to exactly 2 million units! It is just the 13th album ever released to sell as many copies.
Adele’s bestselling albums are as follows:
- 2.00 million – 25
- 1.78 million – 30
- 668,000 – 21
- 399,000- 19
Now with eight weeks at the summit, 30 ties Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia and Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power as the 8th longest-running number-one album of all time!
- Twenty-five weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey
- Twenty-one weeks – Blue / Joni Mitchell
- Seventeen weeks – folklore / Taylor Swift
- Thirteen weeks – evermore / Taylor Swift
- Twelve weeks – A Star is Born – OST / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
- Eleven weeks – Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey
- Nine weeks – Chemtrails Over the Country Club / Lana Del Rey
- Eight weeks – Future Nostalgia , If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power , 30.
Norah Jones rebounds 4-2 with Come Away With Me as the album moves a further 37,000 copies (up five percent).
Taylor Swift‘s evermore is up 5-3 on sales of 35,000 units (up sixteen percent); Swift also elevates 10-9 with folklore, selling 19,000 copies (up eleven percent).
Arlo Parks‘s Collapsed in Sunbeams regresses from its No.3 highpoint to No.4, selling 31,000 copies this week (down fourteen percent).
Last week’s chart-topper – The Weeknd‘s Dawn FM – tumbles to No.5 in its second week on sale. It registered a sharp 77% decline in sales, moving 30,000 units in its sophomore frame. It has sold 160,000 to date.
Lana Del Rey takes out three spot in this week’s Top Ten: three-week-leader Blue Banisters is a non-mover at No.6 (23,000 units – down fifteen percent); Norman Fucking Rockwell! ticks 9-7 (20,000 units – up five percent); and Lust for Life returns at No.10 with 18,000 sold (up eight-hundred percent).
Finally, Joni Mitchell‘s Blue sinks 7-8 (19,000 units – down twenty-one percent).
Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 could earn a ninth week in pole position, possibly with another 100,000 sold. AURORA is also set for a Top Ten start with her new album The Gods We Can Touch, which could open with over 40,000 units.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Top 50
No.12 – Tuesday Night Music Club / Sheryl Crow makes her first L.dK Weekly appearance at No.12 with her 1992 debut set. The album – spurred on by the success of “Strong Enough” – opens with sales of 15,000 units.
No.20 – Ladies of the Canyon / Joni Mitchell collects her sixth Top Twenty hit in under a year as Ladies (1970) lifts 21-20 for a new peak, selling 10,000 copies. It follows Blue (No.1 for twenty-one weeks); Song to a Seagull (No.2); Clouds (No.3); Blue 50: Demos & Outtakes (No.13); and Both Sides Now (also No.13).
No.26 – The Whole Story / Kate Bush’s only compilation album achieves a new certification this week as it surpasses 1.8 million in sales. It has now been certified 6 x Platinum!
No.27 – Love & Fear / MARINA’s 2019 smash-hit drops 13-27 this week, selling 9,000, although it becomes just the 14th album ever to sell 2 million copies!
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