Taylor Swift’s Midnights tightens its grip, logs fifth week at No.1!
Plus: First Aid Kit rocket to No.2, Adele re-enters Top Five, albums from Carly Rae Jepsen & Joni Mitchell return to Top Ten!
Taylor Swift’s Midnights spends a fifth successive week at No.1 on the L.dk Weekly Top 50. The album moved 144,000 units, sporting a surprise gain of 12.5% from the previous week.
Midnights debuted at No.1 on the chart dated Nov. 4, with 277,000 units, becoming the fastest-selling album of 2022. It sold 154,000 & 152,000 in its second and third weeks, respectively, and drew 128,000 in its fourth term.
Midnights scores the biggest fifth-week sales figure since Adele’s 30 sold 152,000 – also in its fifth week at the top of the charts.
Swift’s evermore also ascends 9-8 with 26,000 sold (down 7 percent). The wintery set previously spent a whopping thirteen weeks at the top of the charts.
First Aid Kit’s Palomino spikes to No.2 in its second week (up from its debut at No.5), earning 75,000 units in its second week – up an impressive 108 percent. The folk-rock LP has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies.
Adele’s 30 makes its appearance in the Top Five since the chart dated Oct. 17, rising 6-3 following the opening of Adele’s Vegas Residencey – ‘Weekends with Adele’. The smash hit – which has logged seventeen weeks at number-one to date – sold 49,000 this week (up 48 percent).
30 has now been certified 13 x Platinum for selling in excess of 3.9 million copies. Only three other albums have sold as many copies: Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (5.60 million), and Taylor Swift’s folklore (5.09 million) and evermore (4.19 million).
Joni Mitchell’s eleven-week-leader Court and Spark repeats again at No.4, on sales of 45,000 copies (up 7 percent). Mitchell’s Hejira also re-enters the Top Ten as it pushes 11-10, selling 21,000 units (down 9 percent). Hejira peaked at No.6 in October and would stay there for three non-consecutive weeks.
The Kooks round out the Top Five this week as The Best of … So Far regresses from its No.3 peak to No.5, shifting 41,000 units (down 2 percent).
Outside the Top Five: Mariah Carey’s Greatest Hits lifts 7-6 for a second week at its highpoint (35,000 units – up 6 percent), and Sigrid’s chart-topping How to Let Go slides 2-7 (30,000 units – down 42 percent).
Finally, Carly Rae Jepsen’s The Loneliest Time returns to the Top Ten this week as it lifts 12-9 (23,000 units – up 9 percent). Loneliest debuted at No.2 on the chart dated Nov. 4, blocked from a No.1 bow by Swift’s Midnights.
Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights should have no trouble securing a fifth straight week at No.1, thanks to expected sales of over 125,000 units.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.20 – Surrender / Maggie Rogers’s sophomore studio album jumps 29-20 (11,000 units), and becomes her first album to be certified Triple Platinum, denoting sales of over 900,000 copies.
No.18 – 21 / Adele’s second record bounds 36-18 (11,000 units), also experiencing a boost this week, in line with 30. Her third album 25 also improves 43-37 with 7,000 sold.
No.30 – Plastic Hearts / Miley Cyrus’s biggest careeer hit swings 42-30 (9,000 sold) as it becomes the 22nd album to spend a full two years inside the Top 50. Plastic – which has sold 2.28 million to date – is tied with Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black as the 21st longest-charting album of all time.
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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