Jessie Ware’s That! Feels Good! debuts at No.1 with her largest sales week yet!
Ware bookends the Top Ten, as Glasshouse returns to the region. Plus: new certifications for Lana Del Rey & First Aid Kit!
Jessie Ware scoops her second chart-topping album as That! Feels Good! arrives at the pinnacle of the L.dK Weekly Top 50. It is the 94th album to top the chart!
Good! earns Ware the best sales week of her career so far, debuting with a total of 151,000 copies sold, comprising of 109,000 pure sales and a further 42,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album. It tops the debut of 2020’s chart-topping What’s Your Pleasure? in both pure sales (101,000), and total units (114,000). It also marks the second biggest sales debut of the year to date, behind only Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd which sold 305,000 units in its opening stanza.
In addition to becoming her second number-one album, Good! is Ware’s fourth album to hit the Top Five, and fifth to reach the Top Ten; her debut LP Devotion peaked at No.9, while follow-ups Tough Love and Glasshouse both reached the No.4 position.
Speaking of Glasshouse … that album returns to the Top Ten for the first time in over three years, rising 18-10 on sales of 21,000 copies (up 75 percent), allowing Ware to bookend the Top Ten! Glasshouse has now sold exactly 2.10 million copies, becoming just the 23rd album in history to be certified at least 7 x Platinum!
With the crowing of That! Feels Good!, Ware cements herself as a true enduring veteran of L.dK Weekly. Her five albums have sold in excess of 4.2 million copies, and spent a whopping 328 weeks inside the Top 50!
Down to No.2 this week, after five weeks at the top spot: Lana Del Rey’s Ocean Blvd on sales of 82,000 copies (down 27 percent). The album has now been certified 3 x Platinum for selling over 900,000 copies since its release. It is her seventh album to do so, following Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2 x Diamond); Lust for Life (Diamond); Chemtrails Over the Country Club (7 x Platinum); Blue Banisters (6 x Platinum); Born to Die: the Paradise Edition (5 x Platinum); and Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (3 x Platinum).
Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE falls 2-3 after five weeks in pole position, moving 42,000 units (down 16 percent); Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark sinks 3-4 with 37,000 sold (down 4 percent); and Caroline Polachek’s No.2-peaking Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is a non-mover at No.5, selling 30,000 copies (down 12 percent).
Outside the Top Five: Paramore’s No.3-hit This is Why is steady at No.6 (30,000 sold – on par with last week); Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 slides 4-7 (29,000 units – down 15 percent); and Miley Cyrus’s chart-topping Endless Summer Vaction descends 7-8 (29,000 units – even with last week).
Finally, First Aid Kit’s Palomino falls 8-9 after climbing to No.2 (22,000 units – down 8 percent). The album has now been certified 3 x Platinum, denoting sales of over 900,000 copies.
Onto Next Week: Jessie Ware could nab her first multi-week leader as That! Feels Good! is currently tracking to sell upwards of 80,000 copies in its second week. It will face fierce competition from Lana Del Rey’s Ocean Blvd, with the former chart-topper set to sell over 75,000 units.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.16 – First Two Pages of Frankenstein / The National score their first Top 20 hit as their first album in five years launches with 17,000 copies sold.
No.18 – Hounds of Love / Following the announcement of her upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Kate Bush’s magnum-opus re-enters the Top 20, selling 15,000 units. The album has sold over 1.18 million copies to date. Her follow-up, The Sensual World, which has moved 1.08 million to date, shoots 44-26 with 10,000 sold.
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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