LADY GAGA LOGS SIXTH WEEK AT THE TOP AS CHROMATICA GOES 4 X PLATINUM!

Plus: Carole King & Alanis Morissette reach new sales milestones!

With sales of 99,000 copies, Lady Gaga’s Chromatica retains control of the L.dK Top 50 for a sixth cumulative week. This means Chromatica is now tied with Cyndi Lauper’s She’s so Unusual as the 6th longest-running number-one album in L.dK history. The list of longest-running number-one records is as follows:

1. Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey – 17 weeks
2. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 12 weeks
3. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 11 weeks
4. Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa – 8 weeks
5. Love + Fear – MARINA – 7 weeks
6. She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper – 6 weeks
7. Chromatica / Lady Gaga – 6 weeks
8. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 5 weeks
9. Melodrama / Lorde – 5 weeks
10. The Other Side of the Mirror / Stevie Nicks – 5 weeks

Gaga’s newest smash has now sold 1.28 million copies since its release, and is her second album to reach 4 x Platinum (1.2 million) status, following 2018’s Diamond-certified A Star is Born: that soundtrack climbs 19-18 this week selling 13,000 units – it has shifted 3.15 million overall.

Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection rises one spot to No.2, returning to its current chart peak. The best-of set, which spent the past two weeks sat at No.3, celebrates surpassing 300,000 in lifetimes sales. It marks the first release from King to be certified Platinum! This week, Beautiful sold 82,000 copies (on par).

After seemingly peaking at No.4 (for seven non-consecutive weeks!) Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor advances one rung to No.3, celebrating both a new best rank and a new sales peak, gaining by 1 percent to 68,000 sold. Petals has moved a hefty 500,000 copies to date.

Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure? slides 2-4 in its third week, after debuting at No.1 two weeks ago, moving 60,000 units (down 30 percent).

Bouncing from No.6 to No.5: Alanis Morissette’s The Collection re-enters the Top Five after peaking at No.2 for a record eight weeks earlier this year. With sales of 59,000 this week (up 7 percent), Collection goes 4 x Platinum alongside Lady Gaga’s aforementioned Chromatica.

Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors dips 5-6 in its third week (46,000 – down 19 percent).

The following three albums all hold their positions from last week: Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia at No.7 (35,000 – down 10 percent), Chloe x Halle’s No.5 peaking Ungodly Hour at No.8 (33,000 – down 2 percent), and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! at No.9 (28,000 – up 12 percent).

Rockwell! draws even with Fleetwood Mac’s legendary set Rumours, logging a 45th week inside the Top Ten! It marks the longest stint in the Top Ten, save for the all-time record-holder: Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna on 46 weeks.

1. Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks – 46 weeks
2. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 45 weeks
3. Norman Fucking Rockwell! / Lana Del Rey – 45 weeks
4. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 42 weeks
5. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks

Finally, Fiona Apple’s No.4 peaking Fetch the Bolt Cutters edges 11-10 (23,000 – on par) for a 12th week inside the Top Ten.

Industry: This week, music sales slipped by 5.4% to 879,000 sold overall.

Onto Next Week: Ellie Goulding’s fourth studio album Brightest Blue could generate between 125,000 and 150,000 units in first week sales, which will surely guarantee it a No.1 debut!

Important Moves in the Top 50!

No.13 – In Isolation / Elle King earns her third consecutive Top Twenty hit on the L.dK Top 50 as her 3-track EP In Isolation opens at No.13 boasting 19,000 copies in first week sales. While it falls far short of her previous studio efforts (2015’s Love Stuff hit No.1 in 2015, and 2018 saw King reach No.2 with the Multi-Platinum Shake the Spirit) it’s short tracklist mostly explains away the large drop in first week sales. Both of King’s prior albums rank on L.dK in conjunction with the EP’s release, Shake the Spirit moves back into the Top 20, hurtling 50-20 with 11,000 sold, while Love Stuff returns at No.35 with 6,000 sales.

No.23 – Women in Music Pt. III / After scoring HAIM their first Top Ten hit two weeks ago, their third studio album goes Silver (60,000) as it falls 15-23 on sales of 10,000 this week.

The Top 50

1. [=/6] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (7)
2. [+1/2] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (4)
3. [+1] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (10)
4. [-2] What’s Your Pleasure? – Jessie Ware (3)
5. [+1] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (14)
6. [-1] True Colors – Cyndi Lauper (3)
7. [=] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (16)
8. [+1] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (5)
9. [=] Norman Fucking Rockwell! – Lana Del Rey (46)
10. [+1] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (13)
11. [-1] After Hours – The Weeknd (17)
12. [+2] Fine Line – Harry Styles (31)
13. [NEW] In Isolation – Elle King (1)
14. [-1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (58)
15. [-3] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (70)
16. [=] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (9)
17. [=] Heart – HEART (20)
18. [+1] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (71)
19. [-1] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (54)
20. [+30] Shake the Spirit – Elle King (30)
21. [-1] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (31)
22. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (50)
23. [-8] Womenn in Music Pt.III – HAIM (3)
24. [+2] 25 – Adele (82)
25. [-3] Diva – Annie Lennox (76)
26. [+2] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (34)
27. [-2] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (32)
28. [-5] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (25)
29. [-2] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (17)
30. [-6] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (25)
31. [-2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (78)
32. [=] Cher – Cher (6)
33. [-2] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (21)
34. [+2] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (47)
35. [re] Love Stuff – Elle King (22)
36. [-6] Lover – Taylor Swift (47)
37. [-2] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (60)
38. [+5] Dancing Queen – Cher (69)
39. [-6] Devotion – Jessie Ware (29)
40. [-3] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (10)
41. [=] Bloom – Troye Sivan (43)
42. [=] 21 – Adele (37)
43. [-5] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (10)
44. [+1] Melodrama – Lorde (41)
45. [-11] Rare – Selena Gomez (27)
46. [-6] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (96)
47. [-1] 19 – Adele (29)
48. [=] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (44)
49. [=] Heart of Stone – Cher (40)
50. [-6] Bad Animals – HEART (56)

LADY GAGA’S CHROMATICA RETURNS FOR FIFTH WEEK AT NO.1!

Plus: Cyndi Lauper & The Weeknd hit new milestones, and Lana Del Rey re-enters the Top Ten!

Lady Gaga’s Chromatica reclaims the L.dK Weekly crown this week as it ticks 2-1, moving 112,000 copies (up 3 percent).

The hit debuted atop the chart dated 8th June with a 2020-high of 473,000 copies sold, and stayed at the top for a further three straight weeks. Chromatica has now shifted 1.18 million units to date, becoming the 2nd bestselling record of 2020 to date.

Slipping to No.2 following its No.1 opening is Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure?, moving 86,000 copies (down 24 percent). Meanwhile Carole King’s No.2 peaking A Beautiful Collection remains steady at No.3 with 82,000 units (down 1 percent).

For a sixth aggregate week, Hayley Williams holds at her No.4 peak with Petals for Armor. This week the record swells by 4 percent, selling 67,000 units.

Finishing off the Top Five: Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors holds at its No.5 high in its second week on the chart, shifting 57,000 copies (down 6 percent). Colors has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 units. It is the second album from the singer to be certified at least Gold, following her 1983 debut She’s so Unusual which was recently certified 5 x Platinum (1.5 million), and this week ascends 14-13 with 18,000 units.

Alanis Morissette’s The Collection repeats at No.6 after a record eight weeks at No.2 (55,000 – down 5 percent) while Dua Lipa’s former eight-week No.1 Future Nostalgia is a non-mover at No.7 (39,000 – down 17 percent).

Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour rebounds 9-8 with 34,000 units (up 3 percent): the R&B set debuted and peaked at No.5 in June, and has since been certified Gold.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell reverses course 13-9 to re-enter the Top Ten (25,000 – up 4 percent). Last week, Rockwell quit the Top Ten after 43 consecutive weeks in the region, and now nabs a 44th term in the top tier.

Stepping up 11-10: The Weeknd’s After Hours caps the region (24,000 – down 7 percent) and nabs a 15th frame in the space. Hours has now become the first album from a male solo artist to sell 1,000,000 copies!

Industry: This week total music sales slid by 8%, shifting 930,000 units across all albums.

Onto Next Week: Elle King’s 3-track In Isolation EP could debut inside the Top 20 with between 15,000 and 25,000 copies. Lady Gaga is also gunning for a sixth week at No.1 with sales in the region of 90,000 units.

The Top 50

1. [+1/5] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (6)
2. [-1] What’s Your Pleasure? – Jessie Ware (2)
3. [=] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (3)
4. [=/6] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (9)
5. [=/2] True Colors – Cyndi Lauper (2)
6. [=] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (13)
7. [=] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (14)
8. [+1] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (4)
9. [+3] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (45)
10. [+1] After Hours – The Weeknd (16)
11. [-1] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (11)
12. [=] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (69)
13. [+1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (57)
14. [+1] Fine Line – Harry Styles (30)
15. [-7] Women in Music Pt. III – HAIM (2)
16. [+1] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (8)
17. [-1] Heart – HEART (19)
18. [+1] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (53)
19. [+1] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (70)
20. [-2] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (30)
21. [+1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (49)
22. [+2] Diva – Annie Lennox (75)
23. [+8] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (27)
24. [-3] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (24)
25. [+2] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (31)
26. [+8] 25 – Adele (81)
27. [-4] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (16)
28. [=] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (33)
29. [+1] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (77)
30. [+3] Lover – Taylor Swift (46)
31. [+7] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (20)
32. [-7] Cher – Cher (5)
33. [-7] Devotion – Jessie Ware (28)
34. [-2] Rare – Selena Gomez (26)
35. [+2] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (59)
36. [-1] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (46)
37. [+2] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (9)
38. [+8] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (9)
39. [-10] Tough Love – Jessie Ware (36)
40. [+1] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (95)
41. [+1] Bloom – Troye Sivan (42)
42. [-6] 21 – Adele (36)
43. [+2] Dancing Queen – Cher (68)
44. [+6] Bad Animals – HEART (55)
45. [-5] Melodrama – Lorde (40)
46. [-3] 19 – Adele (28)
47. [-3] Birdy – Birdy (21)
48. [-1] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (43)
49. [-1] Heart of Stone – Cher (39)
50. [re] Shake the Spirit – Elle King (29)

JESSIE WARE COLLECTS HER FIRST NO.1 WITH WHAT’S YOUR PLEASURE?

As Pleasure starts at No.1, Cyndi Lauper & HAIM bow in the Top Five & Top Ten respectively!

Jessie Ware finally nabs her first No.1 album on L.dK Weekly – a feat that had alluded Ware until now, despite garnering three prior Top Ten hits!

What’s Your Pleasure? is the 53rd album to reach No.1 on L.dK and the 12th to top the list in 2020. It opens with sales of 114,000 copies, including 101,000 first-week sales and 13,000 pre-sales derived from singles.

First No.1: As previously mentioned, Pleasure is the first record from Ware to climb to No.1 on L.dK, but it follows three previous Top Ten records (Glasshouse and Tough Love, which both reached No.4, and the No.10 hit Devotion), and is the singer’s third to hit the Top Five!

Ware’s three studio albums all appear further down the Top 50 this week, with Glasshouse (2017) leading the way. It springs 19-12 with 25,000 copies sold, going 4 x Platinum (1.2 million) in the process.

Meanwhile, rising 48-26 with 9,000 units is the Gold-certified Devotion (2011). It just outpaces 2014’s Tough Love which re-enters at No.29 with 8,000 sold – the album has been certified Platinum and sold over 400,000.

Back in the Top Ten: Lady Gaga’s Chromatica slips to No.2 after a four-week command, dropping by 15 percent to 108,000 sold. While it cedes control of the chart, it surpasses 1,000,000 copies sold! It is the fourth album to sell at least 1 million units in 2020 following Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (1.56 million), Alanis Morissette’s The Collection (1.08 million) & Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell (1.03 million).

Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection slips 2-3 in its second week with 83,000 copies (down just 6 percent), going Gold with over 100,000 sold.

Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor rebounds 5-4, returning for a fifth overall week at its peak position. The album swelled by 14 percent this week, reaching a new sales high of 64,000 copies.

Cyndi Lauper pays her second visit to the Top Five as her sophomore record True Colors (1986) premieres at No.5, selling 61,000 units in its first seven days. Colors follows Lauper’s 1983 debut She’s so Unusual which started at No.1 in June 2019 with 82,000 copies, going on to spend a total of six weeks at the top spot, and selling in excess of 1.5 million copies! This week, Unusual surges 25-14 moving 20,000 copies.

Two of 2020’s biggest albums follow in the Top Ten: Alanis Morissette’s No.2 peaking smash The Collection tumbles 3-6 with 58,000 sold (down 10 percent), while Dua Lipa’s eight-week No.1 Future Nostalgia falls 4-7 moving 47,000 copies (down 16 percent).

HAIM are new at No.8 with their newly released album Women in Music Pt. III. It’s the country duo’s first visit to L.dK Weekly.

Rounding out the Top Ten: Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour goes Gold as it slides 6-9 with 33,000 (down 8 percent), and Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters attains Platinum status as it falls 8-10 (26,000 – on par).

Industry: Total sales received a 19.7% boost to 1,011,000 units overall in the most recent tracking week. Year-to-date sales have now surpassed 20 million albums!

Onto Next Week: There are no albums scheduled for release this week. Lady Gaga & Jessie Ware will likely for compete for the No.1 spot, with both Chromatica & What’s Your Pleasure? forecast to sell upwards of 90,000 copies.

Important Moves in the Top 50!

No.13 – Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey’s record-breaking fifth full-length studio album broke multiple record on L.dK, including becoming the longest-running No.1 album of all time with 17 weeks at the top spot, and ranking as the bestselling album in any calendar year with 1.886 million sold in 2019. Well, this week it drops from No.9 to No.13 selling 24,000 units, departing the Top Ten after a hefty 43 straight weeks in the region. Not just an impressive figure, it marks the longest consecutive stay in the region, and the third overall behind Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (44) and Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna (46).

No.16 – Heart / HEART’s only No.1 album drops 11-16 with 16,000 sold, after spending fourteen weeks in the Top Ten earlier this year. The 1985 hit is now certified 2 x Platinum for over 600,000 copies sold.

No.19 – The Whole Story / Kate Bush’s compilation The Whole Story (1986) backtracks 17-19 with 12,000 copies sold. In the same instance, Story becomes Bush’s second album to be certified 2 x Platinum following 1993’s The Red Shoes, and becomes her first to spend a whole year on L.dK!

The Top 50

1. [NEW] What’s Your Pleasure? – Jessie Ware (1)
2. [-1] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (5)
3. [-1] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (2)
4. [+1/5] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (8)
5. [NEW] True Colors – Cyndi Lauper (1)
6. [-3] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (12)
7. [-3] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (14)
8. [NEW] Women in Music Pt. III – HAIM (1)
9. [-3] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (3)
10. [-2] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (10)
11. [-4] After Hours – The Weeknd (15)
12. [+7] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (68)
13. [-4] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (44)
14. [+11] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (56)
15. [-2] Fine Line – Harry Styles (29)
16. [-5] Heart – HEART (18)
17. [-7] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (7)
18. [-6] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (29)
19. [-2] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (52)
20. [-6] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (69)
21. [-5] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (23)
22. [-4] Medusa – Annie Lennox (48)
23. [-3] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (15)
24. [-1] Diva – Annie Lennox (74)
25. [-10] Cher – Cher (4)
26. [+22] Devotion – Jessie Ware (27)
27. [-5] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (30)
28. [+1] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (32)
29. [re] Tough Love – Jessie Ware (35)
30. [-2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (76)
31. [-4] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (26)
32. [-11] Rare – Selena Gomez (25)
33. [-3] Lover – Taylor Swift (45)
34. [-8] 25 – Adele (80)
35. [-11] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (45)
36. [-5] 21 – Adele (35)
37. [-4] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (58)
38. [-3] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (19)
39. [-2] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (8)
40. [-2] Melodrama – Lorde (39)
41. [-2] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (94)
42. [-2] Bloom – Troye Sivan (41)
43. [-11] 19 – Adele (27)
44. [-10] Birdy – Birdy (20)
45. [-9] Dancing Queen – Cher (67)
46. [-1] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (8)
47. [-6] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (42)
48. [-6] Heart of Stone – Cher (38)
49. [-5] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (87)
50. [-4] Bad Animals – HEART (54)

LANA DEL REY’S NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL RANKS AS THE YEAR’S TOP ALBUM SO FAR; DUA LIPA RULES IN SALES; STEVIE NICKS REMAINS TOP ARTIST!

2020’S MUSIC INDUSTRY SALES SURPASS 19 MILLION IN JUST SIX MONTHS!

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell ranks as the most successful album of 2020, while Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia comes out on top in sales.

Lana at No.1: Norman Fucking Rockwell ranks as the most popular album of 2020 so far. The album has spent three non-consecutive weeks at the top spot this year and has yet to leave the Top Ten. Del Rey’s smash has sold 1.01 million copies. It’s the biggest album of 2020 in terms of chart performance, and ranks at No.3 for sales alone.

Rockwell opened at No.1 in September 2019 selling 194,000 copies, kicking off its record-breaking 14 week reign, a number it has since upped to 17 weeks.

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia is the second biggest album of 2020 to date. The album debuted at No.1 in April with 289,000 (the year’s second biggest sales week) and led the chart for eight consecutive weeks. It has yet to leave the Top Five, and has shifted a staggering 1.51 million units since its release.

Selena Gomez’ Rare ranks at No.3 overall, followed by The Weeknd’s After Hours which logged the largest sales week of the year when it was released in March (249,000 copies).

Ariana Grande’s live album K Bye for Now sits at No.5, the most popular album of the year not to top the chart, having peaked at No.2 for six weeks beginning in January.

Four retrospective releases dot the Mid-Year Top Ten, as Stevie Nicks’ compilation Timespace ranks at No.6, Alanis Morrissette’s million-selling The Collection is No.7, Florence + the Machine are at No.8 with How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, and completing the Top Ten is Annie Lennox’ Medusa at No.10.

Sitting at No.9 is Harry Styles’ former No.1 Fine Line.

Million-Sellers: Just through the end of June, three album have sold more than 1 million copies in 2020. An improvement over 2019’s Mid-Year, where 2 albums had topped the 1 million mark.

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia is in a league of its own, having sold a whopping 1.51 million units. Benefiting from its 8-week reign, Future has sold almost half a million copies more than its closest competitors: Alanis Morissette’s The Collection (No.2) with 1.02 million, and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell (1.01 million).

The Weeknd’s After Hours (971,000) and Lady Gaga’s Chromatica (969,000) complete the Top Five. Both albums should surpass 1 million sales in the coming weeks, meaning 2020 could produce 5 million-selling records. In 2019 there were 6 albums which sold over 1 million units.

2020’s Top 40 Albums – Mid-Year

1. Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
2. Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
3. Rare – Selena Gomez
4. After Hours – The Weeknd
5. K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
6. Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
7. The Collection – Alanis Morissette
8. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
9. Fine Line – Harry Styles
10. Medusa – Annie Lennox
11. Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
12. Heart – HEART
13. Lover – Taylor Swift
14. Chromatica – Lady Gaga
15. She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
16. Glasshouse – Jessie Ware
17. The Whole Story – Kate Bush
18. Diva – Annie Lennox
19. Manic – Halsey
20. Kid Krow – Conan Gray
21. Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS
22. Birdy – Birdy
23. Sweetener – Ariana Grande
24. GIRL – Maren Morris
25. Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks
26. Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple
27. Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen
28. Heartbreak Weather – Niall Horan
29. Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams
30. Rock a Little – Stevie Nicks
31. Dancing Queen – Cher
32. A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
33. 25 – Adele
34. Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen
35. thank u, next – Ariana Grande
36. 21 – Adele
37. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
38. Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa
39. A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
40. Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac

TOP 10 ALBUMS (SALES)

1. Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (1,516,000)
2. The Collection – Alanis Morissette (1,029,000)
3. Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (1,015,000)
4. After Hours – The Weeknd (971,000)
5. Chromatica – Lady Gaga (969,000)
6. Rare – Selena Gomez (664,000)
7. K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (648,000)
8. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (604,000)
9. Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (598,000)
10. Heart – HEART (593,000)

TOP 10 ALBUMS (CHART POINTS)

1. Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
2. Medusa – Annie Lennox
3. Rare – Selena Gomez
4. Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
5. K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
6. Fine line – Harry Styles
7. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
8. Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
9. Lover – Taylor Swift
10. She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper

Stevie Nicks again ranks as the top artist; Dua Lipa rules in sales!

Stevie Nicks ranks No.1: Possibly gunning for a fourth straight year as the top artist is Stevie Nicks, raking in over 1.27 million in sales, and charting multiple albums on the Mid-Year Charts.

Chart veterans Lana Del Rey & Ariana Grande are back to back at No.2 and No.3, while Dua Lipa ranks inside the Top Five for the first time at No.4, and Annie Lennox repeats inside the Top Five at No.5.

HEART are at No.6 – the highest-ranking group on the list – followed by chart newcomers Selena Gomez (No.7) and The Weeknd (No.8). Kate Bush ranks No.9 and Lady Gaga completes the Top Ten!

Lipa leads in sales: The top selling artist of 2020 to date, Lipa has sold 1.65 million albums across her two releases, with a massive 1.51 million of that figure coming from her latest LP Future Nostalgia.

Lana Del Rey (1.33 million), Stevie Nicks (1.27 million), Lady Gaga (1.07 million), Alanis Morissette (1.02 million) and Ariana Grande (1.02 million) are the five other artists to have all exceed 1 million sales in 2020.

2020’s Top 40 Artists – Mid-Year

1. Stevie Nicks
2. Lana Del Rey
3. Ariana Grande
4. Dua Lipa
5. Annie Lennox
6. HEART
7. Selena Gomez
8. The Weeknd
9. Kate Bush
10. Lady Gaga
11. Alanis Morissette
12. Florence + the Machine
13. Jessie Ware
14. Harry Styles
15. Taylor Swift
16. Tori Amos
17. Fleetwood Mac
18. Adele
19. Carly Rae Jepsen
20. Cher
21. Cyndi Lauper
22. Halsey
23. AURORA
24. Conan Gray
25. Birdy
26. BTS
27. Maren Morris
28. Hayley Williams
29. Fiona Apple
30. Niall Horan
31. Amy Winehouse
32. Camila Cabello
33. Broods
34. Lorde
35. Celeste
36. Nicki Minaj
37. Troye Sivan
38. Madonna
39. Hailee Steinfeld
40. MARINA

TOP 10 ARTISTS (SALES)

1. Dua Lipa – 1,651,000
2. Lana Del Rey – 1,332,000
3. Stevie Nicks – 1,271,000
4. Lady Gaga – 1,079,000
5. Alanis Morissette – 1,029,000
6. Ariana Grande – 1,027,000
7. The Weeknd – 971,000
8. HEART – 681,000
9. Annie Lennox – 677,000
10. Selena Gomez – 664,000

TOP 10 ARTISTS (CHART POINTS)

1. Stevie Nicks
2. Lana Del Rey
3. Ariana Grande
4. Annie Lennox
5. Kate Bush
6. Jessie Ware
7. HEART
8. Selena Gomez
9. Adele
10. Taylor Swift

MUSIC INDUSTRY SWELLS BY ALMOST 75%!

2nd Biggest Year: From January to June 2020, a total of 19,409,000 albums have been sold, making it the most successful Mid-Year tally to date, and the 2nd biggest year ever, with just 6 months of sales data. The L.dK Chart launched back in March 2017, ceasing briefly between February and August 2018 before resuming: in that time 73.2 million albums have been sold overall.

• *2017: 17.1 million
• *2018: 10.5 million
• 2019: 26.1 million
• 2020: 19.4 million

*- 2017 spanned 44 weeks, March-December *- 2018 spanned 23 weeks, January-February & August-December

19.4 million: The 19.4 million sales figure marks a 73.6% surge from 2019’s Mid-Year Chart, by which time 11.1 million albums had been sold. Broken down, each month of 2020 has become the most successful of its type. January & February saw over 2 million albums sold, while March, April & May each recorded sales of over 3 million. Finally, June marked the fist instance of monthly sales topping 4 million units.

• January – 2.08 million
• February – 2.04 million
• March – 3.43 million
• April – 3.93 million
• May – 3.26 million
• June – 4.65 million

Record Weekly Sales: Four weeks in 2020 have recorded upwards of 1 million sales, helped both by big album releases, and a general uplift in weekly sales since March (due to Covid-19). Since the end of March, weekly sales have fluctuated between 779,000 (11th May) and 1.18 million units (8th June). The biggest sales weeks of the year are as follows:

1. 8th June – 1,182,000
2. 6th April – 1,028,000
3. 20th April – 1,013,000
4. 27th April – 1,001,000
5. 30th March – 958,000
6. 15th June – 926,000
7. 4th May – 907,000
8. 22nd June – 899,000
9. 13th April – 891,000
10. 29th June – 841,000

LADY GAGA’S CHROMATICA STAYS AT NO.1 FOR A FOURTH WEEK!

PLUS: Carole King debuts at No.2 with A Beautiful Collection!

Lady Gaga’s Chromatica commands L.dK Weekly for a fourth successive week, declining by 22 percent and selling 128,000 copies.

Chromatica is the second album of 2020 to spend at least a month at the top spot – it follows Dua Lipa’s eight-week hit Future Nostalgia.

The smash has sold 969,000 copies to date. The hit is Gaga’s second album to be certified 3 x Platinum (900,000), joining the Diamond-Certified A Star is Born soundtrack (3.11 million).

Smashing onto L.dK at No.2 in Carole King’s A Beautiful Collection – it opens with sales of 89,000, wildly outperforming expectations which pegged the compilation to start with around 50,000 units.

Alanis Morissette’s slides 2-3 after a record-breaking eight (aggregate) weeks in the runner-up position, moving 63,000 copies (down 7 percent). Morissette’s best-of set has now become the 22nd album to sell over 1 million copies! It ranks as the 20th bestselling album of all time with 1.029 million units sold.

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia sinks 3-4 with 56,000 copies sold (down 13 percent) and becomes just the tenth album ever to be certified 5 x Platinum – denoting sales of 1.5 million units!

Rounding out the Top Five: After a total of four weeks at its No.4 peak, Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor backtracks to No.5 selling 56,000 copies this week (up 7 percent). As a consolation prize for dipping from its peak, the LP crosses 300,000 in total sales – it is now certified Platinum!

Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour steps down 5-6 in its second week (36,000 – down 23 percent) going Silver in the process (60,000 units), while The Weeknd holds steady with his former No.1 hit After Hours at No.7 (29,000 – down 6 percent). Also holding at No.8, and going Platinum this week, is Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters with 26,000 sold (down 13 percent) – Apple’s record reached No.4 in April.

Lana Del Rey’s record-breaking Norman Fucking Rockwell repeats at No.9 (24,000 – on par) as it becomes the 3rd longest-running Top Ten album ever, breaking out a tie with Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born.

1. Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks – 46 weeks
2. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 45 weeks
3. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 43 weeks
4. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 42 weeks
5. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks

Capping the Top Ten: Carly Rae Jepsen tumbles 6-10 with the No.1 record Dedicated Side B moving 21,000 copies (down 38 percent).

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.15 – Cher / The icon’s self-titled 1987 release slides from No.10 to No.15 selling 12,000 copies, leaving the Top Ten after just two weeks, during which time it peaked at No.6. The album has been certified Silver with 71,000 sold.

No.16 – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful / Florence + the Machine are down 13-16 with How Big, their most successful album to date, selling 12,000 units this week. With total sales of 604,000 copies, it is the first LP from the band to be certified 2 x Platinum! Their 2011 hit Ceremonials acquired a Platinum plaque in 2017 and has since sold more than 400,000 copies.

No.20 – Kid Krow / Conan Gray’s debut full-length studio album flew to a No.2 peak in March, and dips 19-20 in its 14th frame on the chart (10,000 units). Gray’s hit is now Platinum-certified with total sales of 306,000 units.

Industry: A total of 844,000 albums were sold this week, down 6.1% from the previous week

Onto Next Week: Jessie Ware’s new studio album What’s Your Pleasure? is looking to register the largest sales week for the singer, possibly resulting a No.1 debut as the album looks set to sell upwards of 100,000 copies. If Pleasure debuts at the top spot then it will earn Ware her first No.1, and her third Top Five record (fourth Top Ten). Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors (1986) will also receive a retrospective release, and could become the star’s second Top Five album – it should start with over 50,000 sales.

The Top 50

#. [+/=/-] Album – Artist (WoC)

1. [=/4] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (4)
2. [NEW] A Beautiful Collection – Carole King (1)
3. [-1] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (11)
4. [-1] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (13)
5. [-1] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (7)
6. [-1] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (2)
7. [=] After Hours – The Weeknd (14)
8. [=] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (10)
9. [=] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (43)
10. [-4] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (6)
11. [=] Heart – HEART (17)
12. [=] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (28)
13. [+3] Fine Line – Harry Styles (28)
14. [+7] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (68)
15. [-5] Cher – Cher (3)
16. [-3] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (22)
17. [+3] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (51)
18. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (47)
19. [+8] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (67)
20. [-1] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (14)
21. [-3] Rare – Selena Gomez (24)
22. [=] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (29)
23. [+1] Diva – Annie Lennox (73)
24. [+1] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (44)
25. [+1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (55)
26. [-3] 25 – Adele (79)
27. [+1] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (25)
28. [+2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (75)
29. [-15] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (31)
30. [+1] Lover – Taylor Swift (44)
31. [-2] 21 – Adele (34)
32. [+3] 19 – Adele (26)
33. [+3] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (57)
34. [-2] Birdy – Birdy (19)
35. [+2] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (18)
36. [+2] Dancing Queen – Cher (66)
37. [-22] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (7)
38. [+1] Melodrama – Lorde (38)
39. [-5] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (93)
40. [+1] Bloom – Troye Sivan (40)
41. [+1] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (41)
42. [+1] Heart of Stone – Cher (37)
43. [+1] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa (22)
44. [+1] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (86)
45. [+1] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (7)
46. [+3] Bad Animals – HEART (53)
47. [+3] Jade Bird – Jade Bird (5)
48. [re] Devotion – Jessie Ware (26)
49. [re] Never for Ever – Kate Bush (18)
50. [-10] GIRL – Maren Morris (15)

LADY GAGA ADDS THIRD STRAIGHT WEEK AT NO.1!

PLUS: Chloe x Halle start in the Top Five with Ungodly Hour.

Lady Gaga’s Chromatica sold 166,000 copies in the tracking week, down by 17 percent compared to the previous week, easily earning the smash a third consecutive week at No.1 on L.dK Weekly.

Alanis Morissette’s The Collection holds at No.2 for a record-extending eighth (non-consecutive) week, moving 68,000 copies (down 4 percent). The compilation set from 2005 has now sold a massive 966,000 units, and has been certified 3 x Platinum for sales exceeding 900,000 copies.

Also staying put at No.3 is Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (which previously led for eight weeks) with 65,000 sales (down 7 percent). It sits just above Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor – at its No.4 peak for a fourth total week – selling 52,000 copies (up 6 percent).

Opening at No.5: Chloe x Halle’s Ungodly Hour sold 47,000 copies in its first week, enough for a No.5 start on the list. The R&B set is the first album from the duo to chart on L.dK.

Following a one-week stint at the top spot in May, Carly Rae Jepsen’s Dedicated Side B sinks 5-6 (34,000 – down 27 percent). Meanwhile, holding at No.7 is The Weeknd’s No.1 hit After Hours (31,000 – down 6 percent), and sticking at No.7 is Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple’s No.4 peaking set (30,000 – up 3 percent).

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell repeats at No.9 with 24,000 sold (down 11 percent). The longest-running number-one album ever has now spent a whopping 42 weeks in the Top Ten – this accounts for the album’s entire chart run, dating to its No.1 debut last September. 42 weeks equals the stay of A Star is Born among the longest-running Top Ten albums in history.

1. Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks – 46 weeks
2. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 45 weeks
3. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 42 weeks
4. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 42 weeks
5. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks

Cher’s self-titled caps the Top Ten this week, sliding to No.10 off a No.6 debut last week, moving 23,000 copies (down 36 percent).

Industry: Music consumption totalled 899,000 this week, down 2.9% from the previous week.

Onto Next Week: Carole King’s compilation A Beautiful Collection looks to sell upwards of 50,000 copies in its first week of retrospective release.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.14 – Greatest Hits / Re-entering L.dK at No.14 this week is Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 compilation set, moving 14,000 copies. The collection peaked at No.1 in Apirl 2019, and has now sold more than 600,000 copies – it is the fourth release from Fleetwood Mac to be certified 2 x Platinum, following Rumours (5 x Platinum) and Tango in the Night & Mirage which are both 2 x Platinum certified.

No.26 – She’s so Unusual / Cyndi Lauper’s debut album (1984) drops 23-26 this week, with 9,000 sold bringing its total sales figure to an impressive 1.5 million units. Unusual topped the chart for six weeks in the Summer of 2019 and has spent more than a year on the list; it is also the 9th bestselling album of all time.

No.49 – Bad Animals / HEART’S 1987 record Bad Animals topped out at No.6 in August 2018, earning the Wilson sisters their first Top Ten hit (they would score their first No.1 earlier this year with 1985’s self-titled set). It has been certified Platinum, and as of this week as spent a full year on L.dK, dropping 46-49 this time with 3,000 copies sold.

N/A – Stand Back / While it fails to earn a place on L.dK this week, Stevie Nicks’ 2019 anthology collection sold 3,000 units this week. Overall the compilation has shifted 601,000 units since it was released last May, during which time it reached No.2. Stand Back is Nicks’ third compilation record to be certified Multi-Platinum following 2007’s Crystal Visions (4 x Platinum) and 1991’s Timespace (2 x Platinum), and including studio albums it is her seventh effort to sell over 600,000 copies.

The Top 50:

#. [+/-/=] Album – Artist (WoC)

1. [=/3] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (3)
2. [=/8] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (10)
3. [=] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (12)
4. [=/4] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (6)
5. [NEW] Ungodly Hour – Chloe x Halle (1)
6. [-1] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (5)
7. [=] After Hours – The Weeknd (13)
8. [=] Fetch the Bolt Cutter – Fiona Apple (9)
9. [=] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (42)
10. [-4] Cher – Cher (2)
11. [=] Heart – HEART (16)
12. [=] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (27)
13. [+1] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (21)
14. [re] Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac (30)
15. [-5] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (6)
16. [+1] Fine Line – Harry Styles (27)
17. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (46)
18. [-3] Rare – Selena Gomez (23)
19. [-6] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (13)
20. [-1] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (50)
21. [-1] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (67)
22. [-1] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (28)
23. [-5] 25 – Adele (78)
24. [+1] Diva – Annie Lennox (72)
25. [-3] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (43)
26. [-3] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (54)
27. [-3] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (66)
28. [-2] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (24)
29. [-2] 21 – Adele (33)
30. [-2] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (74)
31. [-2] Lover – Taylor Swift (43)
32. [-2] Birdy – Birdy (18)
33. [+6] Heartbreak Weather – Naill Horan (14)
34. [-1] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (92)
35. [+6] 19 – Adele (25)
36. [-2] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (56)
37. [-2] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (17)
38. [-7] Dancing Queen – Cher (65)
39. [+5] Melodrama – Lorde (37)
40. [-2] GIRL – Maren Morris (14)
41. [-1] Bloom – Troye Sivan (39)
42. [=] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (40)
43. [-7] Heart of Stone – Cher (36)
44. [-7] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa (21)
45. [=] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (85)
46. [-14] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (6)
47. [re] Love + Fear – MARINA (39)
48. [re] Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande (11)
49. [-3] Bad Animals – HEART (52)
50. [re] Jade Bird – Jade Bird (4)

LADY GAGA RULES FOR SECOND WEEK WITH MAMMOTH SALES FIGURES!

PLUS: Cher claims her third Top Ten!

Lady Gaga’s Chromatica rules the Top 50 for a second week. The set earned 202,000 units in the most recent tracking week – a drop of 57 percent.

In its first two weeks, Gaga’s Chromatica has sold 675,000 copies and been certified 2 x Platinum (600,000). A week ago, it blasted to No.1 with 473,000 units, marking the highest first week sales stat of the year, and the second greatest figure of all time.

Chromatica is Gaga’s second release to be certified 2 x Platinum, following A Star is Born: Diamond, with 3.09 million sold. This week the soundtrack slides 12-20 with 12,000 sold.

Alanis Morissette’s The Collection rebounds from No.3 to its No.2 peak (71,000 – up 4 percent) , earning a seventh week in the runner up spot. The greatest hits set now holds the record for the most weeks at No.2 without reaching the No.1 spot, surpassing Ariana Grande’s live album K Bye for Now which sat at No.2 for six straight weeks earlier this year.

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia steps down 2-3 (70,000 – down 1 percent) after eight weeks at the top spot.

Hayley Williams returns to her L.dK peak as Petals for Armor shifts 5-4 with 49,000 units (up 11 percent). The album has now spent a total of three weeks at No.4.

After shooting to No.1 two weeks ago, Carly Rae Jepsen’s Dedicated Side B slides 4-5 (47,000 – down 22 percent).

Debuting at No.6 this week is Cher’s self-titled release from 1987 on sales of 36,000 units. It marks Cher’s third visit to the Top Ten, in as many releases. She hit a peak of No.2 in October 2018 with her ABBA covers album Dancing Queen and would match that feat in April 2019 with 1988’s Heart of Stone: Dancing has sold over 1 million copies, while Heart has been certified Platinum.

The Weeknd’s After Hours slips 6-7 (33,000 – up 6 percent) in its 12th week in the Top Ten: the former No.1 has sold 911,000 to date, making it the first album by a male artist to be certified 3 x Platinum (900,000).

Fiona Apple holds at No.8 with her No.4 peaking Fetch the Bolt Cutters (29,000 – up 11 percent). Lana Del Rey’s seventeen-week No.1 smash Norman Fucking Rockwell dives 7-9 (27,000 – down 3 percent), while Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk remains at No.10 (20,000 – on par) after debuting at a No.3 high in May.

Industry: 926,000 albums were sold this week, a 21.6% downturn from the prior week which saw total sales hit a record 1.182 million.

Onto Next Week: Chloe x Halle’s upcoming album Ungodly Hour could earn a position in the Top Five, possibly selling more than 40,000 units in its first week.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.17 – Fine Line / The sophomore album from Harry Styles elevates 20-17 this week selling 13,000 copies. Fine hit No.1 in December 2019, and spent three months in the Top Ten, and now after twenty-six straight weeks in the Top 50 it has surpassed 600,000 sold. It is just the second album from a male artist to be certified Multi-Platinum after The Weeknd’s After Hours (3 x Platinum).

No.19 – The Whole Story / Kate Bush’ greatest hits collection has now become the longest charting album from the star, with 49 weeks on the list. This week it backtracks 18-19 with 12,000 units.

The Top 50

#. [+/-/=] Album – Artist (WoC)

1. [=/2] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (2)
2. [+1/7] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (9)
3. [-1] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (11)
4. [+1/3] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (5)
5. [-1] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (4)
6. [NEW] Cher – Cher (1)
7. [-1] After Hours – The Weeknd (12)
8. [=] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (8)
9. [-2] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (41)
10. [=] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (5)
11. [-1] Heart – HEART (15)
12. [-1] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (26)
13. [+1] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (12)
14. [+1] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (20)
15. [-2] Rare – Selena Gomez (22)
16. [+1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (45)
17. [+3] Fine Line – Harry Styles (26)
18. [+1] 25 – Adele (77)
19. [-1] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (49)
20. [-8] A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (66)
21. [-5] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (27)
22. [-1] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (42)
23. [=] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (53)
24. [-2] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (65)
25. [-1] Diva – Annie Lennox (71)
26. [-1] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (23)
27. [-1] 21 – Adele (32)
28. [=] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (73)
29. [+4] Lover – Taylor Swift (42)
30. [-3] Birdy – Birdy (17)
31. [+13] Dancing Queen – Cher (64)
32. [=] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (5)
33. [-4] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (91)
34. [+3] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (55)
35. [-4] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (16)
36. [+14] Heart of Stone – Cher (35)
37. [-3] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa (20)
38. [-3] GIRL – Maren Morris (13)
39. [-9] Heartbreak Weather – Niall Horan (13)
40. [=] Bloom – Troye Sivan (38)
41. [-5] 19 – Adele (24)
42. [=] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (39)
43. [-5] Born to Die: Paradise Edition – Lana Del Rey (43)
44. [-5] Melodrama – Lorde (36)
45. [+2] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (84)
46. [=] Bad Animals – HEART (51)
47. [+1] Devotion – Jessie Ware (25)
48. [-3] Honeymoon – Lana Del Rey (26)
49. [-8] Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey (71)
50. [-7] Queen – Nicki Minaj (53)

LADY GAGA’S CHROMATICA BECOMES 2020’S FASTEST-SELLING ALBUM!

Lady Gaga roars onto L.dK Weekly with Chromatica, nabbing the star her second number-one and earning her the fastest-selling album of 2020 – it is the 52nd number-one album on L.dK!

Biggest Week of 2020: Chromatica sold a staggering 473,000 units in its first seven days, comprising of 329,000 in pure sales and a further 134,000 pre-sales, derived from single sales before the album was released. It blows past Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia – the previous record-holder for 2020 with 289,000 in its debut frame.

Second Biggest Week Ever: 473,000 grants Gaga the second greatest sales week of all time, behind only Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life which launched to 639,000 sold in July 2017.

1. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 639,000
2. Chromatica / Lady Gaga – 473,000
3. Melodrama / Lorde – 345,000
4. Lover / Taylor Swift – 310,000
5. reputation / Taylor Swift – 309,000

Chromatica is the second album from Lady Gaga to reach No.1 on L.dK Weekly. She previously topped the list alongside Bradley Cooper with the soundtrack A Star is Born: the album spent a then-record twelve weeks at the summit, and holds the record for the most weeks inside the Top Ten. Star was officially named the Greatest Album of All Time at the end of 2019, in terms of weekly chart performance and sales.

This week, A Star is Born returns at No.12 shifting 17,000 units, and earning a 65th week on the list. The soundtrack has shifted 3.079 million copies since release, and is the bestselling album of all time.

Dua Lipa stays put at No.2 for a second week with Future Nostalgia (71,000 – down 6 percent), after the album ruled for its first eight weeks. Alanis Morissette meanwhile holds at No.3 after six weeks at No.2 (68,000 – down 5 percent).

Last week’s No.1 – Carly Rae Jepsen’s Dedicated Side B – slides to No.4, with sales dropping by 36 percent to 61,000 sold.

Capping the Top Five, Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor regresses from its No.4 high to No.5 after two weeks (44,000 – up 7 percent).

The Weeknd’s former No.1 After Hours slips 5-6, departing the Top Five for the first time after ten weeks in the region (31,000 – down 3 percent).

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell steps down 6-7 (28,000 – down 12 percent). The juggernaut has now become Del Rey’s longest-running Top Ten record with 40 weeks in the top tier. It now stands at No.4 among the LP’s with the most time spent in the Top Ten:

1. Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks – 46 weeks
2. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 45 weeks
3. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 42 weeks
4. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 40 weeks
5. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks

Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters dips 7-8 after hitting No.4 (26,000 – down 3 percent); HEART are stationary with their No.1 self-titled hit (21,000 – up 5 percent). Moving 12-10, and back into the Top Ten for a third week, is Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk (20,000 – up 11 percent) which debuted and peaked at No.3 in May.

Industry: Music consumption reaches a record high this week, surging by 47 percent from 804,000 to 1.182 million. It tops the 1.028 million sold in the week ending 6th April 2020.

Onto Next Week: Cher’s 1987 self-titled record is gunning for a Top Ten start, perhaps with over 35,000 sold.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.18 – The Whole Story / Kate Bush’ best-of set from 1986 has now become tied as the singer’s longest-charting record on L.dK Weekly. Bush’ 1993 album The Red Shoes has logged a total of 48 weeks on the list to date, but is not currently on the chart, and so Story will likely surpass this high next week. This week the album – which topped out at No.4 – holds at No.18 selling 13,000 copies.

No.23 – She’s so Unusual / Cyndi Lauper’s debut album from 1984 ticks 24-23 with 10,000 sold. The album celebrates a whole year on L.dK: it previously commanded the list for six weeks, and has sold 1.48 million units.

No.32 – Half Written Story / Hailee Steinfeld’s sophomore EP repeats at No.32 with 6,000 sold. The set debuted and peaked at No.4 in May, and has now been certified Silver denoting sales of 60,000 copies.

No.43 – Queen / Staying in place at No.43 (4,000), Nicki Minaj’s No.2 peaking smash Queen has now been present inside the Top Fifty for an entire year.

The Top 50

#. [=/-/=] Album – Artist (WoC)

1. [NEW] Chromatica – Lady Gaga (1)
2. [=] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa (10)
3. [=] The Collection – Alanis Morissette (8)
4. [-3] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen (3)
5. [-1] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams (4)
6. [-1] After Hours – The Weeknd (11)
7. [-1] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (40)
8. [-1] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple (7)
9. [=] Heart – HEART (14)
10. [+2] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac (4)
11. [-1] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos (25)
12. [re] A Star is Born OST – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (65)
13. [-2] Rare – Selena Gomez (21)
14. [-1] Kid Krow – Conan Gray (11)
15. [-1] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (19)
16. [-1] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (26)
17. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (44)
18. [=] The Whole Story – Kate Bush (48)
19. [=] 25 – Adele (76)
20. [=] Fine Line – Harry Styles (25)
21. [-4] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen (41)
22. [-1] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware (64)
23. [+1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper (52)
24. [-2] Diva – Annie Lennox (70)
25. [-2] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (23)
26. [+1] 21 – Adele (31)
27. [-2] Birdy – Birdy (16)
28. [=] Sweetener – Ariana Grande (72)
29. [=] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks (90)
30. [-4] Heartbreak Weather – Niall Horan (12)
31. [-1] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS (15)
32. [=] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld (4)
33. [+2] Lover – Taylor Swift (41)
34. [-3] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa (19)
35. [-1] GIRL – Maren Morris (12)
36. [=] 19 – Adele (23)
37. [=] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse (54)
38. [+1] Born to Die: Paradise Edition – Lana Del Rey (42)
39. [+2] Melodrama – Lorde (35)
40. [+2] Bloom – Troye Sivan (37)
41. [-1] Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey (70)
42. [-4] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods (38)
43. [=] Queen – Nicki Minaj (52)
44. [+1] Dancing Queen – Cher (63)
45. [-12] Honeymoon – Lana Del Rey (25)
46. [=] Bad Animals – HEART (50)
47. [+1] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac (83)
48. [+2] Devotion – Jessie Ware (24)
49. [-5] A Different Kind of Human – AURORA (46)
50. [-1] Heart of Stone – Cher (34)

CARLY RAE JEPSEN ROARS TO NO.1 WITH DEDICATED SIDE B!

PLUS: The 1975 debut at No.8 with Notes on a Conditional Form.

Carly Rae Jepsen collects her second chart-topper on L.dK Weekly as Dedicated Side B surges to No.1! Side B debuted at No.6 last week with one day of sales, moving 30,000 units – this week it swells by 220 percent to 96,000 sold.

Jepsen previously led the chart for two weeks in May-June 2019 with Dedicated, which opened to sales of 154,000. That album springs 24-17 this week with 14,000 units sold.

After logging eight consecutive weeks at No.1, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia is pushed down to No.2. Sales are down by just 6 percent to 76,000 sold. The album has now sold a hefty 1.25 million copies, and has been certified 4 x Platinum for sales topping 1.2 million units. It is the first album released in 2020 to reach this milestone, and the fourteenth overall.

Alanis Morissette’s The Collection dips 2-3 after a record-tying sixth week in the runner-up position, selling 72,000 units (down 10 percent).

Holding at its No.4 high for a second week is Hayley Williams’ Petals for Armor, moving 41,000 copies (up 20 percent). The LP has now been certified Gold for selling 100,000 units.

The Weeknd rounds out the Top Five as After Hours slides 3-5 with 32,000 sales (down 15 percent), after topping the tally for a week in March.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell lunges 8-6, increasing by 28 percent to 32,000 sold. The LP – which previously ruled for 17 frames – is now tied with Lust for Life as Del Rey’s album with most weeks in the Top Ten – both with 39 weeks in the highest tier.

1. Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks – 46 weeks
2. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 45 weeks
3. A Star is Born – OST / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 42 weeks
4. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks
5. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks

Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters sinks 5-7 after hitting No.4 (27,000 – down 12 percent); HEART stay at No.9 with their self-titled album after it peaked at No.1 in March (20,000 – down 20 percent), while Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes ascends 12-10 with 20,000 sold (down 5 percent) – Amos’ hit debuted and peaked at No.2 in December 2019, and as of this week has been certified 2 x Platinum (600,000).

Launching at No.8 with sales of 24,000 copies is The 1975’s Notes on a Conditional Form.

Industry: Total consumption gains by 2.5% to 804,000 sold in the tracking week.

Onto next week: Lady Gaga’s Chromatica looks set to launch atop L.dK, and potentially could sell upwards of 300,000 copies. Cher’s self-titled 1986 set will receive a retrospective release, and should debut in the Top Ten with 30-40,000 sold.

Important Moves in the Top 50!

No.11 – Rare / Selena Gomez made her first trip to No.1 in January this year with Rare which became the fastest-selling album of the year at the time. The LP has now been certified 2 x Platinum with total sales of 611,000 copies: it repeats at No.11 selling 19,000.

No.20 – Fine Line / For the first time since the end of April, Harry Styles’ Fine Line – which topped the tally for a single week in December 2019 – ranks inside the Top 20. This week it bounces 32-20 (moving 11,000 copies), gaining following the release of the album’s new single “Watermelon Sugar”.

No.43 – Queen / Nicki Minaj’s No.2 hit stays put at No.43 moving 5,000 copies. The rap smash has now been certified 3 x Platinum with sales exceeding 900,000 units.

The Top 50

1. [+5] Dedicated Side B – Carly Rae Jepsen
2. [-1] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
3. [-1] The Collection – Alanis Morissette
4. [=] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams
5. [-2] After Hours – The Weeknd
6. [+2] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
7. [-2] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple
8. [NEW] Notes on a Conditional Form – THE 1975
9. [=] Heart – HEART
10. [+2] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
11. [=] Rare – Selena Gomez
12. [-5] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac
13. [=] Kid Krow – Conan Gray
14. [-4] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
15. [-1] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
16. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox
17. [+7] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen
18. [-2] The Whole Story – Kate Bush
19. [-2] 25 – Adele
20. [+12] Fine Line – Harry Styles
21. [-3] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware
22. [-2] Diva – Annie Lennox
23. [-1] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
24. [-1] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
25. [-4] Birdy – Birdy
26. [-7] Heartbreak Weather – Niall Horan
27. [+1] 21 – Adele
28. [+1] Sweetener – Ariana Grande
29. [-2] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks
30. [=] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS
31. [=] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa
32. [-7] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld
33. [re] Honeymoon – Lana Del Rey
34. [-8] GIRL – Maren Morris
35. [-2] Lover – Taylor Swift
36. [-2] 19 – Adele
37. [+1] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
38. [-3] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods
39. [+2] Born to Die: Paradise Edition – Lana Del Rey
40. [re] Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey
41. [-5] Melodrama – Lorde
42. [+2] Bloom – Troye Sivan
43. [-1] Queen – Nicki Minaj
44. [-5] A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
45. [=] Dancing Queen – Cher
46. [=] Bad Animals – HEART
47. [re] Ultraviolence – Lana Del Rey
48. [-8] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
49. [re] Heart of Stone – Cher
50. [-3] Devotion – Jessie Ware

DUA LIPA NARROWLY WINS EIGHTH WEEK AT THE SUMMIT; ALANIS MORISSETTE TIES A RECORD AT NO.2!

PLUS: Hayley Williams reaches the Top Five, Carly Rae Jepsen debuts at No.6!

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia finds itself in familiar territory, at the top of L.dK Weekly – a spot where it has stayed now for eight consecutive weeks. It now stands alone as the fourth-longest running number one album of all time.

1. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 17 weeks
2. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 12 weeks
3. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 11 weeks
4. Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa – 8 weeks
5. Love + Fear / MARINA – 7 weeks

While Future wins an eighth straight term at the summit, and extends its record as the longest-running No.1 of 2020, it does so with the smallest sales lead possible, beating Alanis Morrissette’s The Collection to No.1 by a margin of just 1,000 sales.

Future drops by 10 percent – moving 81,000 units – while Collection slips by just 5 percent to 80,000 sold. The latter album has now spent six straight weeks at No.2 without hitting No.1 – tying it with Ariana Grande’s K Bye for Now which also spent six weeks in the runner up spot, never topping the chart.

While Morissette looks primed to outsell Lipa in the coming weeks, a new release may just surpass her: it debuts further down the list this week…

The Weeknd’s After Hours lifts 5-3 (35,000 – down 8 percent) after topping the chart dated March 30th earlier this year.

Hayley Williams meanwhile reaches her highest ever rank on L.dK as Petals for Armor bolts 8-4 in its second week, increasing by 36 percent to 34,000 sold. Just beneath Williams: Fiona Apple’s No.4 peaking Fetch the Bolt Cutters ticks 6-5 for a second week in the Top Five (31,000 – up 10 percent).

Debuting at No.6 with just a single day of activity – in which it earned 30,000 units – is Carly Rae Jepsen’s new Dedicated Side B. The album was surprise-released on the final day of the tracking week, and so debuts with only a partial sales week. Side B follows Dedicated which ruled the roost for two weeks in May-June 2019, and last week was certified 3 x Platinum for sales of over 900,000 units.

Side B looks set to challenge for the No.1 spot, potentially looking to sell around 100,000 copies – it would nab Jepsen her second No.1 record.

Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk slides 3-7 in its second week (25,000 – down 46 percent) as it goes Silver with sales exceeding 60,000 copies. This is the sixth album from Fleetwood Mac to reach this threshold.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell rebounds 9-8 moving 25,000 copies (up 4 percent). The album – which previously spent a record 17 weeks at No.1 – now ranks among the top five longest-running top ten albums in history. Del Rey is currently the only artist to feature on the list twice.

1. Bella Donna / Stevie Nicks – 46 weeks
2. Rumours / Fleetwood Mac – 45 weeks
3. A Star is Born / Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – 42 weeks
4. Lust for Life / Lana Del Rey – 39 weeks
5. Norman Fucking Rockwell / Lana Del Rey – 38 weeks

Capping the Top Ten: HEART are down 7-9 with their self-titled set (24,000 – down 12 percent), which earns a 12th week in the Top Ten, and Florence + the Machine shift 12-10 with How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (21,000 – on par).

Industry: Total consumption was down just 1.02% to 784,000 in the most recent tracking week.

Onto next week: Carly Rae Jepsen’s Dedicated Side B could sell anywhere in the region of 90-110k in its first full week, while The 1975’s Notes on a Conditional Form could achieve a Top Ten debut with 20-30k sold.

Important Moves in & beyond the Top 50!

No.15 – Medusa / Annie Lennox’ 1995 solo album edges 16-15 with sales of 16,000 units in its 42nd charting week. The most recent haul takes its lifetime sales figure to a whopping 1.501 million, making it just the eighth album to sell as many units, being certified 5 x Platinum (1.5 million). More impressively: Medusa isn’t Lennox’ first record to earn this distinction, as her 1992 solo debut Diva has sold 1.66 million to date. The latter steps 21-20 this week with 11,000 sold.

No.22 – K Bye for Now / Ariana Grande’s live-album peaked at No.2 in January this year, eventually staying there for a record six weeks (a mark it now shares), and remained in the Top Ten for a total of 10 weeks. One of 2020’s biggest releases, the set has now been certified 2 x Platinum for sales of over 600,000 units. It joins Grande’s two previous albums – Sweetener and thank u, next – which are certified 5 x Platinum and 3 x Platinum respectively.

No.38 – Back to Black / The final album from Amy Winehouse before her death, Back to Black has now become the singer’s first album to spend 52 weeks, or an entire year on L.dK. The iconic release has sold more than 1,000,000 copies.

The Top 50

1. [=/8] Future Nostalgia – Dua Lipa
2. [=/6] The Collection – Alanis Morissette
3. [+2] After Hours – The Weeknd
4. [+4] Petals for Armor – Hayley Williams
5. [+1] Fetch the Bolt Cutters – Fiona Apple
6. [NEW] Dedicated B Sides – Carly Rae Jepsen
7. [-4] Tusk – Fleetwood Mac
8. [+1] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
9. [-2] Heart – HEART
10. [+2] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
11. [=] Rare – Selena Gomez
12. [-2] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
13. [=] Kid Krow – Conan Gray
14. [+4] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
15. [+1] Medusa – Annie Lennox
16. [+1] The Whole Story – Kate Bush
17. [+2] 25 – Adele
18. [+9] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware
19. [-5] Heartbreak Weather – Niall Horan
20. [+1] Diva – Annie Lennox
21. [+1] Birdy – Birdy
22. [-2] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
23. [=] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
24. [+5] Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen
25. [-21] Half Written Story – Hailee Steinfeld
26. [-2] GIRL – Maren Morris
27. [+10] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks
28. [+3] 21 – Adele
29. [+3] Sweetener – Ariana Grande
30. [-2] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS
31. [-5] Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa
32. [-2] Fine Line – Harry Styles
33. [+1] Lover – Taylor Swift
34. [+4] 19 – Adele
35. [=] Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods
36. [=] Melodrama – Lorde
37. [+11] The Wild Heart – Stevie Nicks
38. [+1] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
39. [+1] A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
40. [+1] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
41. [re] Born to Die: Paradise Edition – Lana Del Rey
42. [=] Queen – Nicki Minaj
43. [-10] Begin to Hope – Regina Spektor
44. [-1] Bloom – Troye Sivan
45. [-1] Dancing Queen – Cher
46. [re] Bad Animals – HEART
47. [re] Devotion – Jessie Ware
48. [re] The Sensual World – Kate Bush
49. [-4] Madame x – Madonna
50. [-4] Cry Baby – Melanie Martinez