Beyonce reclaims No.1 spot for fifth week!
Plus: New certifications for Caroline Polachek & Joni Mitchell; Tommy Le Froy open at No.9!
Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE rebounds 2-1 for a fifth cumulative week in pole position, selling 82,000 copies in the most recent tracking week (up 8 percent). The album has now sold over 600,000 units to date, becoming the star’s second album to achieve multi-platinum status, following the Double-Platinum hit Lemonade.
Miley Cyrus’s Endless Summer Vacation slips to No.2 after becoming her secnd chart-topper last week, selling 62,000 copies in its sophomore frame – down 49 percent.
Caroline Polachek’s newly-Platinum-minted Desire, I Want to Turn Into You rebounds 4-3 following three weeks at the No.2 spot. It sold 60,000 this week, matching last week’s haul.
Paramore’s No.3-peaking This is Why recovers one spot to No.4 on sales of 54,000 copies (down 5 percent).
Panic! at the Disco continue to host multiple albums inside the Top Ten of the L.dK Weekly Top 50. Death of a Bachelor is the front-runner, dropping two spots to No.5, with 37,000 sold (down 42 percent); Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die follows at No.7, down from No.6 (33,000 units – down 41 percent); and Viva Las Vengeance caps the Top Ten, falling one spot from its No.9 peak (29,000 units – down 17 percent).
Outside the Top Five: First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino rebounds 8-6 (34,000 units – down 11 percent), and Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark ascends 10-8 (32,000 units – down 6 percent). The latter album has now been certified 8 x Platinum, denoting sales of over 2.4 million copies, and is Mitchell’s second record to achieve this. It follows Blue which was recently certified 9 x Platinum.
Indie duo Tommy Le Froy score their first Top Ten hit as their EP Rivals opens at No.9, selling 31,000 copies in its first week.
Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? is headed for a hefty debut on the L.dK Weekly Top 50. It has already racked up sales of over 160,000 copies over the weekend – making it the year’s fastest-selling album yet – and could land a debut north of 200,000 units
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.11 – 30 / Adele’s latest record-breaking smash has now added yet another notch to its burgeoning belt. It has now become only the 4th album in history to be certified 15 x Platinum for moving in excess of 4.5 million units. It joins Taylor Swift’s evermore (4.79 million) and folklore (5.32 million), and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (5.93 million).
No.14 – Come Get Your Wife / Elle King’s third studio album debuted at No.1 in January, and spent two weeks at the top spot. Now, it joins her two previous efforts in selling over 300,000 copies to be certified Platinum.
No.41 – Pretty. Odd. / Panic! at the Disco’s sophomore album has now become their latest Gold-certified hit. It joins fellow Gold hits Death of a Bachelor & Pray for the Wicked, and the Platinum record Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die.
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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