Beyonce holds at No.1 with RENAISSANCE!
Plus: Caroline Polachek’s Desire I Want to Turn Into You makes record-breaking leap to No.2!
Beyonce spends a second consecutive week at number-one on the L.dK Weekly Top 50 with RENAISSANCE. The album sold a further 73,000 units this week, dipping just 7 percent from the previous week’s haul of 79,000.
Caroline Polachek hurtles 50-2 with Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, setting the record for the largest single-week movement in chart history, surpassing Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love which rocketed 50-3 in June 2022. Desire sold 70,000 in its first full week on sale, up 1,300 percent from the week before. The album has also already been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies.
Rounding out the Top Five: First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino bolts 6-3 on sales of 45,000 units (up 18 percent); Rihanna’s newly-Gold-certified ANTI descends 2-4 in its second week, selling 42,000 copies (down 34 percent); and Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-ruler Court and Spark sinks 4-5 with 38,000 sold (down 14 percent).
Outside the Top Five: Elle King’s Come Get Your Wife steps down 5-6 after debuting at No.1 a month ago (30,000 sold – down 29 percent); Paramore’s This is Why slides to No.7 following its No.3 launch last week (30,000 sold – down 48 percent); Adele’s seventeen-week-leader 30 slips 7-8 (25,000 units – down 19 percenet); Taylor Swift’s twelve-week-leader Midnights falls 8-9 (24,000 units – down 8 percent); and The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far moves 9-10 (24,000 units – on par with last week).
Onto Next Week: Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE looks set for a third week in pole position, with anticipated sales of 70-80,000 units. Polachek’s Desire could also be in contention for the top spot, with forecasted sales of 60-70,000 units.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.18 – Lemonade / Beyonce’s critically-acclaimed record returns to the Top 20 amidst the singer’s latest spate of success. To date, Lemonade has sold 609,000 copies, making it Beyonce’s first album to be certified 2 x Platinum!
No.21 – Blue / Joni Mitchell’s magnum opus has now become the Canadian songwriter’s first release to spend a full two years (104 weeks) inside the Top 50. Blue is 25th album in history to achieve this, and has sold 2.67 million copies to date.
No.35 – Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa’s disco-pop masterpiece was the No.2 biggest hit of 2020, topping the chart for eight consecutive weeks, and selling in excess of 2 million copies. Since 2020, the album has continued to rack up sales, and has now been certified 12 x Platinum for exceeding sales of 3.6 million copies. Future is only the sixth album in history to achieve this, following Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (19 x Platinum); Taylor Swift’s folklore (17 x Platinum) and evermore (15 x Platinum); Adele’s 30 (14 x Platinum); and Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST (12 x 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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