Panic! at the Disco dominate following their farewell tour!
Plus: Miley Cyrus scores her second number-one album with Endless Summer Vacation.
Following their last ever live show in Manchester on Friday 10th, Panic! at the Disco see their entire catalogue surge on the L.dK Weekly Top 50. The charge is led by 2015’s Death of a Bachelor – which topped out at No.9 in 2017 – re-entering at a brand new peak position of No.3, on sales of 64,000 copies (up 1,180 percent from the previous week).
2013’s Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die – Panic!’s lone chart-topping album – surges 32-6 on sales of 56,000 copies (up 600 percent), while Pray for the Wicked returns at No.7 with 43,000 sold (up 975 percent) after peaking at No.2 in 2017.
Last year’s Viva Las Vengeance makes its first appearance in the Top Ten, re-appearing at No.9, selling 35,000 units (up 1,650 percent). The album – now certified Silver for moving over 60,000 copies – debuted and peaked at No.11 in 2022.
Beyond the Top Ten: 2008’s Pretty. Odd. re-enters at No.28 with 10,000 sold after previously reaching No.5; and their No.11-peaking debut from 2005 – A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – jumps back onto the list at No.44 on sales of 7,000 copies.
Overall, Panic! sold a whopping 220,000 albums in just the past week, making them the most successful act of the timeframe.
With the conclusion of their farewell tour this week, Brendon Urie’s solo project goes out on a high. The outfit has sold over a million albums to date, while seven Top Ten hits, four of which reached the Top Five.
Miley Cyrus collects her second number-one album as Endless Summer Vacation opens to sales of 122,000 copies – this number is comprised of 106,000 pure sales and a further 16,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album. The impressive debut makes it the fastest-selling album since Taylor Swift’s Midnights debuted with 277,000 sold in October 2022, while also scoring it the largest sales week since the chart dated 05 December 2022, when Swift’s Midnights moved 131,000 in its sixth week in pole position.
Endless is Cyrus’s second album to hit the top spot, following Plastic Hearts which ruled for two weeks in 2020. Plastic has sold over 2.44 million copies to date, and this week bounces 30-19, selling 15,000 copies.
Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE slips to No.2 after four weeks at the summit, moving 76,000 copies (down 14 percent); Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You descends to No.4 after peaking in the runner-up spot for three weeks, moving 60,000 units (down 19 percent); Paramore’s This is Why rounds out the Top Five, falling from its No.3 peak after two weeks, selling 57,000 units (up 1 percent). Why matches its best sales week, first achieved in its debut frame.
Outside the Top Five: First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino slides 4-8 (38,000 sold – up 3 percent), and Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-ruler Court and Spark caps the Top Ten, tumbling 5-10 (34,000 sold – down 8 percent).
Onto Next Week: Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE could make a return to the No.1 spot, selling over 75,000 copies. A second week at the summit for Miley Cyrus’s Endless Summer Vacation is also not out of the question, with the album currently predicted to sell roughly 70,000 units in its sophomore frame. Indie duo Tommy Le Froy could also be bound for a Top 20 debut with their latest EP rivals, currently tracking sell roughly 15,000 copies in its opening week.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.11 – 30 / Adele’s fourth studio album is certainly one for the history books. It stands as the fastest-selling album of all time (650,000 in its debut week), and holds the records for the fastest album to sell 1 million (three weeks), 2 million (twelve weeks), 3 million (twenty-nine weeks), and 4 million copies (fifty-five weeks). This marks the juggernaut’s first appearance outside of the Top Ten, after sixty-eight weeks in the region, fifty-seven of which were spent inside the Top Five, and seventeen of which were spent at number-one. To date, 30 has moved 4.48 million copies, making it the 3rd bestselling album of the decade, and the 4th bestselling album of all time.
No.17 – This Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-infused LP has now become her sixth album to be certified Platinum for selling in excess of 300,000 copies. Hissing is currently Mitchell’s fifth bestselling album, ranking just behind 1994’s Night Ride Home (335,000).
No.23 – Girl of My Dreams / Fletcher – who supported Panic! on their final tour – pays her first visit to the L.dK Weekly Top 50 with her debut album, selling 12,000 copies.
No.26 – Beyonce / The star’s self-titled album has now sold over 300,000 units, becoming her third album to be certified 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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