Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE celebrates a month at number-one!
Plus: The Kooks break new ground, and Lana Del Rey re-enters Top Ten!
Beyonce logs a fourth consecutive week at number-one on the L.dK Weekly Top 50 with RENAISSANCE. The album sold 88,000 copies (down 3 percent) in the latest tracking week.
Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You nabs a third week at its No.2 highpoint, shifting a further 74,000 copies (down 3 percent). The album now ranks among the Top Ten bestselling albums of 2023 to date, surpassing Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! at No.10, which has sold 223,000 since the start of the year.
Paramore’s Gold-certified This is Why rises 4-3, returning to its highest position. It sold 56,000 this week (up 51 percent), falling just shy of the album’s best weekly haul of 57,000 copies, achieved in its debut frame.
First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino lifts 5-4 with 37,000 sold (up 6 percent); and Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark dips 3-5, also on sales of 37,000 copies (down 7 percent), to round out the Top Five.
Beyond the Top Five: Elle King’s former-chart-topper Come Get Your Wife rebounds 8-6 (30,000 sold – up 11 percent); Adele’s 30 keeps at No.7 after seventeen weeks in pole position (27,000 units – on par with last week); and Rihanna’s No.2-hit ANTI dips 6-8 (27,000 units – down 7 percent).
The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far, which previously peaked at No.3, maintains its rank from last week of No.9 (25,000 units – up 4 percent). The album has now become the first from the outfit to be certified Triple Platinum, denoting sales of over 900,000 copies.
Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! ascends 11-10 after the singer picked up the Visionary Award at Billboard’s recent Women in Music Event. The album sold 24,000 copies this week (up 14 percent) and has sold over 5.89 million to date. In addition, NFR! scores a record-padding 139th week inside the Top Ten!
Onto Next Week: Miley Cyrus’s Endless Summer Vacation seems destined for glory, with current forecasts suggesting a debut between 100-125,000 units. Panic! At the Disco could also make a dent in the Top Ten following their last ever performance in Manchester over the weekend, with Death of a Bachelor currently looking to sell over 40,000 units, and Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die aiming for over 30,000; their Pray for the Wicked could also enter the Top Ten with over 25,000 sold.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.11 – Midnights / Taylor Swift’s tenth studio album departs the Top Ten for the first time, sinking 10-11 in its 20th charting week, selling 24,000 units (up 4 percent). Midnights became the fastest-selling album of 2022 upon its release (277,000 sold), spent twelve non-consecutive weeks at the top spot, and with 1.72 million copies sold, it ranks as Swift’s third bestselling release, behind only folklore (5.29 million) and evermore (4.77 million). While the album has already outsold 2019’s Lover (1.66 million), and 2021’s Red (Taylor’s Version) (941,000), it has fallen short of those albums tenrues inside the Top Ten. Red remained in the region for its first twenty weeks, while Lover racked up twenty-eight appearances in the top tier. In addition to its impressive accolades mentioned earlier, Midnights also ranks as the year’s bestselling album to date, with 471,000 copies sold.
No.24 – Tracy Chapman / Picking up two spots this week, and selling 9,000 copies, Tracy Chapman’s eponymous debut album has now become the singer’s first to be certified 4 x Platinum for selling over 1.2 million copies. It currently ranks as the 45th bestselling album of all time, just behind Stevie Nicks’s The Other Side of the Mirror (1.27 million).
No.25 – Positions / Ariana Grande’s sixth studio album, which first debuted in November 2020, has now become the singer’s second album, and first since 2018’s Sweetener to spend a total of 100 weeks inside the Top 50. Her two releases in the intermin – 2019’s thank u, next, and 2020’s k bye for now – SWT Live – remained on the ranking for seventy and forty weeks, respectively.
No.32 – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die / Panic! At the Disco’s lone chart-topping album returns to the charts ahead of their Manchester farewell concert, selling 8,000 copies. The album has sold 359,000 units to date, and is their most successful record.
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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