Joni Mitchell spends third week at No.1 with Court and Spark!
Plus: Adele surges to No.2 following Hyde Park!
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark crowns the L.dK Weekly Top Fifty for a third non-consecutive week, selling 72,000 copies (down 4 percent). Court is now the third longest-running number-one album of 2022 to date, following Adele’s 30 (twelve weeks) and Sam Fender’s Seventeen Going Under (four weeks).
Speaking of 30… that album bolts 5-2 on this week’s chart in the wake of Adele’s two performances at Hyde Park over the weekend. 30 sold 51,000 this week (up 24 percent) and has now sold 3.22 million copies to date. Adele’s twpo previous studio albums, 25 and 21, climb 43-31 and re-enter at No.41 respectively.
Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love descends 2-3 after spending two weeks in pole position, selling 45,000 copies this week (down 22 percent). Bush also moves 10-8 with the newly Triple-Platinum-certified hit The Sensual World (22,000 units – down 8 percent); and rises 11-10 with The Whole Story (21,000 units – down 8 percent).
Harry Styles moves down 3-4 this week with his chart-topping third LP, Harry’s House. The album sold 40,000 units this week (down 13 percent).
HAIM round out the Top Five this week as Women in Music Pt. III lifts 6-5 on sales of 38,000 copies (down 3 percent).
Outside the Top Five: Conan Gray’s Superache slides 4-6 in its second week (37,000 units – down 16 percent); Florence + the Machine’s Dance Fever ticks 8-7 after debuting at No.1 in May (25,000 units – down 4 percent); and Regina Spektor’s Home, Before and After falls from its No.7 highpoint to No.9 (22,000 units – down 27 percent).
Onto Next Week: Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark should be on track for a fourth week at the summit, likely with sales of over 60,000 units.
L.dK Weekly Top Fifty
Notable Moves in the Top Fifty
No.17 – Blue / Joni Mitchell’s 1971 masterpiece has now sold a whopping 2.1 million units, becoming just the 16th album ever to be certified 7 x Platinum!
No.30 – Bloom / Troye Sivan’s sophomore studio album has now been certified Triple Platinum for selling over 900,000 copies. The album debuted at No.1 upon its release in Summer 2018, and has since charted for a total of 86 weeks.
No.34 – The Best of … So Far / The Kooks’s compilation album has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 units. The best-of set has peaked at No.28 so far.
No.49 – The Collection / Alanis Morissette’s 2005 compilation disc has sold over 2.5 million copies to date, and has now become the latest album to rack up a total of 100 weeks inside the Weekly Top Fifty!
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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