ADELE RULES FOR TWELFTH WEEK!
As 30 soars in sales, Sam Fender nabs his first Top Ten!
Adele‘s record-breaking 30 stays put atop the L.dK Weekly Charts for a twelfth cumulative week, tying it with Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST as the 5th longest-running number-one in history!
- 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 & 30
30 moved a further 76,000 units this week (down 20 percent), bringing its lifetime sales total to a staggering 2.16 million after just thirteen weeks! It becomes just the 11th album to be certified 7 x Platinum for sales exceeding 2.1 million units.
30 is currently the bestselling album of 2022 (772,000 sold); the 6th bestselling album of the 2020’s decade (2.16 million); and the 11th bestselling album of all time!
Just last week, the juggernaut made history by selling 2 million copies in just twelve weeks, beating Taylor Swift’s folklore which sold as many units in twenty weeks! Speaking of Swift… evermore holds steady at No.2 in its 62nd charting week, selling 41,000 copies (down 5 percent); folklore also swings 10-7 on sales of 22,000 units (even with last week).
Norah Jones is a non-mover at No.3 with her No.2-peaking Come Away With Me. The album sold 36,000 this week (down 10 percent) and has sold just over 300,000 to date, being Jones’s first album to be certified Platinum.
Capping the Top Five: Arlo Parks ticks 5-4 with the No.3-peaking Collapsed in Sunbeams (26,000 units – down 8 percent); and Lana Del Rey elevates 7-5 with Blue Banisters (26,000 units – up 8 percent).
Two former-chart toppers follow outside the Top Five: Joni Mitchell‘s Blue pushes 8-6 (22,000 units – down 9 percent); and Birdy‘s Young Heart slides 4-8 (21,000 units – down 35 percent).
Sam Fender makes his official chart debut this week at No.9 with his sophomore album Seventeen Going Under. The album sold 21,000 in th week following his BRIT Awards performance.
Finally, Fleetwood Mac‘s Rumours improves to No.10 (20,000 units – down 5 percent) after re-entering at No.11 last week following its 45-year anniversary.
Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 should sell a further 60,000 units, possibly earning the album a thirteenth week at No.1. Sam Fender’s Seventeen Going Under looks set to climb the list with sales of over 40,000 copies. Broods are aiming for a Top Ten start with Space Island (30,000 units).
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty
No.16 – Direct Hits / The Killers open with sales of 15,000 for their 2013 compilation album. It is the first effort from the band to chart on L.dK Weekly.
No.24 – Tracy Chapman / The debut album from American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman re-enters at No.24 (12,000 units), reaching its highest rank since November when it debuted and peaked at No.4.
No.40 – Wonderful Wonderful / The Killers also appear further down the chart as their 2017 record starts with 7,000 sold.
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
Industry Sales
Industry sales for the week stand at 717,000 units, falling by 5.1% from the previous week’s figure of 755,000 units. Compared to the same week last year (when 769,000 albums were sold), consumption is down by 6.8%.
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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