Harry Styles SCORES 2022’S BIGGEST START WITH HARRY’S HOUSE!
Plus: New certifications for Florence + the Machine and Tracy Chapman!
Harry Styles logs the largest debut of 2022 so far as his latest hit, Harry’s House, premieres with a staggering 274,000 units, comprising of 238,000 pure sales and a further 36,000 pre-sales. It passes Florence + the Machine’s Dance Fever which drew 230,000 units just last week, and also tops The Weeknd’s Dawn FM (130,000 units) for the largest pure sales bow of the annum. It is the biggest launch since Adele’s 30 sold a record 650,000 units in its first week in November 2021.
House earns Styles his second number-one album; a feat achieved by only one other male artist – The Weeknd has reached No.1 with 2020’s After Hours, and the previously mentioned Dawn. House follows Styles’s Fine Line which debuted at the top spot in December 2019, eventually becoming a chart mainstay, and selling in excess of 1.6 million copies, making it the bestselling album of all time by a male artist. Fine also vaults back into the Top Ten this week, surging 14-8 with 22,000 copies sold (up 37 percent).
Florence + the Machine’s Dance Fever slips 1-2 in its second week, following its record-breaking debut. It sold a further 71,000 copies in its sophomore frame, marking a steep 70 percent decline in sales. However, when comapred to its pure sales bow of 126,000, sales are down just 44 percent. Dance has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies, becoming the band’s fourth album to do so, following Ceremonials (Platinum); How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (3 x Platinum); and High as Hope (2 x Platinum).
HAIM are down 2-3 with the chart-topping Women in Music Pt. III as it moves 55,000 units (down 4 percent).
Adele’s historic 30 moves down 3-4 following seventeen non-consecutive weeks at the top spot; it sold 51,000 units this week (down 7 percent). 30 is currently the bestselling album of 2022 (1.63 million); the 5th bestselling album of the decade (2.94 million); and is now the 6th bestselling album of all time as it passes Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life (2.90 million). 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)!
Rounding out the Top Five is Sigrid’s How to Let Go (4-5) on sales of 36,000 units (down 18 percent) two weeks after its No.1 debut.
Outside the Top Five: Tracy Chapman’s self-titled chart-topper falls 5-6 (32,000 units – up 6 percent) as it crosses 600,000 sales and earns a Double Platinum certification!
Anhoring the Top Ten: Sam Fender’s four-week-leader Seventeen Going Under falls 6-7 (28,000 units – on par with last week); Cher’s If I Could Turn Back Time holds at No.9 after hitting No.7 (21,000 units – up 5 percent); and Joni Mitchell’s Blue slides 8-10 (20,000 units – down 4 percent).
Onto Next Week: Harry Styles should be a lock for a second week at No.1, with Harry’s House currently tracking to sell more than 100,000 copies in its second term.
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty
No.14 – Come Away With Me / Norah Jones’s debut album – a fusion of jazz , pop and soft rock – peaked at No.2 in Jauary and has spent 21 weeks in the Top Twenty so far, never dipping below No.16. The LP has now been certified Double Platinum for selling more than 600,000 units.
No.17 – The Whole Story / Kate Bush’s 1986 best-of set has now become the first album by the British icon to sell more than 2 million copies. It is her bestselling collection to date, ahead of 1993’s The Red Shoes (1.06 million) which is her bestselling studio album.
No.42 – The Other Side of the Mirror / Stevie Nicks’s fourth studio album re-enters with sales of 7,000 copies following it’s 33rd anniversary last week. Mirror previously spent five weeks at the summit, has sold 1.23 million copies, and has now spent 69 weeks on L.dK Weekly.
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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