Taylor Swift’s Midnights clocks in a fourth week at No.1!
Swift’s latest juggernaut goes Double Platinum this week, as First Aid Kit earn their First Top Five hit!
Taylor Swift’s Midnights logs a fourth successive week comfortably atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50, earning a further 128,000 units in its fourth term, representing a drop of 15.8% from the previous week when it sold 152,000 copies. It’s the biggest third-week sales haul for an album since Adele’s 30 drew 137,000 at the same point during its chart run.
Midnights has now sold 711,000 units since its release, becoming Swift’s newest Multi-Platinum hit! It joins a bevy of other albums, listed below:
- 2017 – reputation (2 x Platinum)
- 2019 – Lover (5 x Platinum)
- 2020 – folklore (16 x Platinum); evermore (13 x Platinum)
- 2021 – Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2 x Platinum); Red (Taylor’s Version) (3 x Platinum)
- 2022 – Midnights (2 x Platinum)
Swift also takes the No.9 spot this week with evermore, which originally ruled for thirteen weeks in 2020-2021, selling 28,000 copies (even with last week).
Sigrid’s chart-topping sophomore set How to Let Go continues to perform well in the aftermath of the Norweigan star’s tour, selling a further 51,000 copies this week (down 24 percent). The singer’s debut album Sucker Punch – which also peaked at No.1 in 2019 – meanwhile descends 3-8 on sales of 33,000 units (down 34 percent).
British band The Kooks are up to a new high this week, as The Best of … So Far picks up three spots to No.3, passing its former peak of No.4. The collection sold 42,000 this week (up 16 percent).
Joni Mitchell’s eleven-week-leader Court and Spark holds steady at No.4, shifting 42,000 units (down 6 percent).
Swedish sister-duo First Aid Kit nab the No.5 spot with the debut of their fifth studio album, Palomino. The LP sold 36,000 this week, granting thegroup for their first Top Ten hit.
Outside the Top Five: Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 lifts 8-6 following its 7 Grammy nominations this week, and celebrates a full year inside the Top Fifty, all of it having been spent inside the Top Ten (33,000 units – up 14 percent)! Mariah Carey’s No.6-peaking Greatest Hits bullets at No.7 (33,000 units – up 2 percent).
Madonna’s Celebration tumbles 5-10 after spending three weeks at its No.2 highpoint (27,000 units – down 36 percent). It has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.
Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights is currently gunning to sell upwards of 100,000 copies in its fifth week, all but ensuring it another week at the No.1 spot!
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.18 – Direct Hits / The Killers re-enter the Top 20 for the first time since the beginning of October with their 2013 compilation record. Hits has sold over 470,000 copies to date, and has so far peaked at No.16.
No.19 – Tracy Chapman / Chapman’s debut record initially seemed to be a flash in the pan, debuting at No.4 in late-November 2021, and quickly disappearing from the charts. But it would re-enter the Top Ten in February of this year, and two weeks later, in March, reach the No.1 spot where it would stay for a single week. Chapman has now become the singer’s first record to sell over a million copies – it is the 56th album in history to achieve this milestone.
No.26 – Greatest Hits / Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 best-of set ascends 29-26 (10,000 sold) as it tallies its milestone 156th week inside the Top 50. Only eight other albums have spent at least three years on the ranking, led by Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna (218 weeks).
No.27 – The Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-flavoured record descends 22-27 after peaking at No.14. It is now Mitchell’s tenth record to be certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies.
No.31 – Harry’s House / Harry Styles’s third studio record bounces 46-31 this week on sales of 9,000 copies. It has now sold 900,000 units since its release in May, becoming Styles’s second album to do so, following Fine Line. This makes Styles the only male artist with multiple Triple Platinum records. Contemporaries The Weeknd, Troye Sivan & Joji, all boast one such album – After Hours (1.49 million); Bloom (1.02 million); and Nectar (915,000).
L.dK Weekly Top Artists
Note
Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).
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