ADELE COMMANDS TOP FIFTY FOR FOURTH CONSECUTIVE WEEK!

30 stays at No.1; Lana Del Rey logs three Top Ten entries; holiday music hits the charts!

Adele spends a fourth consecutive week lodged at No.1 with her newest blockbuster: 30. The album debuted at No.1 in the final week of November with 650,000 sold, becoming the fastest-selling album of all time, and later crossed the 1 million sales mark in just its third frame – also a record!

This week, 30 dips by 18.5% (the same decline as the previous week) to sell a further 137,000 copies, easily keeping it miles ahead of its competitors. To date, 30 has shifted 1.161 million units; it currently ranks as Adele’s second-bestselling album behind 25: 1.928 million. The latter record falls 6-8 on this week’s rundown, selling 17,000 copies (down thirty-five percent).

With four weeks at the number-one spot, 30 is the longest-chart-topping album since the Weekly Top 50 resumed in October, following a Contemporary / Catalogue system that began in January.

Overall, it ties with Stevie Nicks’s 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault & Ariana Grande’s thank u, next as the twelfth longest-running number one hit of all time.

Updated Accolades:

• 6th bestselling album of 2021
• 16th bestselling album of the decade
• 40th bestselling album of all time

Adele’s catalogue sales totalled 163,000 this week, making her the week’s popular artist for a fourth successive term.

Lana Del Rey takes three spots in the Top Ten this week: Blue Banisters leads the pack as it maintains its rank at No.2, selling 49,000 copies (down ten percent) after spending three weeks at number-one earlier this year. Norman Fucking Rockwell! ascends 10-6 with 19,000 copies sold (down ten percent) as it logs a record-adding 111th week inside the Top Ten! NFR! previously topped the L.dK Weekly Charts for a record twenty-five weeks!

Finally, her No.2-peaking debut album Born to Die: the Paradise Edition soars 19-10 as it nears its ten-year anniversary. The LP drew sales of 17,000 copies this week (up thirty percent).

Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) holds at No.3 with 42,000 units (down twelve percent) as her evermore ascends 5-4 with 37,000 sold (up three percent). Both albums previously spent one and thirteen weeks at the top spot, respectively.

Joni Mitchell’s twenty-one-week-ruler Blue caps the Top Five as it ascends 7-5 selling 25,000 units (up four percent).

Two chart-topping hits round out the Top Ten: Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts swings 11-7 (19,000 units – down five percent) and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition descends 7-9 (17,000 units – down twenty-three percent).

Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 should easily earn another 125,000 units, earning it a fifth week in pole position!

Notable Moves in the Top Fifty!

No.12 – A Christmas Cornucopia / Annie Lennox’s seasonal collection carols spent a single week on the charts in December 2020 at No.32. At the time, it became Lennox’s only effort to miss the Top Ten, but this week re-enters at a new highpoint of No.12 on weekly sales of 16,000 units! It is the highest-ranking seasonal release and highest re-entry of the week.

No.16 – 50 Words for Snow / Kate Bush’s snow-themed set rockets 47-16 (moving 14,000 units – up 133 percent) nabbing the Greatest Gainer Award. The album peaked at No.12 in early 2021, been certified Silver, and has now spent three months on the list.

No.21 – Wrapped in Red / Kelly Clarkson’s Christmas album debuts at No.21 selling 12,000 in its first week. It marks the singer’s third hit on the charts following 2017’s Meaning of Life (No.1) and Kelly Clarkson: Greatest Hits (No.2).

No.23 – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks’s third studio album – originally released in 1985 – ascends 25-23 with sales of 12,000 units. It tallies a 117th week inside the Top 50, making it the eighth longest-charting album of all time, breaking it out of a tie with Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (116 weeks).

1. 170 weeks – Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks
2. 150 weeks – Diva / Annie Lennox
3. 140 weeks – Sweetener / Ariana Grande
4. 133 weeks – Glasshouse / Jessie Ware
5. 128 weeks – The Whole Story / Kate Bush
6. 123 weeks – 25 / Adele
7. 120 weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey
8. 117 weeks – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks
9. 116 weeks – Rumours / Fleetwood Mac
10. 112 weeks – A Star is Born – OST / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

No.25 – Positions / As it descends 21-25 – selling 11,000 units – it notches a 52nd charting week, marking an entire year on the charts. Grande has now achieved this feat with three seperate albums: Sweetener (140 weeks); thank u, next (seventy weeks) and now Positions.

Industry Sales

Industry sales for the week stand at 938,000 units, dipping 3.4% from the previous week’s figure of 971,000 units. Compared to the same week last year (when 939,000 albums were sold), consumption is down by 0.2%!

938,000 is the fifth-largest sales week of the year, behind the four previous weeks which saw consumption figures of 968,000 (22 November); 1.435 million (29 November); 1.047 million (06 December) and 971,000 (13 December).

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

ADELE REMAINS DOMINANT NO.1 ON WEEKLY TOP 50!

Adele continues to dominate the Weekly Top 50 as 30 pulls in massive numbers in its second week on sale. After debuting with a record-breaking 650,000 units last week, the pressure was on to see if the album could avoid a massive decline in sales.

30 sold over 200,000 in its sophomore frame. Plus: Katie Melua’s Album No. 8 reaches its highest rank since November 2020!

The LP dropped 68.4% – a huge fall, but to expected after such a large debut – to sell 206,000 units its second frame. It has sold 856,000 to date in only fourteen days!

By comparison, Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life declined by 83.9% in its sophomore week, tumbling from a then-record-breaking 639,000 units, to 103,000 sales the following week.

With total sales now over 850,000, 30 is expected to break the record for the shortest amount of time needed to sell 1 million albums. The title is currently jointly held by Lust for Life and Taylor Swift’s evermore as both albums needed just six weeks to achive the impressive feat.

Updated Accolades:

• 8th bestselling album of 2021
• 28th bestselling album of the decade
• 52nd bestselling album of all time

More Adele: 25 is Adele’s highest-ranking album from her impressive catalogue, falling 4-6 this week on sales of 30,000 copies (down thirty five percent). 21 meanwhile drops 7-12 with 19,000 sold, and 19 dives 7-19 moving 13,000 units.

Total sales of 268,000 units this week, Adele ranks as the most popular artist of the week, maintaining a healthy lead over her competition.

Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters stays at No.2 after spending three weeks at the top, selling 61,000 copies (down twenty percent); Del Rey also climbs 11-10 with Norman Fucking Rockwell! (20,000 units – up five percent) as the album celebrates a record-padding 110th week in the Top Ten.

Taylor Swift takes out three spots in the week’s Top Ten: Red (Taylor’s Version) keeps at No.3 with sales of 53,000 copies (down twenty-three percent) after debuting at No.1 two weeks ago. Meanwhile, former chart-toppers evermore and folklore, advance 6-4 (40,000 units – up twenty-five percent) and repeat at No.9 (22,000 units – on par with last week) respectively.

Katie Melua finishes off this week’s Top Five as her 2020 record, Album No. 8 blasts 27-5 with sales of 31,000 units (up 244 percent). It benefits greatly from the release of an acoustic version, and this week soars to its highest rank since the chart dated 02 November 2020, when it fell to No.4 after debuting at a No.2 peak the week before.

No. 8 has sold over 530,000 copies since its release, and has become a chart mainstay: this week marks its 59th appearance on the ranking.

Beyond the Top Five, a pair of former number-one records round out the Top Ten: Joni Mitchell ticks 8-7 with Blue (26,000 units – up thirteen percent) and Dua Lipa bolts 15-8 with Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition (22,000 units – up forty-six percent).

Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 could sell another 150,000 units in its pursuit of a third week ontop. If it does, the album will passes 1 million copies sold, and make history as the fastest to do so! Tracy Chapman could also be bound for a Top Ten debut as her self-titled debut album is tracking to sell around 30,000 units following a retrospective release.

Notable Moves in the Top Fifty

No.12 – 21 / Adele’s sophomore record departs the Top Ten this week, falling from No.7 to No.12 with sales of 19,000 copies. The album – which has lived on the charts for a total of sixty-two weeks – has now sold over 600,000 copies, becoming Adele’s third record to be certified Multi-Platinum!

No.15 – Crystal Visions – the Very Best of … / Stevie Nicks’s 2007 compilation album is her biggest-selling release, and this week reaches a new milestone. It becomes just the tenth album in history to be certified 7 x Platinum for selling over 2.1 million units!

No.16 – Ocean to Ocean / Tori Amos’s latest album has proved to be a hit. It debuted at No.3 upon its release, and now sits at No.16 in its fifth week. So far, the LP has sold 114,000 copies and been certified Gold.

No.20 – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power / Halsey’s fourth studio album quickly became her biggest hit ever following its release in late August. It debuted at No.1 with almost 200,000 sales in its first week, and spent a whopping eight consecutive weeks at the summit. To date, Power has sold 903,000 copies and been certified Triple Platinum.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Industry Sales

Industry sales for the week stand at 1,047,000 units, dipping 27.1% from the previous week’s record-breaking haul of 1.435 million. Compared to the same week last year (when 955,000 albums were sold), consumption is up by 9.6%!

1.047 million marks the second-largest weekly consumption figure of the year, trailing only the previous week’s showing.

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

ADELE POSTS HISTORIC DEBUT WITH 30.

30 becomes Adele’s second No.1 album; 25, 21 & 19 also in Top Ten!

Adele’s long-awaited 30 – her first album in six years – naturally shoots straight to No.1 on L.dK Weekly. It arrives as Adele’s second chart-topping set – following 21 – and fourth consecutive Top Five – after 25 reached No.2 and 19 peaked at No.3.

With as much anticipation as this record had, it was bound for a hefty start, and was expected to claim the crown as the fastest-selling album of the year: it has gone above and beyond, and become the fastest-selling album of all time!

By The Numbers: 30 had sold a whopping 183,000 copies before it had even been released, thanks to pre-sales derived from single “Easy On Me”. Even if 30 hadn’t sold a single copy this week, it would have been the second fastest-selling album of 2021 on pre-sales alone!

On its first day, it sold 149,000 copies, bringing its total to 332,000 including pre-sales; instantly becoming the fastest-selling hit of the year and earning it the fourth biggest debut in history. It also made 30 the fastest-selling album since Lady Gaga’s Chromatica opened to sales of 473,000 units in June 2020.

By its second day, 30 had sold 385,000 units and surpassed Lorde’s Melodrama (345,000) to become the third fastest-selling album ever.

After selling 442,000 through its third day, it reached sales of 488,000 on its fourth; becoming the second fastest-selling album ever, behind only Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life (639,000).

By its sixth day, 30 had sold 614,000 copies and been certified Double Platinum.

Sales for the week would reach a record-breaking total of 650,000 units on the final tracking day; breaking the previous record by 11,000 units. Lust for Life had stood as the fastest-selling album of all time since its debut in August 2017, and for years that record had seemed insurmountable.

In addition: 30 shifted 467,000 units in its first week (excluding pre-sales) marking the biggest pure sales debut of all time.

The updated list of fastest-selling albums is as follows:

1. 30 – Adele – 650,000
2. Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey – 639,000
3. Chromatica – Lady Gaga – 473,000
4. Melodrama – Lorde – 345,000
5. Lover – Taylor Swift – 310,000
6. reputation – Taylor Swift – 309,000
7. Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa – 289,000
8. Blue Banisters – Lana Del Rey – 267,000
9. folklore – Taylor Swift – 259,000
10. Plastic Hearts – Miley Cyrus – 251,000

Accolades:

• Fastest-selling album of all time – 650,000 units
• 15th bestselling album of 2021
• 40th bestselling album of the decade
• 65th bestselling album of all time

30 has already landed as Adele’s second bestselling album, behind only 25!

1. 25 – 1.85 million
2. 30 – 650,000
3. 21 – 594,000
4. 19 – 378,000

Adele’s three other studio albums all rank inside this week’s Top Ten: 25 moves 3-4 with 42,000 units; 21 dips 4-5 with 36,000 sold; and 19 falls 5-7 with 25,000 sold.

Overall, Adele’s catalogue sold a mind-boggling 753,000 copies – making her the week’s top artist by a mile. To date, the singer has now sold a massive 3.47 million albums.

Lana Del Rey stays at No.2 this week with Blue Banisters, selling 73,000 copies this week (down twenty-six percent). The album previously spent its first three weeks at the top spot.

Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) slides to No.3 after debuting at No.1 last week; it sold 68,000 units in its sophomore frame (down thirty-eight percent).

Swift also takes out two more spots in the Top Ten: evermore keeps at No.6 (32,000 units – on par with last week) and folklore steps down 8-9 (22,000 units – down five percent).

The former – evermore – further solidifies itself as one of the largest hits in L.dK chart history this week, as it becomes the 4th bestselling album of all time! Having sold 2.94 million to date, it passes Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (2.93 million).

The list of bestselling albums of all time is as follows:

1. 4.62 million – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey
2. 4.13 million – folklore / Taylor Swift
3. 3.55 million – A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
4. 2.94 million – evermore / Taylor Swift
5. 2.93 million – Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa
6. 2.80 million – Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey
7. 2.51 million – Diva / Annie Lennox
8. 2.36 million – The Collection / Alanis Morissette
9. 2.10 million – Sweetener / Ariana Grande
10. 2.08 million – Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks / Stevie Nicks

Rounding out the Top Ten: Joni Mitchell’s Blue slips 7-8 (24,000 units – down four percent) and Tori Amos’s Ocean to Ocean moves 9-10 (21,000 copies – down nine percent).

Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 is currently on track to sell another 150,000 copies in its second week on sale, which would easily earn the record a second term on top. Katie Melua’s Album No. 8 might also make large gains after the release of the acoustic version.

Notable Moves in the Top 50

No.11 – Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey’s mangum-opus ranks at No.11 this week as it notches a 117th appearance on L.dK Weekly. It surpasses Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (116 weeks) to become the seventh longest-charting album of all time.

No.16 – Greatest Hits / Just a week after celebrating a full two years on the chart, Fleetwood Mac’s compilation album has now become the twenty-fifth album in history to be certified 5 x Platinum, denoting sales of 1.5 million units! It is the second release from the band to achieve this, following the 6 x Platinum smash Rumours.

L.dK Weekly 50

L.dK Top Artists

Industry Sales

Thanks to Adele’s record-breaking debut, the music industry as a whole reaches historic highs! Totals for the week stand at a whopping 1,435,000 units, surging 48.2% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 790,000 albums were sold), consumption is up by 81.6%!

1.435 million marks the largest weekly consumption figure of the year, surpassing the week dated 08 June 2020 when 1.182 million albums were sold; it tops that figure by a hefty 21.4%!

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

TAYLOR SWIFT COLLECTS RECORD SIXTH NUMBER-ONE ALBUM!

Red (Taylor’s Version) opens in pole position; Lana Del Rey reaches a new milestone with Blue Banisters; Adele surges ahead of 30 release.

Taylor Swift claims the No.1 album on this week’s L.dK Weekly Top 50 as Red (Taylor’s Version) launches with an impressive haul of 108,000 units, slightly above its projected debut of 100,000 copies.

Red is the sixth consecutive album from Taylor Swift to reach the No.1 spot on L.dK Weekly. It follows reputation (one week in 2017); Lover (one week in 2019); folklore (seventeen weeks in 2020-2021); evermore (thirteen weeks in 2020-2021) and Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (one week in 2021).

With opening week sales of 108,000 copies, Red earns a Gold certification in its first seven days on sale, becoming Swift’s sixth album to sell over 100,000 units.

1. 13 x Platinum – folklore
2. 9 x Platinum – evermore
3. 5 x Platinum – Lover
4. 2 x Platinum – reputation
5. 2 x Platinum – Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
6. Gold – Red (Taylor’s Version)

Swift appears twice again in this week’s Top Ten: evermore tumbles 2-6 with sales of 31,000 copies (down twelve percent) as folklore falls 5-8 selling 24,000 units (down four percent).

Outside the Top Ten: Fearless (Taylor’s Version) lunges 50-32 on sales of 9,000 copies; and Lover returns at No.45 with 6,000 units.

Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters falls to No.2 after spending its first three weeks at the summit. The album moved a further 95,000 copies this week, sliding by thirty-three percent from the previous week’s take of 141,000 units. To date, Blue has sold a whopping 625,000 units, being certified 2 x Platinum after just a month on sale. It is Del Rey’s sixth album to attain at least Double Platinum status!

1. 15 x Platinum – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
2. 9 x Platinum – Lust for Life
3. 5 x Platinum – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
4. 3 x Platinum – Born to Die: the Paradise Edition
5. 3 x Platinum – Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
6. 2 x Platinum – Blue Banisters
7. Platinum – Honeymoon
8. Platinum – Ultraviolence

Also from Del Rey: NFR! – the longest-running number-one album of all time (twenty-five weeks) – drops 8-10 with 22,000 sold (up twenty-two percent). NFR also logs a record-padding 109th week inside the Top Ten!

In total, the historic juggernaut has spent 116 frames on L.dK Weekly, tying it with Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours as the seventh longest-charting album in history.

1. 166 weeks – Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks
2. 146 weeks – Diva / Annie Lennox
3. 137 weeks – Sweetener / Ariana Grande
4. 129 weeks – Glasshouse / Jessie Ware
5. 124 weeks – The Whole Story / Kate Bush
6. 119 weeks – 25 / Adele
7. 116 weeks – Rumours / Fleetwood Mac & Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey
8. 113 weeks – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks
9. 110 weeks – A Star is Born – OST / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
10. 105 weeks – She’s so Unusual / Cyndi Lauper

Adele rounds out the Top Five this week as her three studio albums surge ahead of the highly anticipated release of 30 – more on that later.

25 leads the pack as it pushes 4-3 on sales of 55,000 units (up 103 percent); 21 leaps 7-4 selling 44,000 copies (up 144 percent); 19 blasts 11-5 with 31,000 sold (up 106 percent).

To date, Adele has sold an impressive 2.72 million albums across her discography, despite never releasing an album since the inception of L.dK Weekly; of that figure, over 1.8 million are from sales of 25 alone.

Outside the Top Five: Joni Mitchell’s Blue drops 3-7 (25,000 units – down eleven percent) and Tori Amos’s Ocean to Ocean descends 6-9 (23,000 units – on par with last week).

Onto Next Week: Adele’s 30 looks set for one of the biggest debuts of all time, and could finally be the album to challenge Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life as the fastest-selling record ever; that album started with 639,000 units in August 2017. Since its release on Friday 19, 30 has already been certified Platinum and has surpassed sales of 420,000 copies. Just three days in, it has already become the third fastest-selling album ever.

It will undoubtedly become the fastest-selling album of the year – perhaps with over 500,000 first-week sales – but it remains to be seen whether it will go the extra mile and topple Lust for Life’s record.

Notable Moves on the L.dK Weekly Top 50

No.11 – How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? / Big Red Machine saw their second studio album debut and peak at No.5 over the Summer this year, and it has now spent three months on the listing. This time around, How Long rockets 34-11 – becoming the Greatest Gainer – on sales of 18,000 copies. It owes much of its upward movement to the revived success of track “Renegade” which features this week’s No.1 Artist – Taylor Swift.

No.17 – Greatest Hits / Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 round-up of their biggest hits dives 12-17, selling 15,000 copies as it notches a 104th week on L.dK Weekly. It becomes just the thirteenth album ever to spend a full two years on the charts!

No.48 – Sweetener I Ariana Grande’s most successful studio album moves 42-48 (5,000 sold) in its 137th week on the chart. One of the biggest hits in chart history, Sweetener has just become the ninth album to be certified 7 x Platinum, denoting sales exceeding 2.1 million units.

L.dK WEEKLY TOP 50

L.dK WEEKLY TOP ARTISTS

Industry Sales

Industry sales stand at 968,000 units for the week, rising by 29.2% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 905,000 albums were sold), consumption is up 6.9%!

968,000 marks the largest weekly consumption figure of the year, surpassing the week dated 31 May when 919,000 albums were sold. It’s the biggest weekly haul since August 2020.

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

LANA DEL REY STILL AT NO.1!

Blue Banisters reigns for a third week; Taylor Swift & Adele double up in Top Ten!

Lana Del Rey tightens her grip on the No.1 spot this week as Blue Banisters sells another 141,000 copies (swelling by fifteen percent from last week’s take of 122,000 units).

To date, the blockbuster has sold 530,000 units – it has already become the __th bestselling album of 2021 to date.

By notching a third week at the top with Blue, Del Rey becomes the first artist in history to spend forty-seven weeks atop the L.dK Weekly Charts. Her list of chart-topping records is as follows:

• Twenty-four weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
• Eleven weeks – Lust for Life
• Nine weeks – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
• Three weeks – Blue Banisters

Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! meanwhile sinks 7-8 on sales of 18,000 units (down five percent) in its record-padding 108th week in the Top Ten!

Taylor Swift’s evermore remains at No.2 with 35,000 copies sold (down three percent); Swift also falls 4-5 with seventeen-week ruler folklore, moving 25,000 units (up eight percent).

Joni Mitchell’s Blue jumps 5-3, increasing by twenty-seven percent to 28,000 copies sold.

Adele’s 25 returns to the Top Five as it reounds 6-4. The juggernaut sold 27,000 units this week (up forty-two percent) amidst growing anticipation for the singer’s upcoming fourth album 30 – due Nov. 19.

In-fact, the British star’s entire catalogue rises on this week’s list: 21 re-enters the Top Ten at No.7 (up from No.12) selling 18,000 copies (up twenty-eight percent); and 19 soars 21-11 moving 15,000 units (up fifty percent).

Outside the Top Five: Tori Amos’s Ocean to Ocean descends 3-6 in its second week (23,000 units – down twenty-six percent) while Miley Cyrus’s two-week-leader Plastic Hearts retreats 8-9 (18,000 units – even with last week).

Capping the Top Ten: Kate Bush’s The Whole Story bumps 11-10 (16,000 units – up fourteen percent) to nab a fifty-seventh frame in the Top Ten.

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey are set to go head-to-head for the crown next week with Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) projected to move upwards of 100,000 units in its debut week. Banisters should pull in a similar figure, barring an unexpected sales decline.

Notable Moves on the Weekly Top 50

No.26 – The Lion and the Cobra / The debut album from Irish singer-songwriter Sinead o’Connor earns the highest debut of the week as it opens at No.26 with first-week sales of 10,000 copies.

No.49 – Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey’s record-breaking 2017 album returns to the Top 50 at No.49 this week selling 5,000 copies. With this re-entry it notches a 104th week on the chart, becoming just the twelfth album in history to spend two full years on L.dK Weekly! Del Rey is just the second artist to achieve this with two albums, having also done so with Norman Fucking Rockwell! (115 weeks); Stevie Nicks also boasts two albums to have spent at least two years on the list: Bella Donna (165 weeks) and Rock a Little (112 weeks).

L.dK Top 50

L.dK Top Artists

Industry Sales

Industry sales stand at 749,000 units for the week, rising by 8.8% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 771,000 albums were sold), consumption is down 2.9%!

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

LANA DEL REY STAYS AT NO.1 WITH BLUE BANISTERS!

Del Rey extends record for most weeks at number-one; Tori Amos debuts at No.3 with Ocean to Ocean.

Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters spends a second week atop L.dK Weekly as it moves 122,000 units in its sophomore frame, marking a fifty-five percent decline from last week’s debut of 267,000 units.

After just two weeks on sale, Blue has already sold 389,000 copies and been certified Platinum! It is Del Rey’s seventh album to be achieve this; her full list of certifications is as follows:

• 15 x Platinum – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
• 9 x Platinum – Lust for Life
• 5 x Platinum – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
• 3 x Platinum – Born to Die: the Paradise Edition & Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
• Platinum – Honeymoon; Blue Banisters & Ultraviolence
• Gold – The Unreleased Collection

As Blue tops the weekly tally for a second term, it marks Del Rey’s forty-fifth week atop the list across her four chart-topping efforts. This further extends her record for the most weeks at number-one among all artists.

• Twenty-four weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
• Eleven weeks – Lust for Life
• Nine weeks – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
• Two weeks – Blue Banisters

NFR! retreats 6-7 this week on sales of 19,000 copies (down five percent) as it nabs a record-padding 106th week in the Top Ten.

Taylor Swift’s evermore paces at No.2 this week, selling 36,000 copies – lifting by twelve percent from last week’s haul. Sister-album folklore moves up 5-4 with 23,000 sold – a gain of nine percent.

Tori Amos shoots onto the Weekly Top 50 at No.3 with her newly released album Ocean to Ocean. The set bows with 31,000 combined units (30,000 pure sales; 1,000 pre-sales).

It earns Amos her third consecutive Top Five hit, following 1992’s Little Earthquakes (No.2) and 1994’s Under the Pink (No.5).

Joni Mitchell rounds out the Top Five this week as Blue descends 4-5, moving 22,000 units (down five percent).

Outside the Top Five: Adele’s 25 drops 3-6 (19,000 units – down twenty-seven percent) and Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts hops 9-8 (18,000 units – up twelve percent).

Amy Winehouse’s legendary set Back to Black roars back onto the ranking at No.9 (15,000 sold) in celebration of its 15-year anniversary this week. The jazz-infused LP has sold over 1.33 million copies and spent over ninety weeks on the list.

Fleetwood Mac cap the Top Ten this week: Greatest Hits flies 13-10 with 15,000 units (up twenty-five percent).

Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters looks bound for a third week at the top of the charts; likely to move around 100,000 units.

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.21 – 19 / Adele’s debut album tumbles to No.21 after placing at No.10 last week; selling 10,000 units this week. The introductory album has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 units; it joins fellow Platinum smash 21 and the Multi-Platinum juggernaut 25!

No.49 – She’s so Unusual / The 1983 debut album from Cyndi Lauper has now become one of the rare albums to spend a full two years on L.dK Weekly! It becomes the 11th album in history to achieve this feat, and currently trails Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST (109 weeks) as the 11th longest-charting album of all time.

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Industry Sales

Industry sales stand at 688,000 units for the week, sliding by 21.7% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 857,000 albums were sold), consumption is down 20%!

Note

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

HALSEY TOPS CONTEMPORARY ALBUMS FOR THIRD WEEK WITH IF I CAN’T HAVE LOVE, I WANT POWER!

Plus: Kacey Musgraves debuts at No.3.

Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power dominates the race among Contemporary Albums for a third successive week, selling 118,000 units this week (down nineteen percent).

Power ties Manic as Halsey’s longest-running chart-topping album to date.

Lorde’s Solar Power bullets at No.2 – selling 52,000 copies (up one percent) – three weeks after it debuted at the top spot.

Country star Kacey Musgraves launches at No.3 with her latest collection Star Crossed. The LP bows with combined sales of 38,000 copies; the figure comprises of 35,000 in first-week sales and a further 3,000 pre-sales derived from singles.

Taylor Swift holds at No.4 with seventeen-week-leader folklore, moving 30,000 copies (down ten percent), as it notches a 60th consecutive week inside the Top Ten.

Billie Eilish’s Happier than Ever drops 3-5 on sales of 28,000 units (down twenty percent); the album spent two weeks at the top spot earlier this year.

Taylor Swift remains at No.6 with former-number-one album evermore (28,000 units – down four percent).

Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club rises 8-7 (27,000 units – up twenty-two percent) after spending a whopping nine weeks at number-one earlier this year.

Capping the Top Ten: Jade Bird’s chart-topping Different Kinds of Light dives 5-8 (26,000 units – down nineteen percent); Big Red Machine’s How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? sinks 7-9 after peaking at No.5 (21,000 units – down sixteen percent); and Miley Cyrus’s former-chart-topping Plastic Hearts slips 9-10 (16,000 units – down eleven percent).

Onto Next Week: Halsey could earn a fourth week in the penthouse with If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.

Notable Moves on Top Contemporary Albums!

No.11 – Young Heart / Birdy’s fourth LP is one of this year’s biggest contemporary hits, having peaked at No.1 for two weeks and spent over four months inside the Top Ten. This week, as the set slides to No.11, it becomes the singer’s first effort to be certified 2 x Platinum for selling over 600,000 units. Currently, Young is the eighth bestselling album of the year among its Contemporary rivals.

TOP CONTEMPORARY ALBUMS

LANA DEL REY TALLIES RECORD TWENTY-THIRD WEEK ATOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART!

Plus: Del Rey places a further four albums inside the Top Ten!

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! tallies a record-extending twenty-third week atop the Catalogue Albums Chart, shifting 28,000 units (up twenty-seven percent).

NFR! also adds a record-padding sixty-ninth week in the Top Five, and becomes the first album in history to spend 100 weeks inside the Top Ten!

More Del Rey: As her newest studio album approaches (Blue Bannisters is penned for an October 22 release date), Del Rey places a total of five albums inside this week’s Top Ten!

Honeymoon surges 19-5 on sales of 15,000 copies (up 152 percent) after peaking at No.4 earlier this year; eleven-week leader Lust for Life blasts 20-6 also moving 15,000 copies (up 152 percent); the No.2-peaking Born to Die: the Paradise Edition pushes 8-7 with 14,000 sold (up forty percent); and the No.8-peaking Ultraviolence re-enters at No.10 selling 12,000 units.

Back in the Top Five: Joni Mitchell’s chart-topping Blue repeats at No.2 with 20,000 units (up four percent); Kate Bush’s The Whole Story returns to its highpoint of No.3 (up from No.4) moving 16,000 units (on par with last week); and Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks falls 3-4 with 16,000 units (down six percent) after a total of seven weeks at the top of the charts.

A pair of number-ones fill in the last spots outside the Top Five: Annie Lennox slides 5-8 with Diva (12,000 units – even with last week); and Fleetwood Mac sink 6-9 with Greatest Hits (12,000 units – even with last week).

Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey could dominate once again with her resurgent catalogue; NFR! again looks to be the front-runner for the number-one spot.

Notable Moves on Top Catalogue Albums!

No.11 – Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks’s solo debut album is among the biggest hits in L.dK Weekly history, and is the longest-charting record ever released. Now, just a week after becoming the first LP to spend a whole three years on the tally, it becomes Nicks’s second album to be certified 6 x Platinum for selling more than 1.8 million copies! Bella Donna is now positioned as the sixteenth bestselling album of all time, behind Annie Lennox’s Medusa at No.15 with 1.91 million sales.

TOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS

Industry Sales

Contemporary Albums recorded sales of 491,000 units this week (up 0.6%) while Catalogue Albums generated sales of 295,000 units (up 3.5%). Contemporary accounted for 62.5% of all sales this week; versus 37.5% for Catalogue.

Total industry sales stand at 786,000 units for the week, rising by 1.6% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 679,000 albums were sold), consumption is up 15.7%!

Note

This chart reflects my own personal music consumption; 1 song = 1,000 units. Top Contemporary Albums measures the performance of albums released within the past 18 months; Top Catalogue Albums ranks the performance of albums released prior to the past 18 months.

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

HALSEY COMMANDS CONTEMPORARY ALBUMS FOR SECOND WEEK!

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If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power and Big Red Machine’s How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? earn new certifications!

Halsey tops the Contemporary Albums Chart for a second consecutive week with If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. The album sold a further 146,000 copies in its second frame, dropping twenty-four percent from the previous week when it debuted with sales of 193,000 units.

To date, Power has sold a hefty 339,000 copies, and has been certified Platinum (denoting sales of over 300,000 units). It is Halsey’s third record to achieve this feat, following 2017’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom and 2020’s Manic.

A quartet of former-chart-topping albums follows in the Top Five: Lorde’s Solar Power holds at No.2 in its third week, moving 50,000 units (down two percent); Billie Eilish’s Happier than Ever rebounds 4-3 with 35,000 sold (down nineteen percent); Taylor Swift’s folklore swings 6-4 selling 33,000 units (down nine percent); and Jade Bird’s Different Kinds of Light slides 3-5 on sales of 32,000 copies (down twenty-nine percent).

Taylor Swift’s number-one hit evermore improves 7-6 (29,000 units – down seventeen percent).

Falling to No.7 after debuting at No.5 last week is How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? – the sophomore album from indie-duo Big Red Machine. The set sold 24,000 copies this week (down thirty-six percent). After just two weeks, the indie-record has now sold over 60,000 copies and been certified Silver.

A trio of number-one smashes round out the Top Ten: Lana Del Rey pushes 9-8 with Chemtrails Over the Country Club (20,000 units – up eleven percent); Miley Cyrus descends 8-9 with Plastic Hearts (18,000 units – even with last week); and Birdy dips 9-10 with Young Heart (14,000 units – down eight percent).

Onto Next Week: Halsey looks bound for a third week in the No.1 spot, as Power is tracking to sell a further 100,000 units. Kacey Musgraves is also set for a Top Five start with Star-Crossed, possibly with over 30,000 units.

TOP CONTEMPORARY ALBUMS

LANA DEL REY CONTINUES RECORD-BREAKING REIGN!

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Plus: Del Rey and Stevie Nicks double up in Top Ten; Bella Donna makes history!

Norman Fucking Rockwell! logs a record-extending twenty-second week at No.1 on the Catalogue Albums Chart. The album sold a further 24,000 units (down four percent) in the most recent period.

This week, NFR! logs a record-padding sixty-third week in the Top Five and ninety-ninth week in the Top Ten.

Del Rey’s Born to Die: the Paradise Edition meanwhile returns to the Top Ten as it flies 14-8 on sales of 10,000 copies (up forty-two percent).

Joni Mitchell ascends 4-2 with Blue, selling 18,000 copies (down five percent).

Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks holds at No.3 with 17,000 units (down twelve percent) as her debut album Bella Donna lifts 11-9 on sales of 9,000 units (on par with last week).

As Bella Donna ranks at No.9 this week, it notches a 156th appearance on L.dK Weekly – it becomes the first album ever released to spend a whopping three full years on the list!

The list of longest-charting albums ever is as follows:

1. 156 weeks – Bella Donna , Stevie Nicks
2. 136 weeks – Diva , Annie Lennox
3. 129 weeks – Sweetener , Ariana Grande
4. 120 weeks – Glasshouse , Jessie Ware
5. 116 weeks – Rumours , Fleetwood Mac
6. 114 weeks – The Whole Story , Kate Bush
7. 112 weeks – 25 , Adele
8. 108 weeks – A Star is Born – OST , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
9. 106 weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! , Lana Del Rey
10. 105 weeks – Rock a Little , Stevie Nicks

Kate Bush’s The Whole Story ticks 5-4 after peaking at No.3, selling 16,000 copies (up fourteen percent).

Capping the Top Five: Annie Lennox’s Diva shifts 6-5 with 12,000 sold (up twenty percent).

A pair of number-one albums rank just outside the Top Five: Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits steps up 7-6 (12,000 units – up nine percent); and Halsey’s Manic dives 2-7 (10,000 units – down fifty-nine percent).

Alanis Morissette’s The Collection anchors the Top Ten, holding at No.10: 8,000 sold (even with last week).

Onto Next Week: As the hype grows for her upcoming album, Lana Del Rey is set dominate the Catalogue Chart in the coming week; with NFR! leading the way.

Notable Moves on Top Catalogue Albums!

No.25 – Bad Animals / HEART first visited the Top Ten with this 1987 hit back in 2017; while the set never climbed higher than No.6, it proved to be a chart mainstay, now clocking its 89th turn on L.dK Weekly. As of this week, Animals has been certified Double Platinum for selling more than 600,000 units!

TOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS

Industry Sales

Contemporary Albums recorded sales of 488,000 units this week (down 17.6%) while Catalogue Albums generated sales of 285,000 units (down 8.7%). Contemporary accounted for 63.1% of all sales this week; versus 36.9% for Catalogue.

Total industry sales stand at 773,000 units for the week, decreasing by 14.5% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 739,000 albums were sold), consumption is up 4.6%!

Note

This chart reflects my own personal music consumption; 1 song = 1,000 units. Top Contemporary Albums measures the performance of albums released within the past 18 months; Top Catalogue Albums ranks the performance of albums released prior to the past 18 months.

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

HALSEY SCOOPS FASTEST-SELLING ALBUM OF 2021!

If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power debuts as a dominant number-one; Big Red Machine start at No.5 with How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?

Halsey’s newest record – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power – smashes onto the Contemporary Albums Chart at No.1, earning the star her second chart-topping record, and the fastest-selling album of the year so far!

With first-week sales of 193,000 units, Power surpasses Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club which previously held the title of the year’s fastest-selling hit, shifting 160,000 in its debut frame (29 March).

It also marks a personal best for Halsey, topping the debut week of her previous release, Manic (114,000 units – January 2020).

Power‘s impressive debut additionally earns it a Gold certification after just a week!

The album is Halsey’s first release since 2020’s Manic which debuted at No.1 on the chart dated 27 January 2020. The album became the 34th most successful record of the year and has since sold over 570,000 copies.

Overall, Power is Halsey’s second chart-topper (after Manic); and fourth Top Five hit following 2015’s BADLANDS (No.4) and 2017’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (No.2).

Last week’s No.1 album – Lorde’s Solar Power – dips to No.2 in its second week out of the gate, shifting a further 51,000 copies – dropping forty-one percent from the previous week. Solar has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 units, becoming Lorde’s third album to achieve this.

Jade Bird’s Different Kinds of Light steps down 2-3 in its third week, on sales of 44,000 units (down fourteen percent) after launching at No.1 two weeks ago.

Happier than Ever – Billie Eilish’s two-week chart-topper – likewise falls 3-4, although it remains steady on sales of 43,000 copies. Now with total sales of 300,000 units, Happier has been certified Platinum, becoming Eilish’s third album to achieve this.

Big Red Machine score their first Top Five hit this week as How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? premieres at No.5. The LP bows with combined sales of 37,000 units – 17,000 stemming from single pre-sales.

Two former chart-toppers from Taylor Swift follow: folklore slips 5-6 (36,000 units – up twenty-eight percent) and evermore drops 4-7 (35,000 units – up twenty-nine percent).

A trio of number-one hits round out the Top Ten: Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts steps down 7-8 (19,000 units – up five percent); Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club slides 6-9 (16,000 units – down twenty-eight percent); and Birdy’s Young Heart descends 8-10 (15,000 units – on par with last week).

Onto Next Week: Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power looks set to sell another 100,000 copies to retain its crown.

Notable Moves on Top Contemporary Albums

No.24 – Fetch the Bolt Cutters / Fiona Apple’s enduring alternative hit was the 14th biggest hit of 2020, and has now surpassed a million copies sold after seventy-two weeks on sale! Overall, it is the 41st album to sell as many units.

TOP CONTEMPORARY ALBUMS

LANA DEL REY‘S NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL! REGAINS TITLE AS LONGEST-RUNNING NUMBER-ONE EVER!

Plus: Halsey scores three Top Ten entries on this week’s Catalogue Chart!

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! rises 3-1 to nab a record-breaking twenty-first week atop the L.dK Weekly Charts.

Following its two-year anniversary, the album surged by thirty-eight percent to 25,000 copies sold. To date, NFR! has sold a whopping 4.37 million units – it is the bestselling album of all time – and spent a record sixty-seven weeks in the Top Five and ninety-eight weeks in the Top Ten.

Now with twenty-one weeks spent atop the charts, NFR! has regained its title as the longest-running chart-topping LP in history; it surpasses Joni Mitchell’s Blue which ruled for twenty weeks.

The longest-running number-one albums ever are as follows:

1. Twenty-one weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! , Lana Del Rey
2. Twenty weeks – Blue , Joni Mitchell
3. Seventeen weeks – folklore , Taylor Swift
4. Thirteen weeks – evermore , Taylor Swift
5. Twelve weeks – A Star is Born – OST , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

Halsey Dominates: Three albums from the American star appear in this week’s Top Ten on the Catalogue Albums Chart.

Manic zooms back onto the tally at No.2 selling 24,000 copies this week. Meanwhile Hopeless Fountain Kingdom & BADLANDS return back-to-back at No.8 and No.9, shifting 11,000 and 10,000 copies respectively.

Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks falls 1-3 selling 20,000 units (down five percent). Joni Mitchell’s Blue drops 2-4 selling 19,000 copies (on par with last week).

Rounding out the Top Five: Kate Bush holds at No.5 with the No.3-peaking The Whole Story (15,000 units – even with last week).

Outside the Top Five: Annie Lennox’s chart-topping Diva springs 8-6 (12,000 units – up twenty percent); Fleetwood Mac’s former number-one Greatest Hits keeps at No.7 (11,000 units – down eight percent).

Capping the Top Ten: Alanis Morissette pushes 11-10 with her No.2-peaking The Collection (9,000 units – even with last week).

Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! could be bound for a twenty-second week at the summit, with over 20,000 copies sold.

Notable Moves on Top Catalogue Albums

No.19 – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks’s third studio album is among her most successful hits on L.dK Weekly; it has sold over 1.2 million copies and been a mainstay on the list since 2017. Now – as it falls 13-19 selling 7,000 units – it becomes the tenth album in history to spend a whole two years (104 weeks) on L.dK Weekly!

TOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS

Industry Sales

Contemporary Albums recorded sales of 592,000 units this week (up 46.1%) while Catalogue Albums generated sales of 312,000 units (up 8.7%). Contemporary accounted for 65.5% of all sales this week; versus 34.5% for Catalogue.

Total industry sales stand at 904,000 units for the week, increasing by 30.6% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 774,000 albums were sold), consumption is up 16.7%!

Note

This chart reflects my own personal music consumption; 1 song = 1,000 units. Top Contemporary Albums measures the performance of albums released within the past 18 months; Top Catalogue Albums ranks the performance of albums released prior to the past 18 months.

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

LORDE‘S SOLAR POWER SHINES ATOP CONTEMPORARY CHART!

Lorde scoops her second chart-topper; Jade Bird earns new certifications!

Lorde nabs her second No.1 album on L.dK Weekly, as Solar Power scorches to a chart-topping debut with combined sales of 86,000 copies. It nabs the fourth-largest launch of the year, behind Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club (29 March – 160,000 units); Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR (31 May – 111,000) and Billie Eilish’s Happier than Ever (09 August – 94,000).

Solar is Lorde’s first studio release since 2017’s Melodrama which topped the Weekly Top 50 for a then-record-breaking five weeks in Summer of that year. The album became the 3rd biggest record of 2019 and has sold almost 1.7 million units to date.

Overall, Solar is the star’s third Top-Five hit; her 2013 debut Pure Heroine reached a highpoint of No.2 earlier this year, and has since sold over 100,000 units.

Of Solar’s healthy first-week sales figure, 68,000 stem from first-week sales, while a further 18,000 units are pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album.

Jade Bird’s Different Kinds of Light steps down to No.2 after debuting at the top spot. The album sold a further 51,000 units in its second frame, dropping twenty-two percent from its opening term.

Different has now been certified Gold for selling more than 100,000 copies since its release; it is Bird’s second release to be certified Gold, following her self-titled debut.

Billie Eilish sinks 2-3 with Happier than Ever, two weeks after topping the Contemporary Chart for its first two terms. The LP sold 43,000 units this week (down eighteen percent).

Two former No.1 discs follow from Taylor Swift: evermore falls 3-4 with 28,000 sold (down seven percent) and folklore slips 4-5 with 27,000 copies (down seven percent).

Outside the Top Five, five former chart-topping smashes make up the Top Ten: Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club drops 5-6 (22,000 units – down ten percent); Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts dips 6-7 (18,000 units – on par with last week); Birdy’s Young Heart sinks 7-8 (15,000 units – up seven percent); Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia: Moonlight Edition descends 8-9 (12,000 units – down eight percent); and Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) dives 9-10 (10,000 units – down eighteen percent).

Onto Next Week: Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power could challenge for the largest debut of the year; it is currently looking to sell between 140,000 and 160,000 units in its opening frame. Big Red Machine are also gunning for a Top Five start with How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?

TOP CONTEMPORARY ALBUMS

STEVIE NICKS CROWNS CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART FOR SEVENTH WEEK!

Plus: Lorde nabs two entries in Top Ten!

Stevie Nicks crowns the Catalogue Albums Chart for a seventh non-consecutive week with her best-of set Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks. The collection sold a further 22,000 copies this week (up four percent).

Joni Mitchell’s Blue keeps at No.3 with sales of 20,000 copies (on par with last week) and has now spent six months inside the Top Five of the list.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! remains at No.3 selling 18,000 units (down six percent). The album logs a record-extending 66th week in the Top Five and 97th week in the Top Ten. To date, NFR! has spent a whopping 104 weeks (two full years) on L.dK Weekly!

NFR! joins seven other albums in an exclusive group of releases that have spent a full two years on the charts:

1. 154 weeks – Bella Donna , Stevie Nicks
2. 134 weeks – Diva , Annie Lennox
3. 128 weeks – Sweetener , Ariana Grande
4. 119 weeks – Glasshouse , Jessie Ware
5. 116 weeks – Greatest Hits , Fleetwood Mac
6. 112 weeks – 25 , Adele & The Whole Story , Kate Bush
7. 108 weeks – A Star is Born – OST , Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
8. 104 weeks – Norman Fucking Rockwell! , Lana Del Rey

Lorde re-enters at No.4 with the No.2-peaking Pure Heroine; her 2017 follow-up chart-topping Melodrama meanwhile returns at No.6. Boosted by the release of Lorde’s new Solar Power, the pair of records sold 17,000 and 13,000 copies respectively.

Kate Bush anchors this week’s Top Five with The Whole Story (down 4-5) selling 15,000 copies (up seven percent).

Outside the Top Five: Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits backtracks 5-7 (12,000 units – down eight percent); Annie Lennox’s Diva springs 10-8 (10,000 units – up eleven percent); Jade Bird’s self-titled record descends 8-9 (9,000 units – down ten percent); and Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna elevates 11-10 (9,000 units – even with last week).

Onto Next Week: Halsey could score multiple entries inside the Top Ten alongside the launch of her latest album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.

Notable Moves on Top Catalogue Albums

No.13 – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks’s third solo studio album descends 12-13 (selling 8,000 copies) in its 103rd appearance on L.dK Weekly. After peaking at No.2 in 2017, Rock has cemented itself as one of the biggest albums ever, and as of this week has sold more than 1.2 million copies; It is one of only thirty-three albums to have been certified Quadruple Platinum!

No.23 – The Wild Heart / Stevie Nicks’s second solo record falls 19-23 this week (moving 6,000 units) in its ninety-first charting week. The set has now sold 1.2 million copies and is Nicks’s fourth record to sell as many units: following Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks (1.88 million units); Bella Donna (1.77 million); and Rock a Little (1.20 million).

TOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS

Industry Sales

Contemporary Albums recorded sales of 405,000 units this week (up 12.5%) while Catalogue Albums generated sales of 287,000 units (down 2.8%). Contemporary accounted for 58.5% of all sales this week; versus 41.5% for Catalogue.

Total industry sales stand at 692,000 units for the week, increasing by 5.6% from the previous week. Compared to the same week last year (when 729,000 albums were sold), consumption is down 5.1%!

Note

This chart reflects my own personal music consumption; 1 song = 1,000 units. Top Contemporary Albums measures the performance of albums released within the past 18 months; Top Catalogue Albums ranks the performance of albums released prior to the past 18 months.

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