ADELE COLLECTS NINTH WEEK AT NO.1 WITH 30.
As Adele holds at No.1, AURORA debuts at No.2 & Lana Del Rey achieves a new milestone!
Adele’s 30 extends its command over the Weekly Top Fifty as it moves a further 99,000 units (down two percent) to snare a ninth frame out in front.
The album debuted at No.1 on the chart dated 29 November 2021 – selling 650,000 to become the fastest-selling album of all time – and stayed at the top for its first seven weeks, selling 1.55 million copies in that time. It dipped to No.2 in its eighth week, giving way to The Weeknd’s newly released Dawn FM, but would return to No.1 last week.
To date, 30 has sold 1.88 million copies, becoming just the 21st album in history to be certified 6 x Platinum, denoting sales exceeding 1.8 million. It also becomes the 19th bestselling album of all time after just ten weeks on sale, passing Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts (1.83 million).
In addition, 30 now ranks as the 9th bestselling album of the decade, despite only having been on sale for ten weeks! It passes Cyrus’s Plastic and now sets its sights on Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection which has shifted 1.92 million since its release in the Summer of 2020; Adele’s blockbuster is set to top that figure within the week.
Now with nine weeks at the top spot, 30 ties as the 7th longest-running number one of all time, matched with Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club.
- 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 , 30
AURORA scores her highest debut to date on L.dK Weekly as The Gods We Can Touch premieres at No.2 with first-week sales of 64,000 copies. It passes the No.5 debut of A Different Kind of Human – Step 2 – an album that would also later peak at No.2.
Gods is the third Top Ten hit from the Norwegian singer, following Human and Infections of a Different Kind – Step 1 (No.6). She also charted with her 2015 debut All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, which originally topped out at No.15.
All three of AURORA’s previous releases re-enter in the Top Twenty, lead by Demons at a new peak of No.11 (16,000 units); Human follwows at No.16 (13,000); and Infections completes the set at No.18 (12,000).
Taylor Swift‘s evermore repeats at No.3 after previously spending thirteen weeks at No.1. The wintery-folk set sold 36,000 this week, up two percent from the previous week. Swift’s folklore – which led for seventeen weeks – meanwhile steps down 9-10 with 20,000 sold (up five percent).
Norah Jones falls from her No.2 high to No.4 with Come Away With Me. The soft-rock set sold 34,000 this week – marking a dip of three percent from the week before. Arlo Parks meanwhile caps the Top Five as her No.3-peaking Collapsed in Sunbeams falls 4-5, selling 28,000 copies (down ten percent).
Outside the Top Five: The Weeknd‘s Dawn FM dips 5-6 (25,000 units – down seventeen percent) in its third week; Joni Mitchell‘s Blue moves back up 8-7 (22,000 units – up fifteen percent).
Lana Del Rey follows at No.8 with Norman Fucking Rockwell! (down from No.7) on sales of 21,000 units (up five percent). The album has sold 4.81 million copies to date; it is the first album in history to be certified 16 x Platinum for surpassing sales of 4.8 million units! It has also spent a record-extending 118th week inside the Top Ten.
Finally, Del Rey’s Blue Banisters slides 6-9 (20,000 units – down fourteen percent) in its fourteenth charting week.
Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 should earn upwards of 80,000 units, and looks set to easily nab a tenth week at the summit!
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top Fifty
No.12 – Clouds / Joni Mitchell’s 1969 sophomore album slips 11-12 after previously peaking at No.3 in the first week of Jauary; it sold 16,000 units this week. The folk set is now certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies, becoming Mitchell’s second album to achieve this, following Blue (5 x Platinum).
No.23 – Bloom / Troye Sivan’s sophomore full-length set zooms 39-23, registering the largest jump on this week’s chart, selling 11,000 copies. The album has sold just over 700,000 to date and spent 64 weeks inside the Weekly Top Fifty.
No.29 – Diva / Annie Lennox’s debut solo album steps down 28-29 on this week’s rundown, moving 9,000 copies. The former chart-topping LP has now spent a whopping 156 weeks (or three whole years) inside the Top Fifty! It is only the second album in history to achieve this, after Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna which has charted for 176 weeks.
No.33 – Honeymoon / Lana Del Rey’s third full-length album dives 17-33 on sales of 8,000 copies. The album has now been certified 2 x Platinum, denoting sales of over 600,000 units.
No.41 – Medusa / Annie Lennox’s sophomore album moves 40-41 as it sells 6,000 this week. The hit – which previously spent three weeks in pole position – has now surpassed sales of 2 million copies. It is the 14th album in history to achieve this.
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
Industry Sales
Industry sales for the week stand at 755,000 units, dipping by 3.4% from the previous week’s figure of 781,000 units. Compared to the same week last year (when 671,000 albums were sold), consumption is up by 16.3%!
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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