Florence + the Machine EARN BIGGEST DEBUT OF 2022 WITH DANCE FEVER!
Plus: HAIM cross new milestone; Lana Del Rey makes history!
Florence + the Machine achieve the biggest opening of 2022 to date as their newest release Dance Fever debuts with a massive 230,000 units, comprising of 104,000 pre-sales and 126,000 pure sales. It breaks the record set by The Weeknd’s Dawn FM which opened to 130,000 in January. Note: Dawn still holds the record for the largest pure sales week of the year to date. Additionally, Dance nabs the biggest launch since Adele’s 30 sold a record 650,000 units in its first week in November.
Dance is the third chart-topping record from Florence + the Machine, and their fourth Top Five hit overall. It follows 2011’s Ceremonials (No.1 for three weeks); and 2018’s High as Hope (No.1 for one week); 2015’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful peaked at No.3 but would become the outfit’s bestselling album with sales of almost a million copies! High and Beautiful re-enter back to back at No.20 and No.21 this week, selling 12,000 each.
HAIM move back up 3-2 with their one-week-leader Women in Music Pt. III, selling 57,000 units this week (up 11 percent). The set, which first peaked at No.8 in 2020, has now been certified Double Platinum for selling over 600,000 units.
Adele’s historic 30 moves down 2-3 after spending a whopping seventeen non-consecutive weeks at the top spot; it sold 55,000 units this week (down 9 percent). 30 is currently the bestselling album of 2022 (1.58 million); the 5th bestselling album of the decade (2.89 million); and the 7th 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)!
A pair of chart-topping albums round out the Top Five: Sigrid’s How to Let Go drops 1-4 in its second week, moving a further 44,000 copies (down 41 percent) and earning a Gold certification for selling over 100,000 units; Tracy Chapman stays at No.5 with her self-titled LP on sales of 30,000 units (up 3 percent).
Beyond the Top Five: Sam Fender’s four-week-leader Seventeen Going Under falls 4-6 (28,000 units – down 7 percent); Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters sinks 6-7 after three weeks at the top spot (22,000 units – on par with last week); Joni Mitchell’s Blue rebounds 9-8 (21,000 units – up 5 percent); and Cher’s If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher’s Greatest Hits steps down 8-9 after peaking at No.7 (20,000 units – even with last week).
Del Rey also rounds out the Top Ten this week with Norman Fucking Rockwell! (down from No.7 on sales of 19,000 units – down 9 percent). The album has now sold in excess of 5.1 million copies, making it the first album in history to be certified Platinum seventeen times over! NFR! has also now spent a record-extending 128 weeks inside the Top Ten.
Onto Next Week: Harry Styles looks certain to collect his second number-one album with the highly anticipated Harry’s House. The album is currently tracking to sell 175,000 – 200,000 units in its opening stanza, and could possibly challenge for the largest debut of the year.
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty
No.11 – Sweetener / Ariana Grande’s bestselling effort rockets 37-11 selling 17,000 copies a week after celebrating a whopping three years inside the Weekly Top Fifty! The album has sold just over 2.25 million copies to date, and ranks as the 11th bestselling LP of all time.
No.17 – The Whole Story / Kate Bush’s 1986 compilation album is her biggest hit by a country mile, having peaked at No.3 for seven weeks, and boasting total sales of just under 2 million copies. This week, the best-of set marks its 150th appearance on L.dK Weekly, becoming just the fourth album in history to achieve this, after Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna (192 weeks); Annie Lennox’s Diva (172 weeks); and Grande’s Sweetener (157 weeks).
No.23 – Crystal Visions – the Very Best of … / Stevie Nicks’s bestselling album has now become her first release to sell over 2.4 million copies, earning itself an 8 x Platinum certification! Only eight other albums have achieved this feat.
No.36 – Fearless (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift’s first re-recorded LP became her fifth chart-topping album upon its release just over a year ago, and now becomes her fourth effort to be certified at least Triple Platinum, denoting sales of over 900,000 units.
No.44 – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks’s third solo album has now been certified 5 x Platinum, with total sales of exactly 1.5 million copies. It is Nicks’s third album to achieve this, following 1981’s Bella Donna (7 x Platinum) and 2007’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks (8 x Platinum).
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
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Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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