Taylor Swift’s Midnights rules for twelfth week!
Midnights becomes the longest-running number one album since Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark; Miley Cyrus re-enters Top Ten!
Selling a further 50,000 copies (down 35 percent), Taylor Swift’s Midnights collects a twelfth cumulative week at the summit of the L.dK Weekly Top 50.
Midnights is now tied with Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark, and Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST, as the fifth-longest-running number-one album of all time!
Swift also steals the No.2 spot this week with fifteen-week-leader evermore, on sales of 47,000 units (down 25 percent).
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark remains at No.3 on sales of 41,000 units (down 8 percent), and reverses course 7-9 with Hejira, selling 18,000 copies (down 22 percent).
Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 keeps at No.4 with 36,000 sold (down 8 percent); and First Aid Kit’s Palomino stays at No.5 after peaking at No.2, selling 31,000 units (on par with last week).
Outside the Top Five: The Kooks’s No.3-peaking The Best of … So Far holds at No.6 (27,000 units – up 13 percent), while Arlo Parks’s Collapsed in Sunbeams ascends 9-7 (23,000 units – up 15 percent).
Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! charts a record-padding 137th week in the Top Ten: stationary at No.8 this week (20,000 units – down 4 percent).
Miley Cyrus anchors the Top Ten this week as Plastic Hearts swings 13-10, earning its first appearance in the region since January 2022, moving 18,000 copies (up 12 percent). The jump in sales comes after Cyrus released her new single “Flowers” last week, which previews Endless Summer Vacation – due March 10th.
Since its release, Plastic has spent two weeks at No.1, charted for 111 weeks, including a fifty-one-week stay in the Top Ten. It has sold over 2.3 million copies and ranks as the 9th bestselling album of the decade.
Onto Next Week: Elle King should be bound to score her second chart-topping album with Come Get Your Wife. The country-flavoured release is set to sell over 60,000 in its opening stanza.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.21– The Whole Story / Kate Bush’s 1986 compilation album is is up two spots this week, with 10,000 sold, bringing its total sales to a whopping 2.7 million! This makes Story just the tenth record in history be certified at least 9 x Platinum.
No.42 – Diva / Annie Lennox’s solo debut album achieved immediate success upon its release, scoring a No.1 debut and eventually becoming the second-longest charting album of all time, with 207 weekly appearances to date. Now, Diva joins the exclusive Diamond Club, as it crosses the 3 million sales mark. Only six other albums have achieved this feat, and Diva is the first album released before the chart’s inception to join the exclusive list.
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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