Elle King debuts at No.1 with Come Get Your Wife!
King scores her third straight Top Five album!
Country-rock star Elle King debuts at the pinnacle of the Weekly Top 50 with her third studio album Come Get Your Wife, thanks to combined sales of 74,000 copies, comprising of 67,000 pure sales and a further 7,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album’s release.
Wife is King’s third successive album to peak inside the Top Five, and second number-one hit, following the introductory Love Stuff which spent a week at the summit in 2017. Her 2018 sophomore set, Shake the Spirit, debuted and peaked at No.2, but with impressive first-week sales of 147,000 units!
The afforementioned albums both re-enter the Top 50 this week: Spirit returns at No.15 with 13,000 sold, and Love re-appears at No.17 with 12,000 sold.
To date, King has sold over 1.7 million albums, and racked up an impressive 117 week stay inside the Top 50 across her three albums.
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark ascends 3-2 on sales of 51,000 copies (up 21 percent). The album previously spent a whopping twelve weeks in command of the tally! Mitchell is also down 9-10 with the No.6-peaking Hejira, with 18,000 sold (even with last week).
Taylor Swift’s Midnights tumbles 1-3 after twelve non-consecutive weeks at the top spot, selling 43,000 copies (down 14 percent); fifteen-week-chart-topper evermore is also down 2-5 on sales of 31,000 units (down 34 percent).
Rounding out the Top Five, First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino elevates 5-4 with 34,000 sold (up 9 percent).
Outside the Top Five: The Kooks’s No.3-peaking The Best of … So Far keeps again at No.6 (29,000 units – up 7 percent); Adele’s 30 dives 4-7 after seventeen weeks at number-one (28,000 units – down 22 percent); Arlo Parks’s No.3-hit Collapsed in Sunbeams retreats 7-8 (24,000 units – up 3 percent); Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! descends 8-9 in its record-extending 138th week in the Top Ten (21,000 units – up 5 percent).
Onto Next Week: Elle King’s Come Get Your Wife could score a second frame atop the chart with sales of over 50,000 copies. However, with the Grammys set for Monday 6th, multiple albums could score large gains, and one (or even multiple) could pose a threat to the crown. Those records include: Adele’s 30, Beyonce’s Renaissance, Lizzo’s Special, Harry Styles’s Harry’s House, Doja Cat’s Planet Her, Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days, and many more!
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.14– Surrender / Maggie Roger’s sophomore studio album made its mark in 2022, topping the Top 50 for three weeks, and finishing as the 21st biggest album of the year! Now, it has become the 62nd album in history to sell over a million copies, having shifted 1.004 million units to date.
No.20 – Diva / After crossing the Diamond threshold last week, Annie Lennox’s debut solo album continues to break new ground. It has now become only the second album in history to chart for a full four years (208 weeks) on the L.dK Weekly Top 50. It follows Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna which has charted for 227 weeks to date.
No.28 – The Very Best of Enya / The second compilation album from Irish singer-songwriter Enya attains Platinum status this week for selling more than 300,000 units.
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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