TAYLOR SWIFT’S Midnights rules for second week!
Swift’s latest blockbuster blows past Platinum status!
Taylor Swift’s Midnights logs a second week atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50, as the set draws 154,000 units in its second week on sale. That’s down down 44.5% from its opening sum of 277,000 copies. It’s the biggest second-week haul since Adele’s 30 moved 206,000 in its sophomore frame, following its debut with 650,000 a week prior.
154,000: To put that number into perspective, it is the greatest non-debut sales week of the year, and ranks fourth overall, behind only its own opening, and the bows of Harry Styles’s Harry’s House (274,000 units – chart dated 30 May), and Florence + the Machine’s Dance Fever (230,000 units – chart dated 23 May).
Midnights has now sold 431,000 copies to date, earning the singer her seventh Platinum-certified hit to date.
Swift’s seasonal evermore holds at No.5 with 37,000 sold (down 10 percent).
Madonna’s Celebration reverses course 3-2 for a third week at its peak position, shifting 64,000 copies (up 3 percent).
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark ascends 4-3, selling 46,000 copies (down 4 percent). The album spent eleven weeks at number-one earlier this year. Mitchell also rebounds 8-7 with the No.6-peaking Hejira, selling 32,000 copies (up 3 percent).
The Kooks are back to their highest rank as The Best of … So Far swings 6-4 on sales of 39,000 units (up 5 percent).
Outside the Top Ten: Mariah Carey elevates 7-6 for a new peak with Greatest Hits (35,000 units – up 2 percent); Adele’s seventeen-week-leader 30 climbs 10-8 (28,000 units – up 7 percent); The 1975’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language holds at No.9 following its No.1 debut (25,000 units – down 8 percent).
Carly Rae Jepsen rounds out the Top Ten as The Loneliest Time slides 2-10 in its sophomore frame, declining by 78 percent to 24,000 units.
Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights is currently headed for a third straight week in the penthouse, with sales of over 125,000 units. Joji could also nab a Top Five debut with Smithereens, tracking for opening sales of over 40,000 copies.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.11 – Blue / Joni Mitchell’s seminal record maintains its No.11 rank in its 88th week inside the Top 50, selling 23,000 copies. The juggernaut has now been certified 8 x Platinum for selling over 2.4 million units, becoming just the 13th album in history to achieve this!
No.25 – 21 / Adele’s sophomore album rises 25-24 with 10,000 sold as it logs its milestone 104th week in the Top 50. With a full two years on the chart, 21 becomes the (fittingly) 21st album to spend as long on the list.
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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