ADELE DOMINATES FOR THIRTEENTH WEEK!
Plus: Sam Fender reaches the Top Five, Broods debut in the Top Ten & Tracy Chapman returns to the region!
Adele‘s historic 30 commands the L.dK Weekly Top Fifty for a thirteenth non-consecutive week, tying it with Taylor Swift’s evermore as the 4th longest-running number-one album ever!
- Twenty-five weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey
- Twenty-one weeks – Blue / Joni Mitchell
- Seventeen weeks – folklore / Taylor Swift
- Thirteen weeks – evermore & 30
10th bestselling album ever: 30 moved 64,000 units this week (down 16 percent) and has sold a whopping 2.22 million units since its release last November. In just fourteen weeks, it has surpassed Ariana Grande’s Sweetener (2.18 million) to become the 10th bestselling album of all time. It now sits just behind Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks (2.26 million).
Currently, 30 is the bestselling album of 2022 (912,000); the 6th bestselling album of the 2020’s decade (2.22 million); and the 10th bestselling album of all time. It also became the fastest-selling album ever upon its release in November (650,000 units) and set the record for the fastest album to sell 1 million (three weeks) and 2 million copies (12 weeks)!
Sam Fender scores his first Top Five hit as Seventeen Going Under bolts 9-2 in its second week, surging by 138 percent to 50,000 sold. The album has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 units.
Taylor Swift‘s evermore descends 2-3 on sales of 35,000 copies (down 13 percent); Norah Jones falls 3-4 with her No.2-peaking Come Away With Me, selling 31,000 units (down 11 percent).
Lana Del Rey rounds out the Top Five as three-week chart-topper Blue Banisters remains steady at No.5. It sold 24,000 this week (down 4 percent). Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! also leaps 11-9 for a record-padding 119th week in the Top Ten (20,000 units – on par with last week).
Beyond the Top Five: Arlo Parks‘s Collapsed in Sunbeams slides 4-6 (23,000 units – down 12 percent) after peaking at No.3; Joni Mitchell‘s Blue slips 6-7 (21,000 units – down 13 percent) as it celebrates a full year on L.dK Weekly!
Broods debut at No.8 with their newest release: Space Island. It sold 20,000 in its first week, granting the duo their third Top Ten hit, following 2014’s Evergreen (No.7) and 2019’s chart-topping Don’t Feed the Pop Monster; they also peaked at No.11 with 2016’s Conscious. Their 2019 number-one hit bowed with first-week sales of 130,000 units.
Capping the Top Ten: Tracy Chapman‘s eponymous debut album roars 24-10 as it surges by 66 percent to 20,000 sold. The LP previously peaked at No.4 in December, and this marks its first foray back into the Top Ten!
Onto Next Week: Both Adele & Sam Fender could be in contention for the No.1 spot, with 30 looking to sell roughly 55 – 60k units, and Seventeen Going Under gunning for 50 – 55k. The former could become just the fourth album in history to rule for at least fourteen weeks, while Fender could become just the fifth male artist to reach No.1 on L.dK Weekly!
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty!
No.19 – If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher’s Greatest Hits / Cher adds her fourth Top Twenty hit as her 1999 compilation disc premieres at No.19 with first-week sales of 12,000 units. The collection joins Dancing Queen & Heart of Stone (both No.2) and her 1986 self-titled effort (No.6).
No.28 – Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition / Dua Lipa’s disco-pop juggernaut has sold over 3 million copies since its release in March 2020, and has continued to sell consistently almost two years on. This week marks its 100th consecutive appearance on L.dK Weekly, making it just the 19th record to achieve this!
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
Industry Sales
Industry sales for the week stand at 690,000 units, falling by 3.4% from the previous week’s figure of 717,000 units. Compared to the same week last year (when 754,000 albums were sold), consumption is down by 8.5%.
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
L.dK Music 