HAIM ROAR TO NO.1 WITH WOMEN IN MUSIC PT. III!
PLUS: Lana Del Rey & Cher return to Top Ten!
HAIM collect their first number-one album with the sleeper hit Women in Music Pt. III as the record blasts 8-1 in its 38th charting week. Women – the 78th album to crown the L.dK Weekly Top Fifty – sold 63,000 copies this week (up 162 percent), earning it the greatest sales week since the week dated 28 February when Adele’s 30 moved 64,000 units.
Adele backtracks to No.2 after a total of fifteen weeks at the top spot with 30, which sold 58,000 this week (up 11 percent). 30 is currently the bestselling album of 2022 (1.34 million); the 5th bestselling album of the decade (2.65 million); and the 8th 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 slips 2-3 after four weeks in pole position, moving 44,000 units this week (down 12 percent); Tracy Chapman’s chart-topping eponymous debut holds at No.4 with 33,000 sold (down 8 percent); and Allison Russell’s Outside Child keeps at No.5 two weeks after debuting and peaking at No.4, on sales of 26,000 copies (down 4 percent).
Outside the Top Five: Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters rebounds 7-6 after spending three weeks at number-one in November (24,000 units – down 4 percent); Joni Mitchell’s Blue reverses course 9-7 after a whopping twenty-one weeks at the summit (23,000 units – down 8 percent); and Harry Styles’s former-number-one Fine Line rises 10-8 (20,000 units – down 14 percent).
Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! re-enters the Top Ten as it swings 12-9 after becoming the first album in history to sell over 5 million copies, moving 20,000 units (up 5 percent). NFR! has now spent a record-padding 124th week in the Top Ten!
Finally, Cher rounds out the Top Ten as If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher’s Greatest Hits shifts 11-10 (19,000 units – up 5 percent) to return to its current chart peak.
Onto Next Week: HAIM’s Women in Music Pt. III should be a lock for a second week at number-one; it is currently aiming to sell upwards of 60,000 units.
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty
No.11 – Superbloom / MisterWives’s 2020 studio album drops 3-11 in its second week, selling 18,000 copies. The LP has now sold 60,000 and has been certified Silver.
No.19 – Direct Hits / The Killers’s 2013 compilation record rises 23-19 (12,000 units) after peaking at No.16 more than two months ago. The best-of set has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 units.
No.24 – Red (Taylor’s Version) / Taylor Swift’s re-recording of her 2012 album debuted at No.1 last November and has so far spent its first 23 weeks inside the Top Twenty-Five. To date, Red has sold just over 600,000 copies, becoming Swift’s sixth album to be certified Multi-Platinum, following folklore (15 x Platinum); evermore (11 x Platinum); Lover (5 x Platinum); Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2 x Platinum); and reputation (2 x Platinum).
No.28 – The Best of … So Far / The Kooks enter at No.28 with their 2017 best-of set, selling 8,000 in its first week.
No.32 – Shake the Spirit / Elle King’s sophomore studio album falls to No.32 with 7,000 sold, and has now been certified Triple Platinum for selling in excess of 900,000 copies. It is King’s first album to achieve this.
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
Industry Sales
Industry sales for the week stand at 754,000 units, down 3.6% from the previous week’s figure of 782,000 units. Compared to the same week last year (when 799,000 albums were sold), consumption is down by 5.7%.
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
L.dK Music 