Rina Sawayama steals top spot with Hold the Girl!
Plus: New certifications for Joni Mitchell & Adele!
Rina Sawayama debuts at No.1 on the L.dK Top 50 with her sophomore title Hold the Girl. The LP debuts with 58,000 in pure sales, while drawing a further 23,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album. Already certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies, Girl becomes Sawayama’s first chart-topper, and her second Top Five hit.
Her Platinum-certified debut album SAWAYAMA re-enters at No.22 this week with 12,000 sold. It previously rose as high as No.4 in early 2021.
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark slips to No.2 after a total of nine weeks at the summit, shifting 64,000 copies (down 6 percent). It has now become Mitchell’s second album to be certified 4 x Platinum for selling in excess of 1.2 million copies.
The Canadian legend is also up 8-7 with 1976’s Hejira on sales of 22,000 copies (up 4 percent) for a second week at its peak.
Maggie Rogers descends 2-3 with two-week-leader Surrender as it moves a further 60,000 copies (up 3 percent).
Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler, 30 sticks at No.4 with 33,000 sold (down 3 percent) as it becomes just the fifth album in history to be certified 12 x Platinum, denoting sales of over 3.6 million copies.
Elvis Presley anchors the Top Five as the chart-topping Elvis 30 #1 Hits slides 3-5 with 32,000 sold (down 13 percent).
Outside the Top Five: Kate Bush’s No.3-peaking The Whole Story steps down 5-6 (31,000 copies – even with last week); Taylor Swift’s evermore bumps 9-8 (22,000 units – up 4 percent); Enya’s The Very Best of Enya dives 6-9 after debuting at No.5 (20,000 units – down 8 percent); and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! remains at No.10 in its record-padding 133rd week inside the Top Ten (20,000 units – up 6 percent).
Onto Next Week: Both Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark and Maggie Rogers’s Surrender are currently tracking to sell over 60,000 copies, and so could be in close contention for the No.1 spot.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.24 – Sweetener / Ariana Grande’s fourth studio album became a smash upon its release in the Summer of 2018, and has cemented itself as an all-time great in the years that have followed. Including this week’s haul of 11,000 units, the album has sold over 2.4 million copies, earning it an 8 x Platinum distinction – a feat accomplished by just eleven other albums.
No.27 – Tracy Chapman / The debut album from this singer-songwriter has now been certified Triple Platinum for selling over 900,000 copies since its retrospective release in the Winter of 2021. It reached No.1 in March this year, and has continued to sell well since.
No.46 – Let Go / Avril Lavigne’s debut album makes its first chart appearance at No.46 with 6,000 sold in the latest tracking week. It has moved 21,000 copies 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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