Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark rules for eleventh week!
Plus: Madonna & The Kooks hit Top Five; Taylor Swift’s evermore passes major milestone!
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark has now spent a whopping eleven non-consecutive weeks at number-one on the L.dK Top 50. It is the second longest-running chart-topper of the year, behind only Adele’s 30 (twelve weeks).
Court and Spark sold 74,000 copies this week (down 5 percent) and has moved over 1.4 million units to date.
Mitchell’s Hejira meanwhile regresses from its No.6 highpoint to No.8, selling 30,000 units (down 3 percent).
Madonna collects the second Top Five hit of her career as Celebration rockets 47-2 with 45,000 sold in its first full sales week (up 650 percent). The best-of album follows Madame X which also reached No.2 and has since been certified Triple Platinum, denoting sales of over 900,000 units.
Maggie Rogers’s three-week-leader Surrender slides 2-3 with 41,000 sold (down 27 percent); and Adele’s 30 repeats at No.4 after seventeen weeks in pole position, selling 36,000 copies (down 2 percent).
The Kooks pay their first visit to the Top Five this week as The Best of … So Far sails 9-5 on sales of 35,000 copies (up 52 percent). The sleeper hit has sold over a quarter of a million units since its release five months ago.
Elvis Presley’s Elvis 30 #1 Hits departs the Top Five for the first time as the number-one hit slides 3-6 (33,000 copies – down 25 percent).
Taylor Swift’s wintery evermore bullets at No.7 (33,000 units – up 32 percent) as it becomes just the third album in history to sell more than 4 million copies, following Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (5.51 million) and Swift’s own folklore, which this week becomes the second album to top 5 million sales!
Rounding out the Top Ten: Kate Bush tumbles 5-9 with The Whole Story (28,000 units – down 15 percent); and Mariah Carey’s now-Silver-certified Greatest Hits retreats from its No.8 peak to No.10, although with a bullet (27,000 units – up 12 percent).
Onto Next Week: The 1975 could be on course for their first number-one album with Being Funny in a Foreign Language. The LP is currently tracking to sell over 80,000 copies in its opening week.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.14 – The Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-infused record reaches a new peak as it surges 18-14 on sales of 16,000 copies.
No.23 – Ray of Light / Madonna’s 1998 comeback album debuts on sales of 12,000 copies, nabbing the star her third Top 50 hit.
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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