Jessie Ware celebrates a month at No.1 with That! Feels Good!
Plus: Lana Del Rey and Joni Mitchell celebrate new milestones, and Tina Turner debuts!
Jessie Ware scores a fourth consecutive week atop the L.dK Weekly Chart with That! Feels Good!. The album saw an 8 percent sales increase this week, moving 109,000 units.
Good! is the third album to spend at least a month at number-one in 2023, following Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE, and Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel Ocean Blvd – both albums ruled for five weeks each.
Del Rey’s Ocean Blvd maintains its No.2 rank for a fourth straight week, shifting 93,000 copies (up 8 percent). It is now the singer’s sixth album to be certified 4 x Platinum, denoting sales of over 1.2 million units. It follows Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2 x Diamond); Lust for Life (Diamond); Chemtrails Over the Country Club (7 x Platinum); Blue Banisters (6 x Platinum); and Born to Die: the Paradise Edition (5 x Platinum).
Del Rey is also umoved at No.10 with the enduring NFR!, selling 22,000 copies this week (up 4 percent). The LP has now spent a record-extending 147 weeks inside the Top Ten!
Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark steps up 4-3 on sales of 43,000 copies this week (up 11 percent). Spark, which has sold over 2.76 million units to date, has now become the 72nd album in history to chart for an entire year inside the L.dK Weekly Top 50! Even more impressive is the fact that the album has spent this entire time inside the Top Ten. Mitchell also logged a full year in the Top Ten with Blue – her bestselling record to date, on sales of 2.79 million units – which roamed the region for a total of 69 weeks.
Rounding out the Top Five: Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE sinks 3-4 with 42,000 sold (up 3 percent), and Caroline Polachek’s No.2-peaking Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is steady at No.5 with 28,000 sold (down 15 percent).
Rock-legend Tina Turner pays her first visit to the L.dK Weekly Top 50 as Private Dancer premieres at No.6 on sales of 28,000 copies. Turner passed away on Wednesday 24th May, giving her catalogue just one day of sales in the tracking week. Her compilation album Simply the Best debuts at No.37 with 7,000 sold.
Rounding out the Top Ten: Adele’s seventeen-week-leader 30 descends 6-7 (27,000 units – down 3 percent); First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino dips 7-8 (down 12 percent); and Miley Cyrus’s chart-topping Endless Summer Vacation slips 8-9 (23,000 units – down 12 percent).
Onto Next Week: Arlo Parks looks set to secure her first No.1 album with My Soft Machine – the long awaited follow-up to sleeper hit Collapsed in Sunbeams. The album has already racked up over 120,000 in pre-sales alone, and should have no trouble debuting with over 200,000 units. Taylor Swift’s Midnights should also make a return to the Top Five, tracking to sell over 50,000 copies after the release of the ‘Til Dawn edition this week. Tina Turner’s Private Dancer is also tracking to sell upwards of 40,000 units, potentially pushing it up into the Top Five.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.15 – 21 / Adele’s sophomore record has now become the singer’s third effort to exceed sales of 1.2 million copies! It joins her fourth album 30 (4.76 million), and her third record 25 (2.58 million).
No.21 – The Record / The debut album from boygenius climbs to a new peak in its second week, increasing to 11,000 copies sold.
No.29 – Greatest Hits / Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 compilation record moves down two spots this week, moving 8,000 copies. The enduring collection has now sold more than 2.4 million units, becoming just the 18th album to achieve this.
No.35 – Surrender / Maggie Rogers’s sophomore album has now been certified 4 x Platinum for moving over 1.2 million copies since its release.
No.42 – The Fame Monster / Lady Gaga’s sophomore set pounces 49-42 to reach a new peak in its second week, selling a further 6,000 units.
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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