Elle King rules for a second week; the Grammys cause major disruption!
Albums from Adele, Beyonce, Brandi Carlile & Harry Styles make gains following the 65th Grammy Awards!
For a second consecutive week, Elle King’s third studio album Come Get Your Wife, holds the No.1 position on the L.dK Weekly Top 50. It declined just 19 percent to sell 60,000 copies in its sophomore frame, earning it Gold status for selling over 130,000 to date.
Wife is now King’s first effort to spend multiple weeks in pole position, surpassing Love Stuff which enjoyed a single week at the top in 2017.
Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark stays at No.2 after twelve weeks at the summit, selling 46,000 copies (down 10 percent).
Beyonce leads this year’s Grammys spike, as last year’s RENAISSANCE re-enters at a new peak position of No.3, shifting 45,000 copies (up from a negligible amount the week before). RENAISSANCE initially debuted and peaked at No.4 upon its release in August 2022, and promptly vanished from the list after just two weeks.
With this week’s sales figures, the LP earns Gold status, with total sales of 118,000 to date. It is Beyonce’s fourth album to achieve this.
RENAISSANCE and its tracks picked up the awards for Best Dance Recording (‘Break My Soul’); Best Dance / Electronica Album (RENAISSANCE); Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (‘Plastic off the Sofa’); and Best R&B Song (‘Cuff It’). The album also earned a nod for Album of the Year, while further tracks were nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Performance, and Best Song Written for Visual Media.
Also boosted by the announcement of her forthcoming world tour earlier in the week, Beyonce’s previous albums Lemonade and Beyonce return at No.18 (13,000 units) and No.33 (9,000 sold) respectively – both records peaked at No.2 in 2017.
Adele’s seventen-week-leader 30 leaps 7-4 following the singer’s night at the ceremony, selling 40,000 units (up 42 percent).
30‘s lead-off single ‘Easy On Me’ triumphed in the race for Best Pop Solo Performance, among nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Music Video. Parent album 30 was also considered for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album.
The rest of Adele’s catalogue largely improved this week, with 21 rising 38-32 (9,000 sold) and 19 re-entering at No.46 (6,000 sold). 25 dips from No.33 to No.39 with 7,000 sold.
First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino reverses course 4-5 with 39,000 sold (up 14 percent), as Taylor Swift’s twelve-week-ruler Midnights dives 3-6 on sales of 30,000 copies (down 30 percent). Swift’s evermore meanwhile tumbles 5-9 with 22,000 sold (down 29 percent).
Grammy champion Brandi Carlile debuts at No.7 with her seventh studio album, In These Silent Days, moving 29,000 copies. The album and its tracks took home for the awards for Best Rock Song & Best Rock Performance (‘Broken Horses’) and Best Americana Album (In These Silent Days). The album also picked up a nomination for Album of the Year, while further tracks were in the running for Record of the Year, Best American Roots Song, and Best Americana Performance.
The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far sinks 6-8 after reaching No.3 (24,000 sold – down 17 percent).
Finally, Harry Styles caps the Top Ten as this year’s Grammy Album of the Year, Harry’s House spikes 46-10 with 21,000 copies sold (up 250 percent). In addition to its major win, the album also took home the title of Best Pop Vocal Album. It’s lead single ‘As It Was’ was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance & Best Music Video.
Onto Next Week: Elle King’s Come Get Your Wife could be in contention for a third week at the top of the charts, with expected sales of roughly 50,000 copies, but Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE appears as the more promising candidate as it continues to grow following the Grammys, currently looking to sell between 50,000 and 60,000 copies. However, both albums could be leapfrogged by Paramore’s newly released This Is Why which could debut with anywhere betwen 50,000 and 75,000 copies sold.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.17– Bad Girls / Donna Summer’s landmark record descends 13-7 after peaking at No.11 in late January, selling 14,000 copies. The album has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 units.
No.38 – Bloom / Troye Sivan’s sophomore studio album slips one spot to No.38 this week, selling 8,000 copies. The long-running hit has now become the first from a solo male artist to chart for a full two years, or 104 weeks! Bloom has sold over 1.06 million copies to date, ranking as the 3rd bestselling album by a male artist, behind Harry Styles’s Fine Line (1.65 million) and The Weeknd’s After Hours (1.49 million).
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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