Joni Mitchell reclaims the No.1 spot!
Plus: Conan Gray & Regina Spektor both debut in the Top Ten!
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark returns to the number-one spot on hit Weekly Top Fifty as it sells a further 75,000 units (up 5 percent). The album – which was certified Platinum last week – has now spent two weeks at the top spot.
Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love falls to No.2 after two weeks in pole position, dropping by 25 percent to 58,000 sold. The art-pop masterpiece has now sold over 900,000 copies, earning it Triple Platinum status! Bush has now achieved this status with all of the following albums:
- 7 x Platinum – The Whole Story (1986)
- 3 x Platinum – The Red Shoes (1993); The Sensual World (1989); Hounds of Love (1985).
Harry Styles repeats at No.3 once again with his two-week chart-topper Harry’s House, on sales of 46,000 units (down 15 percent). The album has now become the first hit released in 2022 to be certified 2 x Platinum for selling over 600,000 units to date. It is Styles’s second effort to achieve Multi-Platinum status, following 2019’s Fine Line which has been certified 5 x Platinum to date.
Conan Gray nabs the week’s highest start as his sophomore set Superache opens at No.4, moving 44,000 in its first week. It trails his debut which launched in the runner-up position in Spring 2020; the Platinum-certified Kid Krow re-enters the Top Fifty this week at No.24 with 13,000 sold.
Adele caps the Top Five as seventeen-week-leader 30 descends 4-5, shifting a further 41,000 copies (down seven percent).
Outside the Top Five: HAIM’s Women in Music Pt. III descends 5-6 (39,000 units – down 7 percent); Regina Spektor’s new Home, Before and After equals her best showing with a No.7 start (30,000 units); Florence + the Machine bullet at No.8 with Dance Fever (26,000 units – up 4 percent); Sam Fender’s Seventeen Going Under slides 6-9 (26,000 units – down 19 percent); Kate Bush’s The Sensual World maintains its position at No.10 (24,000 units – down 4 percent).
Onto Next Week: While Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark should be headed for a third week at the summit (with roughly 70,000 units), Adele’s 30 could earn over 50,000 following her two shows at BST over the weekend!
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty
No.11 – The Whole Story / Kate Bush’s 1986 compilation album has now become only the fourth album in history to spend a full year (156 weeks) inside the L.dK Weekly Top Fifty! It follows Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna (198 weeks); Annie Lennox’s Diva (178 weeks); and Ariana Grande’s Sweetener (163 weeks).
No.16 – Boys for Pele / Tori Amos’s third album (1996) is now her third record to be certified (at least) Silver, following Little Earthquakes (4 x Platinum); Under the Pink (Platinum); and Ocean to Ocean (Gold).
No.18 – Twelve Deadly Cyns / Cyndi Lauper’s 1993 best-of collection peaked at No.11 in January, and has sold steadily since, allowing it to earn sales of 300,000 to date, making it Lauper’s third Platinum-certified hit, following She’s so Unusual (6 x Platinum); and True Colors (Platinum).
No.49 – Little Earthquakes / Tori Amos’s debut album joins a select few albums as it tallies a full second year in the Weekly Top Fifty. It is currently the 18th longest-charting LP of all time!
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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