Taylor Swift rules for fifteenth week with evermore!
As the Christmas hits melt away, albums from The Kooks, Joni Mitchell, Mariah Carey & Carly Rae Jepsen vault back into Top Ten!
Taylor Swift’s evermore logs a fifteenth non-consecutive week at number-one on the L.dK Weekly Top 50, selling 59,000 units (up 1 percent). Currently, evermore is the fifth longest-running number-one album of all time, behind Swift’s own folklore & Adele’s 30 (seventeen weeks); Joni Mitchell’s Blue (twenty-one weeks); and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (twenty-five weeks).
Swift’s Midnights recovers one spot to No.2, selling 54,000 copies (up 4 percent), after it led for its first nine weeks.
Joni Mitchell’s eleven-week-leader Court and Spark springs 5-3 with 42,000 copies sold (up 7 percent). The aforementioned Blue ascends 10-6 with 24,000 sold (up 4 percent), while the No.6 peaking Hejira lungs 13-8 on sales of 22,000 copies (up 15 percent). Hejira has now been certified Double Platinum for selling over 600,000 copies, becoming Mitchell’s third record to do so behind Spark and Blue.
Adele’s 30 re-enters the Top Five, jumping 6-4 on sales of 39,000 units (up 14 percent), and First Aid Kit anchor the region with the No.2-peaking Palomino (up from No.8) which sold 26,000 this week (up 4 percent).
Outside the Top Five: The Kooks’s No.3-hit The Best of So Far leaps 11-7 (23,000 units – up 4 percent); Mariah Carey’s No.6-peaking Greatest Hits bursts 16-9 (19,000 units – up 12 percent); and Carly Rae Jepsen’s The Loneliest Time swings 17-10 after topping out at No.2, while achieving Platinum status (17,000 units – up 6 percent).
Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s evermore & Midnights could battle for the number-one spot once again. Currently, evermore is currently to sell between 50-60,000 units, while Midnights is gunning to sell 50-55,000 copies.
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No.15 – Being Funny in a Foreign Language / The 1975’s latest album bounves 29-15 in the vaccum left by the exiting holiday music, selling 12,000 copies. The record has now sold over 300,000 copies, becoming the band’s first effort to be certified Platinum.
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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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