ADELE‘S 30 SCORES FOURTEENTH WEEK AT NO.1!
Plus: Tracy Chapman reaches a new peak inside the Top Five!
Adele remains firmly lodged at No.1 for a fourteenth cumulative week with her juggernaut 30. It breaks out of its tie with Taylor Swift’s evermore (thirteen weeks) to become the 4th 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
- Fourteen weeks – 30
9th Bestselling Album Ever: 30 sold 59,000 copies this week (down 8 percent) and has sold 2.28 million units since its release last November. In just fifteen weeks, it has surpassed Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks (2.27 million) to become the 9th bestselling hit of all time. It now sets its sights on Alanis Morissette’s compilation disc, The Collection (2.43 million).
Currently, 30 is the bestselling album of 2022 (971,000); the 6th bestselling album of the decade (2.28 million); and the 9th bestselling album of all time. It 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‘s Seventeen Going Under holds steady at its No.2 peak (after jumping up from No.9 last week). The LP sold 48,000 this week, marking a dip of 4 percent from the previous week. Seventeen has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 units.
Tracy Chapman achieves a new peak position this week as her self-titled debut album rockets 10-3 on sales of 41,000 copies (up 105 percent). The album – now certified Gold – passes its prior peak of No.4, achieved upon its chart debut in December.
Taylor Swift‘s evermore descends 3-4 on sales of 25,000 copies (down 29 percent); Swift also jumps 11-8 with folklore, selling 20,000 units (up 5 percent).
Capping the Top Five: Joni Mitchell‘s Blue pushes 7-5 with 23,000 sold (up 9 percent).
Rounding out the Top Ten: Lana Del Rey’s three-week-leader Blue Banisters sinks 5-6 (22,000 units – down 8 percent); Norah Jones‘s Come Away With Me slides 4-7 after peaking at No.2 (21,000 units – down 33 percent); Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! steps down 9-10 and logs a record-extending 120th week in the Top Ten (18,000 units – down 10 percent).
Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 – currently tracking to sell between 55 – 60k should be clear for a fifteenth week out in front. Sam Fender’s Seventeen Going Under and Tracy Chapman’s eponymous debut are both heading for roughly 50 – 55k and will compete for the No.2 spot.
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty
No.14 – Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks / Nicks’s 2007 compilation album has now spent a full two years (104 weeks) inside the Weekly Top Fifty. It is Nicks’s third album to achieve this following Bella Donna (181 weeks) and Rock a Little (128 weeks).
No.41 – Medusa / Annie Lennox’s sophomore album has now been present on the Weekly Top Fifty for two years (104 weeks). Lennox has also achieved this with her debut album, Diva which has charted for 161 weeks to date.
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
Industry Sales
Industry sales for the week stand at 652,000 units, falling by 5.6% from the previous week’s figure of 690,000 units. Compared to the same week last year (when 792,000 albums were sold), consumption is down by 17.7%.
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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