Joni Mitchell leads for ninth week with Court and Spark!
Plus: Maggie Rogers & Enya earn new certifications; Florence + the Machine re-enters Top Ten!
Joni Mitchell’s has now spent a total of nine non-consecutive weeks at number-one on the Top 50 with Court and Spark. It is now the 7th longest-running number-one hit of all time, tied with Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club. The album sold 68,000 copies this week (down 4 percent).
Mitchell’s Hejira meanwhile regresses from its No.7 highpoint to No.8, selling 21,000 units (down 12 percent).
Three chart-topping hits follow inside the Top Five: Maggie Rogers repeats at No.3 with Surrender as it passes sales of 600,000, earning the hit a Double Platinum certification (58,000 units – down 6 percent); Elvis Presley holds at No.3 with Elvis 30 #1 Hits on sales of 37,000 copies (down 3 percent); and Adele’s 30 bullets at No.4 with 34,000 sold (up 13 percent).
Kate Bush’s The Whole Story ascends 6-5 to anchor the Top Five, on sales of 31,000 copies (up 3 percent).
Outside the Top Five: Enya’s newly-Silver-certified The Very Best of Enya drops 5-6 in its second week (22,000 units – down 27 percent); Florence + the Machine’s Dance Fever leaps 11-7 (22,000 units – up 22 percent); Taylor Swift’s evermore keeps at No.9 (21,000 units – down 8 percent); and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! remains at No.10 in its (19,000 units – down 5 percent) record-extending 132nd week inside the Top Ten!
Onto Next Week: Rina Sawayama’s Hold the Girl could debut at the top spot with sales of over 75,000 copies.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.18 – Night Ride Home / Joni Mitchells 1991 record descends 17-18 after peaking at No.14 for three weeks. The album has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies since its release.
No.31 – When the Pawn… / Fiona Apple’s sophomore album has now become her second release to be certified Silver, denoting sales of over 60,000 units, following 2020’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters which has sold over 1 million to date.
No.41 – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die / Panic! at the Disco’s biggest chart hit dips 40-41 in its 22nd charting week. Weird is the band’s first effort to be certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.
No.48 – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks’s third studio album has been a chart mainstay since its first showing in early 2017, and is one of the most successful hits to never reach number-one on the Top 50. Despite never topping the chart, it has now become only the eighth album in history to spend a full three years (156 weeks) on the L.dK Weekly Charts! It is Nicks’s second album to achieve this, following her 1981 debut Bella Donna which has charted for a record 209 weeks to date.
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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