ADELE RETURNS TO NO.1 WITH 30!
Plus: Allison Russell & Cher hit new milestones!
Adele regains control of the L.dk Weekly Top Fifty, pushing HAIM’s Women in Music Pt. III down to No.2 after a week at the summit. 30 sold 60,000 units this during the latest tracking period (up 3 percent) and has now spent a whopping sixteen weeks at the number-one spot – a figure surpassed only by Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (twenty-five weeks); Joni Mitchell’s Blue (twenty-one weeks); and Taylor Swift’s folklore (seventeen weeks).
With 60,000 sold this week, 30‘s total lifetime sales now total a staggering 2.71 million, making it the fastest album ever to be certified 9 x Platinum, for sales exceeding 2.7 million copies, doing so in just twenty-three weeks.
30‘s certifications history is as follows; each figure is a record among all albums unless stated otherwise:
- Week 1 – Double Platinum (600,000). Tied with Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life
- Week 3 – Triple Platinum (900,000)
- Week 5 – 4 x Platinum (1.2 million)
- Week 7 – 5 x Platinum (1.5 million)
- Week 10 – 6 x Platinum (1.8 million)
- Week 13 – 7 x Platinum (2.1 million)
- Week 18 – 8 x Platinum (2.4 million)
- Week 23 – 9 x Platinum (2.7 million)
30 is currently the bestselling album of 2022 (1.40 million); the 5th bestselling album of the decade (2.71 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 remains at No.3 after four weeks in pole position, shifting 38,000 this week (down 14 percent); Tracy Chapman’s chart-topping self-titled debut album keeps at No.4 on sales of 32,000 units (down 3 percent); Lana Del Rey rounds out the Top Five as three-week-leader Blue Banisters springs 6-5 with 23,000 sold (down 4 percent). Del Rey is also at No.9 this week with NFR! (18,000 units -down 5 percent) as it nabs a record-padding 125th week inside the Top Ten!
Outside the Top Five: Allison Russell’s Outside Child dips 5-6 (21,000 units -down 16 percent) and goes Gold after peaking at No.4, denoting sales of more than 100,000 units; Joni Mitchell repeats at No.7 with the legendary Blue (21,000 units – down 9 percent); Cher’s best-of set, If I Could Turn Back Time hits a new peak as it moves 10-8 (20,000 units – up 5 percent); and Harry Styles rounds out the region as his chart-topping Fine Line slides 8-10 (18,000 units – down 10 percent).
Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 looks to be in contention for a seventeenth cumulative week at the top spot, currently aiming for a sales week of 60 – 65k units.
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty
No.27 – 25 / Adele’s third studio album is the biggest hit in L.dK Weekly history that never reached No.1 on the Weekly Top Fifty, scoring 142 appearances to date, and as of this week, selling 2.107 million units. 25 is just the 12th album ever to be certified 7 x Platinum for selling over 2.1 million copies.
No.31 – Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks’s 1981 debut solo album is the longest-charting album in history – 189 weeks to date – and has now become the 13th album to be certified 7 x Platinum! It has sold 2.104 million copies to date.
No.33 – Young Heart / Birdy’s fourth studio album became her first number-one hit in April 2021, and has since become a chart maintsay and sold over a million copies! This week marks its 52nd showing – equal to an entire year on the Weekly Top Fifty!
No.46 – Back to Black / Amy Winehouse’s final album before her death has now spent an impressive 104 weeks (or two whole years) on the Weekly Top Fifty – a feat only sixteen other albums have achieved.
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).
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