LANA DEL REY RETURNS TO NO.1 FOR RECORD-EXTENDING 17TH WEEK!

Plus: Jessie Ware’s Glasshouse re-enters Top Ten.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell ascends 3-1 to claim a record-extending 17th week atop Ld.K Weekly, selling 46,000 units. The album further strengthens it stance as the longest-running number one album of all time, pulling even further ahead of Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born which ruled for 12 weeks during 2018 and 2019!

The record has spent its entire 28-week-tenure inside the Top Five, matching it with Del Rey’s own Lust for Life: both sets lag behind Star which has logged 31 weeks in the region.

HEART’S 1985 eponymous set sinks 1-2 in its second week (41,000) while going Gold, and Florence + the Machine surge back to their peak of No.3 with How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful moving 40,000 copies.

Halsey’s Manic stays put at No.4 (31,000); Selena Gomez’ Rare ascends 7-5 (27,000); Taylor Swift leaps 9-6 with Lover (26,000) and Annie Lennox springs 10-7 with Medusa (25,000).

BTS slide from No.2 to No.8 in their third week on L.dK. The fastest-selling record of the year moved another 23,000 copies this week, bringing its total sales figure to 196,000.

After peaking at No.2 for six consecutive weeks, Ariana Grande’s K Bye for Now tumbles 5-9 with 20,000 units.

Moving back into the Top Ten this week is Jessie Ware’s Glasshouse: it ascends 11-10 with sales of 20,000 copies.

Ware’s Glasshouse has now sold a an impressive 1,002,000 units making it the 17th album to sell 1,000,000 copies. The album peaked at No.4 in both 2018 and 2019, and this week nabs a 28th frame inside the Top Ten! In addition: Glasshouse is the 11th album to spend a full year (52 weeks) on the tally.

Onto next week: both Niall Horan’s new Heartbreak Weather and Maren Morris’ GIRL are set to enter the chart.

Important Moves in the Top 40!

No.21 – Compilation 1:1 / After peaking at No.5, Celeste’s debut set falls from No.8 to No.21 in its third week, selling 10,000 copies. The album has now been certified Silver with sales over 60,000.

The Top 40

1. [+2] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
2. [-1] Heart – HEART
3. [+3] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
4. [=] Manic – Halsey
5. [+2] Rare – Selena Gomez
6. [+3] Lover – Taylor Swift
7. [+3] Medusa – Annie Lennox
8. [-6] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS
9. [-4] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
10. [+1] Glasshouse – Jessie Ware
11. [+7] The Whole Story – Kate Bush
12. [=] Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
13. [NEW] Silver Landings – Mandy Moore
14. [=] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
15. [=] Fine Line – Harry Styles
16. [re] Pure Heroine – Lorde
17. [4] Birdy – Birdy
18. [-2] She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
19. [+2] A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
20. [re] Melodrama – Lorde
21. [-13] Compilation 1:1 – Celeste
22. [-3] Diva – Annie Lennox
23. [+10] The Red Shoes – Kate Bush
24. [+16] Rock a Little – Stevie Nicks
25. [+3] Lioness: Hidden Treasures – Amy Winehouse
26. [+13] 21 – Adele
27. [+9] Dancing Queen – Cher
28. [-11] Bad Animals – HEART
29. [=] Devotion – Jessie Ware
30. [re] Love + Fear – MARINA
31. [re] The Wild Heart – Stevie Nicks
32. [-10] Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
33. [-13] 25 – Adele
34. [re] Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
35. [re] Hounds of Love – Kate Bush
36. [re] Ultraviolence – Lana Del Rey
37. [-10] Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks
38. [re] The Other Side of the Mirror – Stevie Nicks
39. [re] Bloom – Troye Sivan
40. [re] 19 – Adele

HEART SCORE FIRST NUMBER-ONE WITH THEIR SELF-TITLED RELEASE FROM 1985!

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HEART land their first No.1 album on L.dK Weekly as their self-titled record – originally released in 1985 – debuts at the top spot!

HEART not only log their first No.1, but also their best sales week ever. Their previous peak came in August 2017 as Bad Animals (1987) moved 40,000 in a single frame.

The band – fronted by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson – previously reached a high of No.6 in 2017 with the aforementioned Bad Animals – a record that has since been certified Platinum (300,000) and spent 38 weeks on the chart. This week Bad Animals is up 22-17

BTS’ Map of the Soul: 7 slips from No.1 to No.2 in its second week, moving 50,000 copies after opening last week with 123,000 sold.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell backtracks 2-3 as it nabs a 27th consecutive week inside the Top Five, this time moving 43,000 units. Rockwell has now been certified 8 x Platinum with total sales of 2,402,000 copies – only two other albums have matched or surpassed this feat, with those being Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born (10 x Platinum) and Del Rey’s own Lust for Life which is also 8 x Platinum with 2.45 million sold.

Two of 2020’s biggest selling albums complete the Top Five: Halsey’s Manic descends 3-4 (39,000) after a 3-week reign, and Ariana Grande’s K Bye for Now slips 4-5 (32,000) after peaking at No.2 for six straight frames.

Rising back from No.7 to No.6 is Florence + the Machine’s No.3 peaking How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful which moves 30,000 this week. It pushes Selena Gomez’ former No.1 Rare down 6-7 (29,000).

Celeste’s Compilation 1:1 slides to No.8 off its No.5 debut last week, moving 26,000 copies this time around.

Two of last year’s biggest sellers round out this week’s Top Ten: Taylor Swift bounces 11-9 with Lover (24,000) claiming a 25th frame inside the Top Ten, while Annie Lennox’ Medusa steps down 9-10 (23,000) and becomes the 10th longest-running Top Ten album ever with 28 frames spent inside the top tier.

Important Moves in the Top 40!

No.11 – Glasshouse / Jessie Ware’s Triple Platinum certified smash album Glasshouse flies 18-11 this week on L.dK Weekly, narrowly missing a return to the Top Ten. The album, which peaked at No.4 in both 2018 and 2019, has sold just under 1,000,000 units to date and if it ranks again on next week’s chart (almost a given) it will then become the 11th set to spend an entire year on the chart!

No.13 – Birdy / The British indie star’s self-titled record leaves the Top Ten after two weeks in the region: it debuted at No.4 before dropping to No.10 and now sinking to No.13. As consolation prize for departing the Top Ten however, it becomes Birdy’s second effort to be certified Silver (60,000).

No.30 – 1989 / Taylor Swift’s 2014 album 1989 also crosses the Silver-certification threshold this week meaning it has sold over 60,000 copies. 1989 is one of many albums that predates the chart. Swift has released two album since the chart launched in March 2017: reputation and Lover which have sold over 700,000 and 1.2 million respectively.

The Top 40

1. [NEW] Heart – HEART
2. [-1] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS
3. [-1] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
4. [-1] Manic – Halsey
5. [-1] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
6. [+1] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
7. [-1] Rare – Selena Gomez
8. [-3] Compilation 1:1 – Celeste
9. [+2] Lover – Taylor Swift
10. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox
11. Glasshouse – Jessie Ware
12. Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
13. Birdy – Birdy
14. Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
15. Fine Line – Harry Styles
16. She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
17. Bad Animals – HEART
18. The Whole Story – Kate Bush
19. Diva – Annie Lennox
20. 25 – Adele
21. A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
22. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
23. Heart of Stone – Cher
24. Sweetener – Ariana Grande
25. Infections of a Different Kind – AURORA
26. Tough Love – Jessie Ware
27. Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks
28. Lioness: Hidden Treasures – Amy Winehouse
29. Devotion – Jessie Ware
30. 1989 – Taylor Swift
31. Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods
32. A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
33. The Red Shoes – Kate Bush
34. Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey
35. Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac
36. Dancing Queen – Cher
37. Madame X – Madonna
38. Romance – Camila Cabello
39. 21 – Adele
40. Rock a Little – Stevie Nicks

BTS EARN FIRST NO.1 AND FASTEST-SELLING ALBUM OF 2020

Plus: Celeste debuts in the Top Five.

BTS score their first number one album on L.dK with the release of Map of the Soul: 7 earning the largest sales week of 2020!

BTS’ bow this week is a historic one: it marks the largest sales week of 2020 to date (as previously mentioned) as well as becoming the first non-English album to chart!

Biggest Week of 2020: As 7 opens with a stellar 123,000 haul it lands the greatest sales week of 2020, surpassing the opening week of Halsey’s Manic which debuted to 114,000 in the final week of January. It also marks the largest debut week since September 2019 when Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell sold 194,000 to debut at number one, and the largest week overall since Rockwell moved 138,000 in its seventh week at the summit in October last year.

Fastest-Selling Group Album since 2017: 123,000 in sales is enough to make it the fastest-selling by a group since December 2017 when Florence + the Machine’s Ceremonials soared to a 145,000-strong debut!

In addition to its impressive opening week figures, 7 ranks as the 11th bestselling record of 2020 to date.

Onto the rest of the L.dK Top 40… Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell ascends 3-2 with sales of 55,000 copies as its scores a 26th consecutive week in the Top Five! It’s just the fourth record to spend half a year in the Top Five, following Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born (31 weeks), her own Lust for Life (28 weeks) and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours (26 weeks).

Halsey dives 1-3 with Manic on sales of 46,000 units. The record has now sold 389,000 making it the singer’s bestselling effort to date, surpassing Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (345,000).

Ariana Grande’s K Bye for Now slides to No.4 after spending six consecutive weeks at its peak position of No.2 (36,000 sales). Meanwhile, entering the chart at No.5 is Brit-Winner Celeste whose Compilation 1:1 starts with 33,000 copies sold.

Selena Gomez’ Rare sticks at No.6 selling 32,000 copies and earning the star her first Platinum record, denoting sales of 300,000 units. Florence + the Machine then holds steady at No.7 with the No.3 peaking How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful selling 29,000 units, as Stevie Nicks’ Timespace compilation swings 10-8 with 24,000 sold. Annie Lennox meanwhile maintains her No.9 ranking as Medusa (20,000) collects a 30th successive week on L.dK, a tenure that includes 27 weeks in the Top Ten!

Finally, capping the Top Ten this week is Birdy’s self-titled set which drops 4-10 in its second week selling 19,000 copies.

Onto next week: HEART’S self-titled album is scheduled to impact the chart.

The Top 40

1. [NEW] Map of the Soul: 7 – BTS
2. [+1] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
3. [-2] Manic – Halsey
4. [-2] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
5. [NEW] Compilation 1:1 – Celeste
6. [=] Rare – Selena Gomez
7. [=] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
8. [+2] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
9. [=] Medusa – Annie Lennox
10. [-6] Birdy – Birdy
11. Lover – Taylor Swift
12. Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
13. Fine Line – Harry Styles
14. She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
15. The Whole Story – Kate Bush
16. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
17. Sweetener – Ariana Grande
18. Glasshouse – Jessie Ware
19. 21 – Adele
20. Diva – Annie Lennox
21. A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
22. Bad Animals – HEART
23. Rock a Little – Stevie Nicks
24. 1989 – Taylor Swift
25. Lioness: Hidden Treasures – Amy Winehouse
26. Camila – Camila Cabello
27. Heart of Stone – Cher
28. Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey
29. 25 – Adele
30. Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods
31. Dancing Queen – Cher
32. Petals for Armor, I – Hayley Williams
33. Devotion – Jessie Ware
34. Queen – Nicki Minaj
35. WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? – Billie Eilish
36. Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac
37. BADLANDS – Halsey
38. Tough Love – Jessie Ware
39. Born to Die: Paradise Edition – Lana Del Rey
40. Madame X – Madonna

HALSEY LOGS THIRD WEEK IN COMMAND AS MANIC GOES PLATINUM; BIRDY DEBUTS AT NO.4!

1. [=] Manic – Halsey (5)
2. [=] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande (8)
3. [=] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey (25)
4. [NEW] Birdy – Birdy (1)
5. [=] Fine Line – Harry Styles (10)
6. [-2] Rare – Selena Gomez (6)
7. [-1] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine (4)
8. [-1] Lover – Taylor Swift (26)
9. [+1] Medusa – Annie Lennox (29)
10. [-1] Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks (11)

Halsey’s Manic stays lodged at number one on the L.dK Chart for a third aggregate week, moving 64,000 units: the record has now become the longest-running chart topper of 2020, passing Stevie Nicks’ compilation Timespace and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell which have both spent two weeks at the summit this year!

Manic has now been certified Platinum in the United Kingdom, having sold 343,000 copies. It is the singer’s second release to attain this certification as her 2017 sophomore set Hopeless Fountain Kingdom has moved 345,000.

Ariana Grande’s K Bye for Now live album holds at its No2 peak for a sixth successive week, shifting 37,000 copies this time around. Lana Del Rey’s former sixteen-week number one Norman Fucking Rockwell stays put at No3 (35,000), and remains the bestselling album of 2020 to date with 418,000 sold – an honour it also earned in 2019, selling 1.88 million.

Birdy nabs her second Top Five album on L.dK as her 2011 self-titled set debuts at No4 shifting 31,000 copies. The British indie star previously reached No2 on the list with Beautiful Lies in 2017, an album that has since gone Platinum.

Two former number one albums follow: Harry Styles’ Fine Line holds at No5 (27,000) and Selena Gomez’ Rare slides 4-6 (27,000). Florence + the Machine’s No3 hit How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful slips 6-7 (21,000).

Taylor Swift’s Lover steps down a place to No8 in its 26th week on the tally, with sales of 20,000 copies in the most recent tracking week. Thanks to its most recent sales haul, Lover has now sold a total of 1.218 million copies – as of this week the record is certified 4 x Platinum! Fittingly for Taylor Swift, Lover is the 13th album to sell over 1.2 million units.

Annie Lennox’s Medusa ascends 10-9 selling 15,000 copies, pushing Stevie Nicks’ best-of Timespace down from No9 to No10 with 14,000 sold.

Important Moves in the Top 40

No.17 – Dancing Queen / Cher Cher’s ABBA covers album Dancing Queen peaked at No2 in October 2018 and has now crossed the 1 million sales mark in its 48th charting week. With sales of 1.005 million to date, Dancing Queen is the 16th bestselling LP ever, and is Cher’s bestselling release: it’s closest competitor is 1988’s Heart of Stone which is currently certified Platinum.

No.26 – 24 Karat Gold / Stevie Nicks Stevie Nicks’ 2014 release 24 Karat Gold goes 3 x Platinum this week, having sold 900,000 copies since its release. It is Nicks’ fifth album to sell over 900,000 following Crystal Visions (1.26 million), Bella Donna (1.12 million), The Other Side of the Mirror (990,000) and The Wild Heart (955,000).

The Top 40

1. Manic – Halsey
2. K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
3. Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
4. Birdy – Birdy
5. Fine Line – Harry Styles
6. Rare – Selena Gomez
7. HB, HB, HB – Florence + the Machine
8. Lover – Taylor Swift
9. Medusa – Annie Lennox
10. Timespace – Stevie Nicks
11. A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
12. She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
13. Petals for Armour, I – Hayley Williams
14. Diva – Annie Lennox
15. Heart of Stone – Cher
16. Infections of a Different Kind – AURORA
17. Dancing Queen – Cher
18. Bad Animals – Heart
19. Glasshouse – Jessie Ware
20. Love + Fear – MARINA
21. Never for Ever – Kate Bush
22. Ultraviolence – Lana Del Rey
23. Madame X – Madonna
24. Beautiful Lies – Birdy
25. Don’t Feed the Pop Monster – Broods
26. 24 Karat Gold – Stevie Nicks
27. A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
28. Tough Love – Jessie Ware
29. The Whole Story – Kate Bush
30. Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
31. 25 – Adele
32. Devotion – Jessie Ware
33. Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey
34. Pure Heroine – Lorde
35. Queen – Nicki Minaj
36. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
37. Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande
38. Sweetener – Ariana Grande
39. thank u, next – Ariana Grande
40. Romance – Camila Cabello

HALSEY returns to number one with Manic; Hayley Williams launches at No.8!

1. [+3/2] Manic – Halsey Peak: 1-2 wks. WoC: 4
2. [=/4] K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande. Peak: 2. WoC: 7
3. [-2] Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey. Peak: 1-16 wks. WoC: 24
4. [+4] Rare – Selena Gomez. Peak: 1. WoC: 5
5. [=] Fine Line – Harry Styles. Peak: 1. WoC: 9
6. [-3] How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine. Peak: 3. WoC: 3
7. [-1] Lover – Taylor Swift. Peak: 1. WoC: 25
8. [NEW] Petals for Armour, I – Hayley Williams. Peak: 1. WoC: 1
9. [-2] Timespace – Stevie Nicks. Peak: 1-3 wks. WoC: 10
10. [-1] Medusa – Annie Lennox. Peak: 1-3 wks. WoC: 28

Halsey’s Manic first topped the chart dated January 27 before falling to number four where it would stay for two weeks, and this time around it bounces back to number one with sales of 64,000 copies. Manic is the first album released in 2020 to spend more than one week at the summit, and has sold 277,000 since its release, making it the fourth bestselling album of the year to date.

For a fifth successive week Ariana Grande’s live album K Bye for Now sits in the runner-up spot, its current chart peak, moving 47,000 this frame. The set has now been certified 3 x Platinum with 328,000 total sales: it is Grande’s third album to achieve this following Sweetener (1.4 million) and Thank u, next (1 million).

Three former number one albums complete the Top Five, led by Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell which slides to number three (41,000 sold) after a total of sixteen weeks atop the tally – the longest command in chart history. Leaping from number eight to number four is Selena Gomez’ Rare which spent a week at the top in January (39,000) and staying put at number five is Harry Styles’ Fine Line (36,000).

Florence + the Machine see their 2015 effort How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful dive 3-6 with 28,000 sold, wile Taylor Swift’s Lover backtracks 6-7 selling 24,000 units.

Hayley Williams pays her first visit to the L.dK Chart as her solo EP Petals for Armour, I premieres at number eight with sales of 22,000 units. Stevie Nicks and Annie Lennox round out the Top Ten with Timespace diving 7-9 (21,000) and Medusa retreating 9-10 (19,000).

Important Moves in the Top 40

No.14 – Little Earthquakes / Tori Amos Tori Amos’ 1992 debut album Little Earthquakes repeats at number fourteen in its ninth charting week after peaking at number two for two weeks in November 2019. The alternative set is now certified 2 x Platinum – it has sold 48,000 this year.

No.15 – Honeymoon / Lana Del Rey Although it predates the L.dK Chart by almost two whole years, Honeymoon managed to become a Top Ten hit where it peaked at number six. With its recent sales haul it becomes Lana Del Rey’s fourth record to sell over 200,000 copies – her other greatest LP’s are Lust for Life (2.4 million), Norman Fucking Rockwell (2.2 million) and Born to Die: Paradise Edition (700,000).

No.21 – Stevie Nicks / The Other Side of the Mirror Only a handful of albums have managed to spend an entire year on the L.dK ranking, and this week Stevie Nicks’ 1989 release The Other Side of the Mirror becomes the tenth such record. Mirror has sold just shy of 1,000,000 copies – a milestone it will likely soon surpass – and is one of the most successful albums ever released. It became the first album to spend five weeks atop the list in 2017 and was once named the fastest-selling album of all time! Perhaps even more impressive is that Mirror is Nicks’ third album to live for a year on the tally: Bella Donna (1981) is the longest-charting album ever with 76 weeks, while The Wild Heart has placed somewhere on the list for 63 turns. Nicks’ 1985 LP Rock a Little is 50 weeks into its chart tenure, and shall likely be the next record to celebrate a year in the list!

The Top 40

1. Manic – Halsey
2. K Bye for Now – Ariana Grande
3. Norman Fucking Rockwell – Lana Del Rey
4. Rare – Selena Gomez
5. Fine Line – Harry Styles
6. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful – Florence + the Machine
7. Lover – Taylor Swift
8. Petals for Armour, I – Hayley Williams
9. Timespace: the Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks
10. Medusa – Annie Lennox
11. Lust for Life – Lana Del Rey
12. Thank u, Next – Ariana Grande
13. She’s so Unusual – Cyndi Lauper
14. Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos
15. Honeymoon – Lana Del Rey
16. Shake the Spirit – Elle King
17. Born to Die: Paradise Edition – Lana Del Rey
18. 25 – Adele
19. Romance – Camila Cabello
20. Rock a Little – Stevie Nicks
21. Dancing Queen – Cher
22. Madame x – Madonna
23. A Different Kind of Human – AURORA
24. Sweetener – Ariana Grande
25. Hounds of Love – Kate Bush
26. Dangerous Woman – Ariana Grande
27. Infections of a Different Kind – AURORA
28. Diva – Annie Lennox
29. Ultraviolence – Lana Del Rey
30. A Star is Born – Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
31. Love + Fear – MARINA
32. Supervision – La Roux
33. Bella Donna – Stevie Nicks
34. High Road – Kesha
35. The Other Side of the Mirror – Stevie Nicks
36. Greatest Hits – Fleetwood Mac
37. The Red Shoes – Kate Bush
38. The Wild Heart – Stevie Nicks
39. Tango in the Night – Fleetwood Mac
40. The Sensual World – Kate Bush