STEVIE NICKS SCOOPS RECORD-TYING SEVENTH CHART-TOPPING ALBUM!
Plus: New Certifications for Taylor Swift & Lana Del Rey; Sinead O’Connor earns two Top Ten hits!
Stevie Nicks ties Taylor Swift for the most number-one albums as Comple Studio Albums & Rarities arrives at No.1, selling 109,000 copies in its first week. It is the 98th album in history to top the L.dK Weekly Top 50!
The boxset marks Nicks’s 12th Top 5, and is both her 13th record to reach the Top 10, and to be certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies.
It also signals a return to glory for Nicks, whose last effort – Live in Concert: the 24 Karat Gold Tour – debuted and peaked at No.6 in late 2020.
The release of the collection coincides with the 42-year anniversary of her 1981 debut solo album, Bella Donna. That album shoots to No.27 with 9,000 copies sold, clocking its record-padding 246th appearance in the Top 50.
Janet Jackson’s janet. slips to No.2 after four weeks in pole position, although it gains by 8 percent to 79,000 sold.
Jackson’s former-chart-topping Rhythm Nation 1814 drops 5-7 with 34,000 sold (up 21 percent).
Taylor Swift’s seventeen-week-ruler folklore lifts 4-3 on sales of 66,000 copies (up 94 percent) following the start of August. folklore records its highest rank in almost two years, having placed at No.2 in mid-August 2021.
With its latest sales haul, the album’s lifetime sales now stand at a staggering 5,727,000 units, making folklore just the 2nd album in history to be certified at least 19 x Platinum! It follows Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! which has sold 6.35 million to be certified 21 x Platinum.
Swift is also down 8-9 with the No.2-peaking Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), moving 26,000 units (up 23 percent).
Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd falls 2-4 after leading the pack for a total of six weeks. The album sold 55,000 copies this week (down 4 percent).
Ocean Blvd has now become Del Rey’s 5th album to be certified 6 x Platinum, denoting sales of over 1.8 million copies. It follows NFR! (21 x Platinum); Lust for Life (Diamond); Chemtrails Over the Country Club (7 x Platinum); and Blue Banisters (6 x Platinum).
Following her passing on Wednesday 26th July, Irish legend Sinead O’Connor scores two hits inside the Top Ten!
Her 1990 record I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got rockets 47-5 with sales surging by 700 percent to 40,000 sold; her 1987 debut The Lion and the Cobra passes its former peak of No.26 as it flies 35-8, riding a sales boost of 314 percent.
The latter record has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies.
O’Connor’s 1994 LP Universal Mother launches at No.12 with 22,000 copies sold.
A pair of chart-topping records make up the remainder of the week’s Top Ten: Jessie Ware’s That! Feels Good! drops 3-6 (36,000 units – even with last week), while Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark tumbles 6-10 (24,000 units – down 11 percent).
Onto Next Week: Janet Jackson’s janet. looks likely to return to the top spot, with expected sales of over 70,000 copies. Stevie Nicks could also make a play for the crown, with her compilation currently expected to sell roughly 60,000 in its second week. Taylor Swift’s folklore boasts similar projections, and also shouldn’t be counted out.
L.dK Weekly Top 50
Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50
No.15 – The Loveliest Time / Carly Rae Jepsen’s latest studio offering opens with 15,000 copies sold. Loveliest is a companion to last year’s No.2-peaking, Platinum-certified hit The Loneliest Time.
No.17 – Private Dancer / Tina Turner’s seminal 1984 record became a posthumous hit for her in May, peaking at No.4. It has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.
No.21 – Spellbound / Paula Abdul’s sophomore studio album has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 units. It peaked at No.12 in July.
No.31 – The Velvet Rope / Janet Jackson’s 1997 record has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies. It peaked at No.13 in July.
No.32 – Hejira / Joni Mitchell’s 1977 ode to the open road is one of her biggest hits, having peaked at No.6 and charting for 56 weeks to date. It has now become her third LP to sell upwards of a million copies, following 1974’s Court and Spark (3.07 million), and 1971’s Blue (2.88 million).
No.34 – 25 / Adele’s third studio album has now become just the 4th album in history to spend a full 4 years (or 208 weeks) inside the Top 50! It joins Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna (246 weeks); Annie Lennox’s Diva (234), and Ariana Grande’s Sweetener (213).
No.38 – Control / Janet Jackson’s breakout hit has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies, after earlier topping out at No.30.
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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