Maggie Rogers returns to No.1 with Surrender!
Plus: Rina Sawayama goes Gold; Stevie Nicks re-enters Top Ten!
Maggie Rogers’s Surrender ascends 3-1 to log a third non-consecutive week atop the L.dK Top 50. The album sold 65,000 copies this week (up 9 percent).
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark stays at No.2 on sales of 61,000 units (down 4 percent); Mitchell also reaches a new high with Hejira as that album pushes 7-6, selling 24,000 copies (up 4 percent).
Kate Bush’s The Whole Story re-peaks at No.3 for an eighth cumulative week (up from No.6) as it moves 31,000 copies this week (even with last week),
Two former chart-toppers cap the Top Five: Adele holds at No.4 with 30, shifting 30,000 copies (down 10 percent); Elvis Presley keeps at No.5 with Elvis 30 #1 Hits on sales of 26,000 units (down 19 percent).
Outside the Top Ten: Taylor Swift’s evermore lifts 8-7 (24,000 units – up 6 percent); Rina Sawayama’s Hold the Girl slides 1-8, going Gold in its second week (23,000 units – down 72 percent); Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks bounds 13-9 to re-enter the Top Ten (22,000 units – up 37 percent).
Lana Del Rey caps the Top Ten as Norman Fucking Rockwell! remains at No.10 (20,000 units – on par with last week) as it adds a record-extending 134th week inside the Top Ten!
Onto Next Week: Maggie Roger’s Surrender looks bound for a fourth week at the number-one spot with over 60,000 sold. Marcus Mumford’s (self-titled) could enter the Top Ten with over 20,000 copies.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.12 – The Best of … So Far / The Kooks’s compilation album roars to a new highpoint as it surges 19-12 on sales of 16,000 copies (up 23 percent). The disc has sold just under 220,000 units to date.
No.20 – Greatest Hits / Mariah Carey’s 2001 compilation record is her first non-Christmas album to reach the L.dK Top 50, entering with 12,000 sold.
No.24 – 21 / Adele’s sophomore album has now sold more than 900,000 copies, becoming the singer’s third successive hit to be certified Triple Platinum (at least).
No.39 – Bloom / Troye Sivan’s sophomore studio album has now become only the third album ever by a male solo artist to sell more than a million copies, having sold 1.004 million to date. It follows Harry Styles’s Fine Line (1.65 million) and The Weeknd’s After Hours (1.49 million). Currently, Bloom is the longest-charting album of all time by a male artist.
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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