ADELE’S 30 SELLS 1 MILLION COPIES IN RECORD TIME!

Adele scores third week atop Weekly Top 50; Taylor Swift’s evermore goes Diamond; Tracy Chapman debuts at No.4.

For a third successive week, Adele’s 30 triumphs as the most popular album of the moment. The LP debuted at the top spot two weeks ago, selling 650,000 in seven days to become the fastest-selling album of all time.

After selling 206,000 in its second frame, 30 declines by another 18.5%, selling 168,000 copies in its third week on sale. To date, 30 has sold 1,024,000 units!

1 Million In Record Time: By selling more than 1 million units in just three weeks, 30 becomes the fastest album ever to reach the milestone. It topples the previous record held by Lady Gaga’s Chromatica which needed five weeks to sell as many copies.

30 is Adele’s second album to sell a million copies, and to be certified Triple Platinum for sales of over 900,000 copies; it joins 25 which has been certified 6 x Platinum and sold just over 1.9 million units. The latter album repeats at No.6 this week selling 26,000 units (down fourteen percent).

To date, 30 is the seventh album to sell more than 1 million copies during 2021. It joins Taylor Swift’s evermore & folklore; Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club & Norman Fucking Rockwell!; Joni Mitchell’s Blue; and Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts. By comparison, 2020 saw eight albums sell more than a million units, while 2019 produced six such hits!

Updated Accolades:

• 7th bestselling album of 2021
• 22nd bestselling album of the decade
• 43rd bestselling album of all time

With total sales of 217,000 units across her catalogue, Adele ranks as the week’s most popular artist once again!

Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters keeps at No.2 with sales of 55,000 copies, down ten percent from the previous week. Del Rey’s 2019 juggernaut Norman Fucking Rockwell! meanwhile maintains its rank of No.10 (21,000 units – up five percent) as it logs a record-extending 110th week in the Top Ten!

Taylor Swift stays at No.3 with former-number-one Red (Taylor’s Version) selling 48,000 units (down ten percent).

Swift’s evermore retreats 4-5 with sales of 36,000 units (down ten percent) as it celebrates a historic week. Firstly, the album completes a full year on L.dK Weekly, dating to its No.1 debut in December 2020. evermore has never left the Top Ten. It is also the singer’s third album to spend more than a year on the charts:

• Seventy-two weeks – folklore
• Fifty-seven weeks – Lover
• Fifty-two weeks – evermore

To date, the wintery-folk set has shifted a whopping 3,022,000 units, becoming only the fourth album ever released to be certified Diamond! It joins an exclusive club, populated by Del Rey’s NFR!, Swift’s own folklore and Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST.

With folklore (4.1 million) and evermore (3.0 million), Swift is the only artist to boast multiple Diamond-certified hits. Lana Del Rey may join her over the next year, as 2017’s Lust for Life has sold 2.89 million so far.

evermore needed just fifty-two weeks to earn its Diamond certification, racing ahead of Gaga & Cooper’s Star which took sixty-three weeks to sell as many copies. It falls just short of NFR!‘s forty-seven weeks, while all albums trail Swift’s own folklore which achieved Diamond status after just thirty-four weeks!

• Thirty-four weeks – folklore
• Forty-seven weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
• Fifty-two weeks – evermore
• Sixty-three weeks – A Star is Born – OST

With only four albums having been certified Diamond for selling over three million copies, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition seems primed to become the fifth before the end of the year, having sold 2.98 million units to date. It would achieve the distinction in its eighty-ninth week on sale.

folklore – Swift’s biggest smash, and one of the biggest albums in history – drops to No.12 on this week’s chart update, marking the first occassion where the album has ranked outside the Top Ten. It departs the region after seventy-one consecutive weeks, dating to its No.1 debut in August 2020.

American signer-songwriter Tracy Chapman flies onto the Weekly Top 50 at No.4 with her self-titled debut album (1988) – the LP opens with sales of 42,000 copies.

Three of the biggest & most enduring hits of 2021 round out the Top Ten: Joni Mitchell’s Blue holds at No.7 (24,000 units – down eight percent); Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition is a non-mover at No.8 (22,000 units – even with last week); and Katie Melua’s Album No. 8 tumbles 5-9 (22,000 units – down thirty percent).

Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 should easily earn upwards of 125,000 units, and will likely claim a fourth straight week at No.1.

Notable Moves on L.dK Weekly

No.25 – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks’s third solo studio album descends 22-25 as it logs a 116th week inside the Top 50, tying Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours as the eighth longest-charting album of all time. Rock is Nicks’s second-longest-charting hit behind her 1981 debut Bella Donna – 169 weeks.

1. 169 weeks – Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks
2. 149 weeks – Diva / Annie Lennox
3. 139 weeks – Sweetener / Ariana Grande
4. 132 weeks – Glasshouse / Jessie Ware
5. 127 weeks – The Whole Story / Kate Bush
6. 122 weeks – 25 / Adele
7. 118 weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey
8. 116 weeks – Rumours / Fleetwood Mac & Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks
9. 112 weeks – A Star is Born – OST / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
10. 106 weeks – She’s so Unusual / Cyndi Lauper & Greatest Hits / Fleetwood Mac

L.dK Weekly Top 50

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Industry Sales

Industry sales for the week stand at 971,000 units, dipping 7.3% from the previous week’s figure of 1.047 million units. Compared to the same week last year (when 829,000 albums were sold), consumption is up by 17.1%!

971,000 is the third-largest sales week of the year, behind the two previous weeks which saw sales of 1.43 million and 1.04 million respectively.

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

JANET JACKSON’S SELF-TITLED SET RETURNS TO NO.1 FOR A FIFTH WEEK!

Plus: Taylor Swift‘s folklore climbs to No.2; Sinead O’Connor’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got goes Silver!

Janet Jackson’s janet. rises 2-1 to score a fifth non-consecutive week atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50, moving 72,000 copies (down 8 percent). The album has now sold over half a million copies, becoming Jackson’s first album to do so.

Jackson’s two-week-leader Rhythm Nation 1814 steps up 7-6 on sales of 31,000 copies (down 8 percent).

Taylor Swift’s folklore elevates 3-2, although with an 8 percent dip in sales to 61,000 sold. The album previously spent a whopping seventeen weeks at the chart summit.

Swift’s No.2-peaking Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) reverses course 9-8 with 25,000 sold (down 3 percent).

Lana Del Rey’s chart-topping Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd rebounds 4-3 on sales of 52,000 copies (down 7 percent). The album has now sold 1.901 million units since its release, surpassing Blue Banisters to become Del Rey’s 4th bestselling album to date!

Stevie Nicks’s Complete Studio Albums & Rarities drops to No.4 following its No.1 debut last week, shifting a further 49,000 copies (down 55 percent).

Jessie Ware’s four-week-ruler That! Feels Good! recovers 6-5 with 36,000 copies sold (on par with last week).

Outside the Top Five: Sinead O’Connor’s newly-Silver-certified I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got regresses to No.7 from its No.5 highpoint (27,000 sold – down 32 percent); Beyonce’s chart-topping RENAISSANCE jumps 11-9 (21,000 units – down 9 percent); and Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark holds at No.10 after twelve weeks in pole position (20,000 units – down 9 percent).

Onto Next Week: Janet Jackson’s janet. is aiming for a sixth cumulative week atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

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 98^th album in history to top the L.dK Weekly Top 50!  

The boxset marks Nicks’s 12^th Top 5, and is both her 13^th 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 246^th 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 5^th 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 26^th 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 4^th 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

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

JANET JACKSON CELEBRATES A MONTH AT NUMBER-ONE!

Plus: New Certifications for Jackson & Jessie Ware; Adele’s 30 becomes 3rd bestselling album ever!

Janet Jackson’s self-titled album holds atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50 for a fourth consecutive week, selling a further 73,000 units (down 11 percent).

Jackson’s chart-topping Rhythm Nation 1814 is steady at No.5 once again on sales of 28,000 copies (down 9 percent). It has now become the singer’s second Platinum-certified hit!

Lana Del Rey’s six-week-leader Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd remains at No.2, selling 57,000 copies (down 7 percent).

Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! re-enters the Top Ten (rising 11-9), with 21,000 sold (up 5 percent). NFR! which previously spent a record-breaking twenty-five weeks at number-one, has now logged a record-extending 153 weeks inside the Top Ten!

Taylor Swift’s folklore returns to the Top 5 for the first time since September 2022, moving 7-4 on sales of 34,000 copies (up 21 percent). The juggernaut, which previously commanded the Top 50 for a total of seventeen weeks, has now spent a whopping 60 weeks inside the Top 5 – the 3^rd most among all albums.

Swift is also present inside the Top Ten at No.8 with Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) which debuted and peaked at No.2 two weeks ago. The re-release sold 21,000 this week (down 8 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-ruler Court and Spark slides 4-6 (27,000 units – down 11 percent), while Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE dips 6-7 (26,000 units – down 8 percent) after five weeks at the summit.

Adele’s 30 rounds out the Top Ten, steady at No.10 (20,000 sold – down 5 percent). The mega-hit set the record as the fastest-selling album of all time upon its release in November 2021, and swiftly surpassed sales of 1 million, 2 million, 3 million, and 4 million copies in record time! This week, 30 surpasses Taylor Swift’s evermore (4.970 million) to become the 3^rd bestselling album of all time.

30 has sold a whopping 4.974 million copies since its release, and lags behind only Swift’s folklore (5.661 million), and Del Rey’s NFR! (6.336 million).

Onto Next Week: Stevie Nicks could score her 7^th No.1 hit with her newest boxset, Complete Studio Albums & Rarities. The compilation is currently gunning to sell upwards of 75,000 copies in its opening frame. Her last release – Live in Concert: the 24 Karat Gold Tour – was released in 2020, and debuted and peaked at No.6, eventually being certified Gold. Carly Rae Jepsen could also start inside the Top 5 with her latest offering – The Loveliest Time, a companion piece to last year’s No.2-peaking The Loneliest Time.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.35 – The Lion and the Cobra / Sinead o’ Connor’s debut album re-enters on sales of 7,000 copies following her death on Wednesday 26^th July. The album previously debuted and peaked at No.26 in late-2021. Her sophomore set I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got launches at No.47 with 5,000 sold.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

JANET JACKSON’S JANET. COMMANDS L.DK WEEKLY TOP 50 FOR THIRD WEEK!

Plus: New Certifications for Joni Mitchell & Taylor Swift!

Janet Jackson leads the Top 50 for a third consecutive week with her 1993 self-titled record. The title sold a further 82,000 copies in the latest tracking week – down 10 percent.

janet. has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies. It is Jackson’s first album to achieve this!

Jackson’s chart-topping Rhythm Nation 1814 holds steady at No.5 on sales of 29,000 copies (down 9 percent).

Lana Del Rey’s six-week-leader Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd moves 3-2, selling 60,000 copies (down 2 percent).

Jessie Ware’s four-week-ruler That! Feels Good! lifts one spot to No.3, moving 39,000 copies (down 9 percent).

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark – which previously ruled the Top 50 for a whopping twelve weeks – ascends 6-4, moving 30,000 copies (down 7 percent).

Court has now been certified Diamond for selling more than 3 million copies, having sold 3,022,000 to date!

It is the 5^th quickest album to cross the Diamond milestone, passing Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born (63 weeks), but falling short of Taylor Swift’s evermore (52 weeks).

Outside the Top Five: Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE rebounds 7-6 (28,000 units – down 10 percent) after five weeks at the summit.

Adele’s 30 rounds out the Top Ten, stationary at No.10, after spending seventeen weeks at number-one (22,000 units – on par with last week).

Taylor Swift’s seventeen-week-ruler folklore improves 8-7 (28,000 sold – up 16 percent), reaching its highest rank since the chart dated September 5^th 2022 when it placed at No.4. folklore has now clocked up a whopping 156 weeks – or three years – inside the Top 50! It is one of only 12 albums to achieve this.

Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) tumbles 2-8 in its sophomore week (27,000 units – down 64 percent). The album has now been certified Gold for moving over 100,000 copies.

Tina Turner’s No.4-peaking Private Dancer is steady at No.9 (22,000 units – down 4 percent); and Adele’s 30 caps the Top Ten, steady at No.10 (20,000 units – down 8 percent).

Onto Next Week: Janet Jackson could be bound for a fourth straight week in the lead with janet. looking to sell over 70,000 copies.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.11 – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey’s 2019 magnum-opus extends its record as the highest-certified album of all time! With a mighty 6.31 million copies sold, it has been certified 21 x Platinum to date.

No.21 – Born in the USA / Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 landmark album races 50-21 to reach a new peak inside the Top 50, selling 10,000 copies!

No.37 – All For You / Janet Jackson’s 2001 electro-pop hit has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies to date.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

JANET JACKSON’S JANET. LOGS SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER-ONE!

Plus: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) debuts at No.2!

janet. scores a second consecutive week atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50, tying Rhythm Nation 1814 as Jackson’s longest-running chart-topper to date. The album sold 91,000 copies this week, marking a 23 percent increase from the previous week.

The aforementioned Rhythm Nation 1814 descends from No.4 to No.5 on sales of 32,000 copies (down 37 percent).

Taylor Swift vaults onto the Top 50 with Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), boasting first-week sales of 75,000 copies after being forecast to sell over 100,000 in its opening week. It earns Swift her ninth consecutive Top 5 hit, and sixth released this decade!

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) has already been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies – it is Swift’s ninth album to do so.

Despite its impressive debut, Speak marks somewhat of an under-performance for Swift, ending her now-broken streak of seven chart-topping albums since the inception of L.dK Weekly. She previously debuted atop the charts with reputation (2017), Lover (2019), folklore (2020), evermore (2020), Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2021), Red (Taylor’s Version) (2021), and Midnights (2022).

It also represents her lowest ever first sales week, falling below Fearless which opened with 89,000 in April 2021.

Swift’s chart-topping folklore meanwhile rises 9-8 on sales of 24,000 copies (up 4 percent).

Despite the relative underperformance of the newly re-recorded Speak Now, Swift’s catalogue makes huge gains inside the Top 50: Red (Taylor’s Version) re-enters at No.14 with 19,000 sold; Fearless (Taylor’s Version) at No.15 with 18,000 sold; evermore surges 27-18 with 15,000 sold; and Lover rockets 40-22 to reach its highest rank since the Summer of 2020, moving 12,000 copies.

Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd slips 2-3, leaving the Top 2 for the first time after 15 weeks. The album sold a further 61,000 copies this week (down 8 percent).

Jessie Ware’s That! Feels Good! falls 3-4 with 43,000 copies sold (down 7 percent), after spending four weeks in pole position.

Outside the Top Five: Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark rebounds 7-6 (32,000 sold – up 14 percent); Beyonce’s five-week-ruler RENAISSANCE dives 5-7 (31,000 units – even with last week); and Tina Tuner’s No.4-peaking Private Dancer steps down 8-9 (23,000 units – down 4 percent).

Adele’s 30 rounds out the Top Ten, stationary at No.10, after spending seventeen weeks at number-one (22,000 units – on par with last week).

Onto Next Week: Janet Jackson’s janet. looks set for a third week at number-one with over 70,000 sold. Misterwives could debut inside the Top Ten with their newest release – Nosebleeds.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.11 ­– Spellbound / Paula Abdul’s 1991 sophomore album debuts with sales of 21,000 copies thanks to the success of its lead-off single ‘Rush Rush’. It is Abdul’s first foray into the Top 20.

No.13 – My Soft Machine / Arlo Parks’s sophomore album slides from No.6 to No.13, departing the Top 10 after spending its first six weeks in the region. Machine previously spent two weeks at number-one.

No.20 – Bloom / Troye Sivan’s sophomore album roars 46-20 on sales of 13,000 copies alongside the release of new single ‘Rush’. Bloom is the longest-charting album ever by a male solo artist, and has sold over 1.15 million copies.

No.23 – Blue Neighbourhood / Troye Sivan’s debut album slips 22-23, selling 12,000 copies. It has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 units, becoming Sivan’s third release to do so.

No.49 – Born in the USA / Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1984 LP charts for the first time on sales of 5,000 copies.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

JANET JACKSON REPLACES HERSELF ATOP THE TOP 50!

As Jackson’s self-titled set ascends to the throne, Taylor Swift’s folklore re-enters Top Ten!

Janet Jackson’s 1993 self-titled record blasts 12-1, selling 74,000 copies (up 311 percent), becoming the 97^th album in the chart’s history, and earning the singer her second consecutive chart-topping album. It also makes Jackson joins Taylor Swift & Fleetwood Mac as the only artists to ever replace themselves atop the Weekly Top 50.

janet. has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies.

The R&B piece topples two-week-leader Rhythm Nation 1814, which slides to No.4 on sales of 44,000 copies (down 41 percent).

Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd holds at No.2 after a total of six weeks at number-one, shifting 67,000 copies (up 5 percent).

Jessie Ware’s four-week-ruler That! Feels Good! is unmoved at No.3 with 46,000 copies sold (down 2 percent).

Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE rounds out the Top Five, steady at No.5 on sales of 31,000 copies (down 3 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Arlo Parks’s two-week-leader My Soft Machine slides 4-6 (29,000 units – down 24 percent); Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark steps down 6-7 after twelve weeks in pole position (28,000 units – down 3 percent); and Tina Turner’s No.4-peaking Private Dancer retreats 7-8 (24,000 units – down 3 percent).

Outside the Top 5: Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-chart-topper Court and Spark is a non-mover at No.6 (29,000 units – down 3 percent); Tina Turner’s No.4-peaking Private Dancer rebounds 8-7 (25,000 units – up 8 percent); and Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 slips 7-8 (24,000 units – down 7 percent).

Taylor Swift’s chart-topping folklore celebrates its first Top Ten showing since January as it shoots 13-9 on sales of 23,000 copies (up 35 percent). It breaks its tie with Swift’s own evermore to become the 2^nd longest-running Top Ten album ever, with 92 weeks in the region – only Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (152 weeks), tops this.

Capping the Top Ten, Adele’s 30 dips 8-10 (22,000 units – down 8 percent). The album previously spent a whopping seventeen weeks at the top spot.

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) looks set to claim the number-one spot with sales of over 100,000 copies. It could mark Swift’s record-padding eighth number-one album.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.16 – The Velvet Rope / Janet Jackson’s 1997 hip-hop infused album has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies to date. It previously peaked at No.13 in June.

No.22 – Blue Neighbourhood / Troye Sivan’s debut studio album re-enters the Weekly Top 50 for the first time since 2017 following the announcement of new single – ‘RUSH’, coming July 14^th. 2018’s chart-topping Bloom returns at No.36 this week, marking its 111^th appearance.

No.30 – Control / Janet Jackson’s third studio album climbs two spots for a new peak this week.

No.32 – Hejira / Joni Mitchell’s 1976 album – her ode to the open road – has now become her third release to spend a full year on the Top 50, following Blue (123 weeks), and Court and Spark (58). Hejira peaked at No.6 in 2022 and has since sold 970,000 copies.

No.33 – Ultraviolence / Lana Del Rey’s sophomore album has now sold over 600,000 units, meaning that her entire discography has now been certified Multi-Platinum!

No.46 – Midnights / Taylor Swift’s late-2022 smash hit is the first album released since Adele’s 30 to sell over 2 million copies! It is Swift’s third LP to reach this milestone, meaning she ties with Lana Del Rey for the most multi-million-selling albums.  Midnights currently stands as the 27^th bestselling album of all time.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

JANET JACKSON REPLACES HERSELF ATOP THE TOP 50!

As Jackson’s self-titled set ascends to the throne, Taylor Swift’s folklore re-enters Top Ten!

Janet Jackson’s 1993 self-titled record blasts 12-1, selling 74,000 copies (up 311 percent), becoming the 97^th album in the chart’s history, and earning the singer her second consecutive chart-topping album. It also makes Jackson joins Taylor Swift & Fleetwood Mac as the only artists to ever replace themselves atop the Weekly Top 50.

janet. has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies.

The R&B piece topples two-week-leader Rhythm Nation 1814, which slides to No.4 on sales of 44,000 copies (down 41 percent).

Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd holds at No.2 after a total of six weeks at number-one, shifting 67,000 copies (up 5 percent).

Jessie Ware’s four-week-ruler That! Feels Good! is unmoved at No.3 with 46,000 copies sold (down 2 percent).

Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE rounds out the Top Five, steady at No.5 on sales of 31,000 copies (down 3 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Arlo Parks’s two-week-leader My Soft Machine slides 4-6 (29,000 units – down 24 percent); Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark steps down 6-7 after twelve weeks in pole position (28,000 units – down 3 percent); and Tina Turner’s No.4-peaking Private Dancer retreats 7-8 (24,000 units – down 3 percent).

Outside the Top 5: Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-chart-topper Court and Spark is a non-mover at No.6 (29,000 units – down 3 percent); Tina Turner’s No.4-peaking Private Dancer rebounds 8-7 (25,000 units – up 8 percent); and Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 slips 7-8 (24,000 units – down 7 percent).

Taylor Swift’s chart-topping folklore celebrates its first Top Ten showing since January as it shoots 13-9 on sales of 23,000 copies (up 35 percent). It breaks its tie with Swift’s own evermore to become the 2^nd longest-running Top Ten album ever, with 92 weeks in the region – only Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (152 weeks), tops this.

Capping the Top Ten, Adele’s 30 dips 8-10 (22,000 units – down 8 percent). The album previously spent a whopping seventeen weeks at the top spot.

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) looks set to claim the number-one spot with sales of over 100,000 copies. It could mark Swift’s record-padding eighth number-one album.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.16 – The Velvet Rope / Janet Jackson’s 1997 hip-hop infused album has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies to date. It previously peaked at No.13 in June.

No.22 – Blue Neighbourhood / Troye Sivan’s debut studio album re-enters the Weekly Top 50 for the first time since 2017 following the announcement of new single – ‘RUSH’, coming July 14^th. 2018’s chart-topping Bloom returns at No.36 this week, marking its 111^th appearance.

No.30 – Control / Janet Jackson’s third studio album climbs two spots for a new peak this week.

No.32 – Hejira / Joni Mitchell’s 1976 album – her ode to the open road – has now become her third release to spend a full year on the Top 50, following Blue (123 weeks), and Court and Spark (58). Hejira peaked at No.6 in 2022 and has since sold 970,000 copies.

No.33 – Ultraviolence / Lana Del Rey’s sophomore album has now sold over 600,000 units, meaning that her entire discography has now been certified Multi-Platinum!

No.46 – Midnights / Taylor Swift’s late-2022 smash hit is the first album released since Adele’s 30 to sell over 2 million copies! It is Swift’s third LP to reach this milestone, meaning she ties with Lana Del Rey for the most multi-million-selling albums.  Midnights currently stands as the 27^th bestselling album of all time.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

JANET JACKSON’S RHYTHM NATION 1814 THUNDERS TO NO.1!

Jackson unseats Lana Del Rey and scores her first chart-topper in the process.

Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 roars 5-1 in just its third week on the L.dK Weekly Top 50, becoming the 96th album to top the chart. It sold 70,000 copies in the latest tracking week, surging by 100 percent from the previous period.

1814 also becomes the singer’s first certified album, having been awarded Gold status for selling over 100,000 units.

Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd falls to No.2 after a total of six weeks in pole position, selling 63,000 copies (down 15 percent). Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! is a non-mover at No.10 with 20,000 sold (even with last week) as it logs a record-padding 150th week inside the Top Ten!

Jessie Ware’s That! Feels Good! holds at No.3 with 48,000 sold (down 18 percent) after three weeks at the summit; Arlo Parks’s chart-topping My Soft Machine drops 2-4 on sales of 43,000 copies (down 31 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark holds at No.6 (30,000 units – down 9 percent); Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 stays at No.7 (26,000 units – up 3 percent); Tina Turner’s No.4-peaking Private Dancer sticks at No.8 (23,000 units – down 8 percent); and Caroline Polachek’s No.2-peaking Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is unmoved at No.9 (21,000 sold – on par with last week).

Onto Next Week: Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 looks likely to score a second week at the top spot with over 60,000 units sold.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.13 – The Velvet Rope / Janet Jackson’s 1997 studio album soars to a new peak this week, earning the icon her third Top 20 hit in as many weeks. Her 1993 self-titled set continues at its No.12 peak, while 2001’s All For You rises 22-21 for a new peak position.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).

LANA DEL REY’S DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD BECOMES LONGEST-RUNNING NUMBER-ONE OF 2023!

Plus: New certifications for Arlo Parks, Jessie Ware & Beyonce, and Janet Jackson rockets into Top Five!

Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd reclaims the No.1 spot on the L.dK Weekly Top 50 after waiting at No.2 for six weeks, following its initial five-week reign. The album sold 74,000 this week (up 6 percent), and has now sold over 1.4 million copies to date.

Ocean Blvd has spent a total of six weeks at the chart summit so far, becoming the longest-running chart-topping album of 2023, passing Beyonce’s five-week-ruler RENAISSANCE.

Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! meanwhile continues to hold the No.10 spot, shifting 20,000 units (on par with last week). It has now spent a record-extending 150 weeks inside the Top Ten!

Arlo Parks’s My Soft Machine sinks to No.2 after leading for its first two weeks, shifting a further 62,000 copies (down 14 percent). The album has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 units, becoming the singer’s second to do so after her debut album Collapsed in Sunbeams which is currently certified Double Platinum with close to 900,000 copies sold.

Jessie Ware’s That! Feels Good! keeps at No.3 on sales of 59,000 units (down 10 percent). The four-week-leader has now become Ware’s fourth album to be certified Multi-Platinum, having sold over 600,000 units to date. It joins Glasshouse (7 x Platinum); What’s Your Pleasure? (3 x Platinum); and Tough Love (2 x Platinum). Her debut LP Devotion has been certified Gold.

Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE is steady at No.4 with 41,000 sold (down 4 percent). The album has now sold over 1.2 million copies, becoming Beyonce’s first effort to be certified at least 4 x Platinum!

A newcomer to the Top Five … Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 hurtles 29-5 with 35,000 copies sold – up 288 percent. It marks Jackson’s first trip to the Top Five. Her 1993 R&B self-titled set scorches 30-12 with 18,000 sold (up 100 percent).

Jackson appears three more times inside the Top Fifty: her 2001 album All For You re-enters at new high of No.22 (11,000 sold) after originally peaking at No.49; 1997’s The Velvet Rope opens at No.29 (9,000 sold), and her third studio album Control improves 50-49 with 6,000 sold.

Outside the Top Five: Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark descends 5-6 (34,000 sold – even with last week); Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 sticks at No.7 (25,000 units – down 14 percent); Tina Turner’s Private Dancer dips 6-8 after topping out at No.4 (25,000 units – down 24 percent), and Caroline Polachek’s No.2-peaking Desire, I Want to Turn Into You stays at No.9 (21,000 sold – even with last week).

Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey’s Ocean Blvd could earn a seventh week at the chart summit with sales of over 60,000 copies.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.16 – The Wild Heart / Stevie Nicks’s sophomore studio album re-enters the Weekly Top 50, selling 15,000 copies in the wake of its 40th anniversary. Wild is has earned its spot amongst the greatest albums of all time – having peaked at No.2, charted for 101 weeks to date, and selling 1.34 million copies.

No.42 – Paranoia, Angels, True Love / Christine and the Queens make their chart debut with their latest record, selling 7,000 copies in its debut frame.

No.44 – The Sensual World / Kate Bush’s 1989 masterpiece has now spent a full two years (104 weeks) inside the Top 50! It is just the 27th album in history to achieve this.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

Certifications: Silver (60,000); Gold (100,000); Platinum (300,000); Multi-Platinum (600,000 etc.); Diamond (3,000,000).