Taylor Swift’s Midnights makes it three weeks at number-one!
Plus: Sigrid takes the No.2 & No.3 spots with How to Let Go & Sucker Punch.
Taylor Swift’s Midnights earns a third consecutive week atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50, pulling a further 152,000 units in its third term. That’s down just 1.3% from its sophomore haul of 154,000 copies, which followed its 277,000-strong opening. It’s the best third-week performance since Adele’s 30 moved 168,000 in its third frame, following its debut of 650,000 units, and hold-over draw of 206,000.
152,000: Midnights’s third week marks the fifth bestselling week of the year, behind its own first two weeks, 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 583,000 copies to date, and should become Swift’s latest Multi-Platinum hit by next week!
Swift’s wintery evermore slides 5-9 this week with 28,000 units (down 25 percent). It has now spent a whopping 100 consecutive weeks inside the Top 50.
Sigrid celebrates a hugely successful week, basking in the glow of her UK Tour. How to Let Go, the singer’s sophomore album which debuted at No.1 in May, rockets 47-2, drawing 67,000 units – up 1,016 percent from the previous week! How has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.
The Norweigan star also appears at No.3 with 2019’s Sucker Punch – which also debuted at the top spot upon its release – on sales of 50,000 copies (up from a negligible amount the week before).
Don’t Kill My Vibe – the singer’s debut EP is No.27, moving 11,000 copies.
Joni Mitchell’s eleven-week-leader Court and Spark reverses course 3-4 with 45,000 copies sold (down 2 percent).
Madonna’s Celebration dives to No.5 after a total of three weeks at its No.2 highpoint, shifting 42,000 copies (down 35 percent).
Outside the Top Five: The Kooks retreat from their No.4 peak to No.6 with The Best of … So Far (36,000 units – down 7 percent); Mariah Carey’s Greatest Hits falls from its No.6 high to No.7 (32,000 units – down 9 percent); and Adele’s 30 maintains its rank of No.8 after seventeen weeks in pole position (29,000 units – up 4 percent).
The 1975 cap this week’s Top Ten as their chart-topping Being Funny in a Foreign Language sinks 9-10 in its fourth week (26,000 units – up 3 percent).
Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights should easily score a fourth straight week at the summit, selling 125-150,000 copies.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.12 – Smithereens / American-Japanese singer Joji nabs his second Top 20 hit as his latest LP manages a No.12 debut with 24,000 units. Smithereens is the follow-up to 2020’s Nectar which debuted and peaked at No.2, selling 85,000 copies. Nectar re-enters at No.18 this week (14,000 sold), going Triple Platinuim in the process.
No.16 – Turbulent Indigo / It’s a double-whammy this week for Joni Mitchell’s 1994 rennaissance as it surges from No.30 to a new high of No.16 (15,000 units) and goes Gold in the same week, for selling over 100,000 units.
No.19 – Come Away With Me / The 2002 debut album from Norah Jones moves 16-19 this week (14,000 sold) and becomes the singer’s first album to be certified Triple Platinum for selling over 900,000 copies.
No.22 – The Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-influenced piece moves 19-22 (13,000 units) after hitting No.14 last month and becomes Mitchell’s latest piece to be certified Silver, denoting sales exceeding 60,000 copies.
No.35 – For the Roses / Another chart appearance for Joni Mitchell as her 1972 record appears for the first time at No.35, selling 9,000 copies following its 50th anniversary earlier this week.
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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