Taylor Swift ends the year at No.1!
Plus: Kelly Clarkson, Darlene Love & Michael Buble enter the Top Ten with Christmas hits!
Taylor Swift’s Midnights commands the L.dK Weekly Top 50 for a ninth consecutive week, selling a further 64,000 copies (down 33 percent).
Midnights has now sold over 1.2 million copies to date, becoming Swift’s fourth album to be certified at least 4 x Platinum.
Swift also takes the runner-up spot this week as the wintery evermore sails 3-2 on sales of 49,000 copies (up 32 percent). The album previously spent thirteen weeks at the top spot.
Joni Mitchell’s eleven-week-leader Court and Spark retreats 2-3 with 38,000 sold (down 9 percent). Mitchell also returns to the Top Ten with Blue (up from No.14) thanks to its inclusion the Christmasy track “River”. The album drew 21,000 units this week (up 31 percent).
Adele’s 30 elevates 5-4, selling 36,000 copies (down 9 percent) after leading the Top 50 for a whopping seventeen weeks!
Kelly Clarkson leads the Christmas charge this week as Wrapped in Red zooms 20-5 on sales of 34,000 copies (up 183 percent). Red peaked at No.2 in the 2021 Christmas season. Meanwhile, Darlene Love’s Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) debuts at No.7 with 25,000 sold, and Michael Buble’s No.4-peaking Christmas surges 28-9 with 22,000 sold (up 120 percent).
Outside the Top Five: First Aid Kit descends 4-6 with their No.2-peaking Palomino (28,000 units – down 30 percent), and The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far falls 6-8 (24,000 units – down 25 percent) after peaking at No.3.
Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights is currently tracking for a tenth consecutive week at No.1 with projected sales of over 50,000 units.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.20 – Fleetwood Mac / Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled set has now sold over 300,000 copies, becoming the band’s sixth album to reach this status. It joins Greatest Hits & Rumours (7 x Platinum); Tango in the Night (3 x Platinum); Mirage (2 x Platinum); and Tusk (Platinum).
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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