Lana Del Rey’s Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd debuts at No.1!

Ocean Blvd is Del Rey’s fifth chart-topper, and the fastest-selling album in almost eighteen months.

Lana Del Rey’s highly-anticipated Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Bld – her first album since Blue Banisters in October 2021 – roars straight to the summit of the L.dK Weekly Top 50, as expected.

The album had been predicted to sell roughly 200,000 units in its opening stanza, which would have made it the fastest-selling LP of the year, and earn it the biggest debut since Taylor Swift’s Midnights opened to 277,000 units in October 2022. Ocean Blvd ended up blowing past those forecasts, and moving 305,000 copies in its first seven days. This figure is comprised of 201,000 pure sales, and 104,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album. This makes it both the fastest-selling album of 2023 to date, and the fastest-selling album since Adele’s 30 debuted with 650,000 sold in November 2021.

Del Rey’s 2nd Best Debut: With 305,000 sold, Ocean Blvd announces itself as the singer’s second-fastest-selling album, behind only Lust for Life which opened to a then-record-breaking 639,000 units in July 2017. It flies past last year’s Blue Banisters (267,000) and Chemtrails Over the Country Club (160,000), while alsop topping her 2019 magnum opus Norman Fucking Rockwell! (194,000).

Overall, Ocean Blvd ranks as the 3rd fastest-selling album of the decade, and 7th of all time.

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. … Ocean Blvd , Lana Del Rey – 305,000
8. Future Nostalgia , Dua Lipa – 289,000
9. Midnights , Taylor Swift – 277,000
10. Harry’s House , Harry Styles – 274,000

With Ocean Blvd, Del Rey captures her fifth leader on L.dK Weekly. It joins Lust for Life (eleven weeks); Norman Fucking Rockwell! (twenty-five weeks); Chemtrails Over the Country Club (nine weeks); and Blue Banisters (three weeks). Del Rey boasts the second most number one albums, behind Taylor Swift who has sent seven record to the top of the charts.

Ocean Bld is also Del Rey’s landmark tenth Top Ten hit, as she also reached the tier with Born to Die: Paradise Edition (No.2); Ultraviolence (No.8); Honeymoon (No.4); The Unreleased Collection (No.3); and Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (No.3).

Basking in the glory of Ocean Blvd, Del Rey’s catalogue saw a huge spike in sales this week. Norman Fucking Rockwell! zooms 16-6 to capture a record-padding 140th week inside the Top Ten, selling 40,000 copies (up 66 percent); Lust for Life hikes 31-18 (16,000 units); Born to Die: Paradise Edition soars 38-20 (15,000 units); Ultraviolence shoots 39-26 (12,000 units); Chemtrails Over the Country Club leaps 40-27 (12,000 units); Blue Banisters bolts 48-35 (9,000 units); and Honeymoon re-enters at No.37 (8,000 units).

The afforementioned Lust for Life makes history this week, as it becomes just the 8th album to be certified Diamond, denoting sales of over 3 million units. It is the singer’s second release to achieve this, following Norman Fucking Rockwell!, which has sold 5.97 million copies to date.

Selling a total of 417,000 albums this week, Lana Del Rey lands as the most popular artist of the week by a huge margin!

Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE slides to No.2 after five non-consecutive weeks at number-one. The album sold 73,000 units this week (down 11 percent).

Paramore’s This is Why bumps 4-3, returning to its highpoint, with 53,000 copies sold (down 2 percent). The album has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.

Rounding out the Top Five, Caroline Polachek’s No.2-peaking Desire, I Want to Turn Into You falls 3-4 with 51,000 sold (down 15 percent), and Miley Cyrus’s chart-topping Endless Summer Vacation descends 2-5 on sales of 47,000 units (down 24 percent).

Outside the Top Five: First Aid Kit’s Palomino remains at No.7 after peaking at No.2 (35,000 sold – up 2 percent); Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark stays at No.8 after spending a total of twelve weeks at number-one (35,000 sold – up 9 percent); Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 jumps 11-9 to nab a 69th week inside the Top Ten (27,000 units – on par with last week); and Panic! at the Disco’s No.2-peaking Death of a Bachelor dives 5-10 (24,000 units – down 35 percent).

Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? should have no trouble holding onto its crown for a second week. The album is currently predicted to sell between 120-140,000 copies in its sophomore frame.

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Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.11 – The Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s jazz-infused effort jumps up from No.17 to reach a new peak this week, passing its prior highpoint of No.12. It simultaneously passes Night Ride Home to become Mitchell’s fourth highest-selling album, behind Blue (2.72 million), Court and Spark (2.46 million), and Hejira (813,000) – it has sold 357,000 to date.

No.12 – Love and Money / Katie Melua’s ninth studio album debuts with sales of 22,000 copies. It marks a slow start for the follow-up to Album No.8, which debuted and peaked at No.2 in October 2021, went on to sell over 800,000 copies, and charted for a total of 82 weeks. No.8 re-enters at No.50 this week with 6,000 copies sold.

No.22 – Viva Las Vengeance / Panic! at the Disco’s 2022 release has now become their latest to be certified Gold for selling more than 100,000 copies. It marks their landmark fifth Gold record.

No.30 – evermore / Taylor Swift’s wintery ninth studio album is undeniably one of the most successful albums of all time. Between spending 15 weeks at the chart apex, and lasting a staggering 91 weeks inside the Top Ten, the album announced itself as a true classic. evermore has now become only the third album in history to be certified 16 x Platinum, denoting sales exceeding 4.8 million copies. Only Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (5.97 million), and Swift’s own folklore (5.33 million) have sold more.

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

Beyonce reclaims No.1 spot for fifth week!

Plus: New certifications for Caroline Polachek & Joni Mitchell; Tommy Le Froy open at No.9!

Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE rebounds 2-1 for a fifth cumulative week in pole position, selling 82,000 copies in the most recent tracking week (up 8 percent). The album has now sold over 600,000 units to date, becoming the star’s second album to achieve multi-platinum status, following the Double-Platinum hit Lemonade.

Miley Cyrus’s Endless Summer Vacation slips to No.2 after becoming her secnd chart-topper last week, selling 62,000 copies in its sophomore frame – down 49 percent.

Caroline Polachek’s newly-Platinum-minted Desire, I Want to Turn Into You rebounds 4-3 following three weeks at the No.2 spot. It sold 60,000 this week, matching last week’s haul.

Paramore’s No.3-peaking This is Why recovers one spot to No.4 on sales of 54,000 copies (down 5 percent).

Panic! at the Disco continue to host multiple albums inside the Top Ten of the L.dK Weekly Top 50. Death of a Bachelor is the front-runner, dropping two spots to No.5, with 37,000 sold (down 42 percent); Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die follows at No.7, down from No.6 (33,000 units – down 41 percent); and Viva Las Vengeance caps the Top Ten, falling one spot from its No.9 peak (29,000 units – down 17 percent).

Outside the Top Five: First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino rebounds 8-6 (34,000 units – down 11 percent), and Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark ascends 10-8 (32,000 units – down 6 percent). The latter album has now been certified 8 x Platinum, denoting sales of over 2.4 million copies, and is Mitchell’s second record to achieve this. It follows Blue which was recently certified 9 x Platinum.

Indie duo Tommy Le Froy score their first Top Ten hit as their EP Rivals opens at No.9, selling 31,000 copies in its first week.

Onto Next Week: Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? is headed for a hefty debut on the L.dK Weekly Top 50. It has already racked up sales of over 160,000 copies over the weekend – making it the year’s fastest-selling album yet – and could land a debut north of 200,000 units

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Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.11 – 30 / Adele’s latest record-breaking smash has now added yet another notch to its burgeoning belt. It has now become only the 4th album in history to be certified 15 x Platinum for moving in excess of 4.5 million units. It joins Taylor Swift’s evermore (4.79 million) and folklore (5.32 million), and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (5.93 million).

No.14 – Come Get Your Wife / Elle King’s third studio album debuted at No.1 in January, and spent two weeks at the top spot. Now, it joins her two previous efforts in selling over 300,000 copies to be certified Platinum.

No.41 – Pretty. Odd. / Panic! at the Disco’s sophomore album has now become their latest Gold-certified hit. It joins fellow Gold hits Death of a Bachelor & Pray for the Wicked, and the Platinum record Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die.

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

Panic! at the Disco dominate following their farewell tour!

Plus: Miley Cyrus scores her second number-one album with Endless Summer Vacation.

Following their last ever live show in Manchester on Friday 10th, Panic! at the Disco see their entire catalogue surge on the L.dK Weekly Top 50. The charge is led by 2015’s Death of a Bachelor – which topped out at No.9 in 2017 – re-entering at a brand new peak position of No.3, on sales of 64,000 copies (up 1,180 percent from the previous week).

2013’s Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die – Panic!’s lone chart-topping album – surges 32-6 on sales of 56,000 copies (up 600 percent), while Pray for the Wicked returns at No.7 with 43,000 sold (up 975 percent) after peaking at No.2 in 2017.

Last year’s Viva Las Vengeance makes its first appearance in the Top Ten, re-appearing at No.9, selling 35,000 units (up 1,650 percent). The album – now certified Silver for moving over 60,000 copies – debuted and peaked at No.11 in 2022.

Beyond the Top Ten: 2008’s Pretty. Odd. re-enters at No.28 with 10,000 sold after previously reaching No.5; and their No.11-peaking debut from 2005 – A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – jumps back onto the list at No.44 on sales of 7,000 copies.

Overall, Panic! sold a whopping 220,000 albums in just the past week, making them the most successful act of the timeframe.

With the conclusion of their farewell tour this week, Brendon Urie’s solo project goes out on a high. The outfit has sold over a million albums to date, while seven Top Ten hits, four of which reached the Top Five.

Miley Cyrus collects her second number-one album as Endless Summer Vacation opens to sales of 122,000 copies – this number is comprised of 106,000 pure sales and a further 16,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album. The impressive debut makes it the fastest-selling album since Taylor Swift’s Midnights debuted with 277,000 sold in October 2022, while also scoring it the largest sales week since the chart dated 05 December 2022, when Swift’s Midnights moved 131,000 in its sixth week in pole position.

Endless is Cyrus’s second album to hit the top spot, following Plastic Hearts which ruled for two weeks in 2020. Plastic has sold over 2.44 million copies to date, and this week bounces 30-19, selling 15,000 copies.

Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE slips to No.2 after four weeks at the summit, moving 76,000 copies (down 14 percent); Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You descends to No.4 after peaking in the runner-up spot for three weeks, moving 60,000 units (down 19 percent); Paramore’s This is Why rounds out the Top Five, falling from its No.3 peak after two weeks, selling 57,000 units (up 1 percent). Why matches its best sales week, first achieved in its debut frame.

Outside the Top Five: First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino slides 4-8 (38,000 sold – up 3 percent), and Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-ruler Court and Spark caps the Top Ten, tumbling 5-10 (34,000 sold – down 8 percent).

Onto Next Week: Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE could make a return to the No.1 spot, selling over 75,000 copies. A second week at the summit for Miley Cyrus’s Endless Summer Vacation is also not out of the question, with the album currently predicted to sell roughly 70,000 units in its sophomore frame. Indie duo Tommy Le Froy could also be bound for a Top 20 debut with their latest EP rivals, currently tracking sell roughly 15,000 copies in its opening week.

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Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.11 – 30 / Adele’s fourth studio album is certainly one for the history books. It stands as the fastest-selling album of all time (650,000 in its debut week), and holds the records for the fastest album to sell 1 million (three weeks), 2 million (twelve weeks), 3 million (twenty-nine weeks), and 4 million copies (fifty-five weeks). This marks the juggernaut’s first appearance outside of the Top Ten, after sixty-eight weeks in the region, fifty-seven of which were spent inside the Top Five, and seventeen of which were spent at number-one. To date, 30 has moved 4.48 million copies, making it the 3rd bestselling album of the decade, and the 4th bestselling album of all time.

No.17 – This Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-infused LP has now become her sixth album to be certified Platinum for selling in excess of 300,000 copies. Hissing is currently Mitchell’s fifth bestselling album, ranking just behind 1994’s Night Ride Home (335,000).

No.23 – Girl of My Dreams / Fletcher – who supported Panic! on their final tour – pays her first visit to the L.dK Weekly Top 50 with her debut album, selling 12,000 copies.

No.26 – Beyonce / The star’s self-titled album has now sold over 300,000 units, becoming her third album to be certified Platinum.

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

Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE celebrates a month at number-one!

Plus: The Kooks break new ground, and Lana Del Rey re-enters Top Ten!

Beyonce logs a fourth consecutive week at number-one on the L.dK Weekly Top 50 with RENAISSANCE. The album sold 88,000 copies (down 3 percent) in the latest tracking week.

Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You nabs a third week at its No.2 highpoint, shifting a further 74,000 copies (down 3 percent). The album now ranks among the Top Ten bestselling albums of 2023 to date, surpassing Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! at No.10, which has sold 223,000 since the start of the year.

Paramore’s Gold-certified This is Why rises 4-3, returning to its highest position. It sold 56,000 this week (up 51 percent), falling just shy of the album’s best weekly haul of 57,000 copies, achieved in its debut frame.

First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino lifts 5-4 with 37,000 sold (up 6 percent); and Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark dips 3-5, also on sales of 37,000 copies (down 7 percent), to round out the Top Five.

Beyond the Top Five: Elle King’s former-chart-topper Come Get Your Wife rebounds 8-6 (30,000 sold – up 11 percent); Adele’s 30 keeps at No.7 after seventeen weeks in pole position (27,000 units – on par with last week); and Rihanna’s No.2-hit ANTI dips 6-8 (27,000 units – down 7 percent).

The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far, which previously peaked at No.3, maintains its rank from last week of No.9 (25,000 units – up 4 percent). The album has now become the first from the outfit to be certified Triple Platinum, denoting sales of over 900,000 copies.

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! ascends 11-10 after the singer picked up the Visionary Award at Billboard’s recent Women in Music Event. The album sold 24,000 copies this week (up 14 percent) and has sold over 5.89 million to date. In addition, NFR! scores a record-padding 139th week inside the Top Ten!

Onto Next Week: Miley Cyrus’s Endless Summer Vacation seems destined for glory, with current forecasts suggesting a debut between 100-125,000 units. Panic! At the Disco could also make a dent in the Top Ten following their last ever performance in Manchester over the weekend, with Death of a Bachelor currently looking to sell over 40,000 units, and Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die aiming for over 30,000; their Pray for the Wicked could also enter the Top Ten with over 25,000 sold.

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Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.11 – Midnights / Taylor Swift’s tenth studio album departs the Top Ten for the first time, sinking 10-11 in its 20th charting week, selling 24,000 units (up 4 percent). Midnights became the fastest-selling album of 2022 upon its release (277,000 sold), spent twelve non-consecutive weeks at the top spot, and with 1.72 million copies sold, it ranks as Swift’s third bestselling release, behind only folklore (5.29 million) and evermore (4.77 million). While the album has already outsold 2019’s Lover (1.66 million), and 2021’s Red (Taylor’s Version) (941,000), it has fallen short of those albums tenrues inside the Top Ten. Red remained in the region for its first twenty weeks, while Lover racked up twenty-eight appearances in the top tier. In addition to its impressive accolades mentioned earlier, Midnights also ranks as the year’s bestselling album to date, with 471,000 copies sold.

No.24 – Tracy Chapman / Picking up two spots this week, and selling 9,000 copies, Tracy Chapman’s eponymous debut album has now become the singer’s first to be certified 4 x Platinum for selling over 1.2 million copies. It currently ranks as the 45th bestselling album of all time, just behind Stevie Nicks’s The Other Side of the Mirror (1.27 million).

No.25 – Positions / Ariana Grande’s sixth studio album, which first debuted in November 2020, has now become the singer’s second album, and first since 2018’s Sweetener to spend a total of 100 weeks inside the Top 50. Her two releases in the intermin – 2019’s thank u, next, and 2020’s k bye for now – SWT Live – remained on the ranking for seventy and forty weeks, respectively.

No.32 – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die / Panic! At the Disco’s lone chart-topping album returns to the charts ahead of their Manchester farewell concert, selling 8,000 copies. The album has sold 359,000 units to date, and is their most successful record.

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

Beyonce continues to dominate with RENAISSANCE!

Plus: New certifications for Caroline Polachek, Paramore & First Aid Kit.

Beyonce adds a third successive week at number-one on the L.dK Weekly Top 50 with RENAISSANCE. The album records its biggest sales week to date, increasing by 24 percent to sell 91,000 copies in the latest tracking period.

RENAISSANCE has now been certified Platinum for selling more than 300,000 copies since its release. It follows Beyonce’s Lemonade (2 x Platinum) as her secnd album to achieve this feat.

Caroline Polachek holds at her No.2 peak with Desire, I Want to Turn Into You. The album sports a 10 percent increase in sales, moving 77,000 units. It has now sold over 150,000 to date, making it Polachek’s first Gold-certified record.

Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark reverses course 5-3 on sales of 39,000 copies (up 2 percent) as it tallies a 40th consecutive week inside the Top Five, dating to its No.2 debut in June 2022.

Paramore’s This is Why rebounds 7-4 with 37,000 sold (up 23 percent) after it debuted at No.3 two weeks ago. The album has now been certified Gold for selling upwards of 100,000 units – the band’s first to earn the distinction.

First Aid Kit round out the Top Five as the No.5-peaking Palomino descends 3-5 with 35,000 sold (down 22 percent). The hit has now sold just over 600,000 copies, making it the band’s first Multi-Platinum hit!

Outside the Top Five: Rihanna’s ANTI drops 4-6 after debuting and peaking at No.2 two weeks ago (29,000 units – down 31 percent); Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 ticks 8-7 (27,000 units – up 8 percent); Elle King’s chart-topping Come Get Your Wife descends 6-8 (27,000 units – down 10 percent); The Kooks’s No.3-peaking The Best of … So Far elevates 10-9 (24,000 units – even with last week).

Taylor Swift’s Midnights anchors the Top Ten, falling 9-10 in its 19th charting frame (23,000 units – down 4 percent). Midnights previously spent twelve weeks in pole position.

Onto Next Week: Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE could be bound for a fourth straight week at the summit with sales of over 90,000 copies. Caroline Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You could also be in with a shot, with current forecasts suggesting a haul of upwards of 80,000 units.

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Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.28 – Bad Girls / Donna Summer’s landmark record reached No.11 in January, and has performed respectably since. This week, as the album dips 24-28 with 8,000 sold, it becomes the singer’s first Gold-certified record, having sold more than 100,000 copies.

No.32 – How to Let Go / Sigrid’s sophomore studio album rises 33-32 this week with 8,000 copies sold. It has now become the Norweigan singer’s first release to be certified Multi-Platinum for selling over 600,000 copies.

No.33 – The Highlights / The Weeknd’s 2021 compilation record re-enters with 8,000 sold following the release of the Ariana Grande remix of “Die For You”. The collection has sold over 660,000 copies to date.

No.37 – In These Silent Days / Brandi Carlile’s No.7-peaking album falls to No.37 this week with 7,000 copies sold. It has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 units.

No.39 – Harry’s House / Harry Styles’s third studio album becomes the 63rd album in history to sell over a million copies! With this, he becomes the first male artist in history to boast 2 million-selling albums. His sophomore record – Fine Line – has sold 1.65 million to date.

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

Beyonce holds at No.1 with RENAISSANCE!

Plus: Caroline Polachek’s Desire I Want to Turn Into You makes record-breaking leap to No.2!

Beyonce spends a second consecutive week at number-one on the L.dK Weekly Top 50 with RENAISSANCE. The album sold a further 73,000 units this week, dipping just 7 percent from the previous week’s haul of 79,000.

Caroline Polachek hurtles 50-2 with Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, setting the record for the largest single-week movement in chart history, surpassing Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love which rocketed 50-3 in June 2022. Desire sold 70,000 in its first full week on sale, up 1,300 percent from the week before. The album has also already been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies.

Rounding out the Top Five: First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino bolts 6-3 on sales of 45,000 units (up 18 percent); Rihanna’s newly-Gold-certified ANTI descends 2-4 in its second week, selling 42,000 copies (down 34 percent); and Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-ruler Court and Spark sinks 4-5 with 38,000 sold (down 14 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Elle King’s Come Get Your Wife steps down 5-6 after debuting at No.1 a month ago (30,000 sold – down 29 percent); Paramore’s This is Why slides to No.7 following its No.3 launch last week (30,000 sold – down 48 percent); Adele’s seventeen-week-leader 30 slips 7-8 (25,000 units – down 19 percenet); Taylor Swift’s twelve-week-leader Midnights falls 8-9 (24,000 units – down 8 percent); and The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far moves 9-10 (24,000 units – on par with last week).

Onto Next Week: Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE looks set for a third week in pole position, with anticipated sales of 70-80,000 units. Polachek’s Desire could also be in contention for the top spot, with forecasted sales of 60-70,000 units.

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Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.18 – Lemonade / Beyonce’s critically-acclaimed record returns to the Top 20 amidst the singer’s latest spate of success. To date, Lemonade has sold 609,000 copies, making it Beyonce’s first album to be certified 2 x Platinum!

No.21 – Blue / Joni Mitchell’s magnum opus has now become the Canadian songwriter’s first release to spend a full two years (104 weeks) inside the Top 50. Blue is 25th album in history to achieve this, and has sold 2.67 million copies to date.

No.35 – Future Nostalgia / Dua Lipa’s disco-pop masterpiece was the No.2 biggest hit of 2020, topping the chart for eight consecutive weeks, and selling in excess of 2 million copies. Since 2020, the album has continued to rack up sales, and has now been certified 12 x Platinum for exceeding sales of 3.6 million copies. Future is only the sixth album in history to achieve this, following Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (19 x Platinum); Taylor Swift’s folklore (17 x Platinum) and evermore (15 x Platinum); Adele’s 30 (14 x Platinum); and Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST (12 x Platinum).

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

Beyonce earns first number-one record with RENAISSANCE!

Plus: Rihanna’s ANTI hits No.2 following SuperBowl performance, and Paramore’s This is Why debuts at No.3!

Beyonce rises to the summit of the L.dK Weekly Top 50 for the first time ever, as RENAISSANCE rises 3-1. It re-entered last week following the 65th Grammy Awards, selling 45,000 copies in the aftermath. This week, the album surged 75 percent to sell a further 79,000 units. RENAISSANCE is Beyonce’s first chart-topper after both Lemonade and her self-titled set peaked in the runner-up spot in 2017.

79,000 units also marks the greatest sales week of the year to date, and the largest haul since the chart dated December 19th 2022, when Taylor Swift’s Midnights moved 96,000 copies.

RENAISSANCE additionally enters the list of the ten bestselling hits of the year so far, at No.10 with 126,000 sold since the start of the year. It sits just behind Joni Mitchell’s Hejira which has moved 151,000 in the same period.

Rihanna pays her first visit to the Top 50 in the wake of her SuperBowl performance on Sunday night. ANTI (2015) debuts at No.2 on sales of 64,000 copies. With over 60,000 sold in its first week, the album has already been certified Silver.

Paramore likewise score their first showing on the Top 50 as This is Why – the outfit’s first release in five years – bows at No.3 on combined sales of 57,000 copies (comprising of 56,000 pure sales, and 1,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album’s release).

Two previous albums from the band also enter the chart this week: After Laughter at No.13 with 20,000 sold, and their eponymous collection at No.24 with 12,000 sold.

Rounding out the Top Five: Joni Mitchell’s twelve-week-leader Court and Spark drops 2-4 with 44,000 sold (down 4 percent), and Elle King’s Come Get Your Wife slides to No.5 after two weeks at number-one, moving 42,000 copies (down 30 percent).

Outside the Top Five: First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino descends 5-6 (38,000 units – down 2 percent); Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 reverses course 4-7 (31,000 units – down 22 percent); Taylor Swift’s Midnights drops 6-8 after twelve weeks in pole position (26,000 units – down 13 percent); The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far slips 8-9 after reaching No.3 (24,000 units – on par with last week); and Swift’s evermore moves 9-10 (22,000 units – even with last week).

Onto Next Week: Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE could be bound for a second week at the top spot, currently tracking to sell anywhere between 60-80,000 copies. However, it faces fierce competition from Caroline Polachek’s newly released Desire, I Want to Turn Into You. The album, which debuts this week at No.50 after an abridged first week of sales, could prove to be the singer’s breakout hit, and is currently pacing to sell over 70,000 in its first full week. It could also break the record for the largest single-week movement in chart history – currently held by Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love which roared 50-3 in June 2022.

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Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.20– Plastic Hearts / Miley Cyrus’s biggest hit has now become her first release to sell over 2.4 million copies, earning it 8 x Platinum status. Only fifteen other albums in history have achieved this.

No.40 – Glasshouse / While this album only peaked at No.4 in 2018, it would become the defining smash hit of Jessie Ware’s career, having charted for 167 weeks to date. It has sold exactly two million copies to date, becoming the twenty-sixth album to sell as many units.

No.46 – Blue Banisters / Lana Del Rey’s latest album picks up three spots to No.46 in its 67th charting week, selling 6,000 copies to bring its total lifetime sales to a whopping 1.803 million. It marks Del Rey’s fourth album to be certified at least 6 x Platinum, following Norman Fucking Rockwell! (19 x Platinum); Lust for Life (9 x Platinum); and Chemtrails Over the Country Club (7 x Platinum).

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

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

Elle King rules for a second week; the Grammys cause major disruption!

Albums from Adele, Beyonce, Brandi Carlile & Harry Styles make gains following the 65th Grammy Awards!

For a second consecutive week, Elle King’s third studio album Come Get Your Wife, holds the No.1 position on the L.dK Weekly Top 50. It declined just 19 percent to sell 60,000 copies in its sophomore frame, earning it Gold status for selling over 130,000 to date.

Wife is now King’s first effort to spend multiple weeks in pole position, surpassing Love Stuff which enjoyed a single week at the top in 2017.

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark stays at No.2 after twelve weeks at the summit, selling 46,000 copies (down 10 percent).

Beyonce leads this year’s Grammys spike, as last year’s RENAISSANCE re-enters at a new peak position of No.3, shifting 45,000 copies (up from a negligible amount the week before). RENAISSANCE initially debuted and peaked at No.4 upon its release in August 2022, and promptly vanished from the list after just two weeks.

With this week’s sales figures, the LP earns Gold status, with total sales of 118,000 to date. It is Beyonce’s fourth album to achieve this.

RENAISSANCE and its tracks picked up the awards for Best Dance Recording (‘Break My Soul’); Best Dance / Electronica Album (RENAISSANCE); Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (‘Plastic off the Sofa’); and Best R&B Song (‘Cuff It’). The album also earned a nod for Album of the Year, while further tracks were nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best R&B Performance, and Best Song Written for Visual Media.

Also boosted by the announcement of her forthcoming world tour earlier in the week, Beyonce’s previous albums Lemonade and Beyonce return at No.18 (13,000 units) and No.33 (9,000 sold) respectively – both records peaked at No.2 in 2017.

Adele’s seventen-week-leader 30 leaps 7-4 following the singer’s night at the ceremony, selling 40,000 units (up 42 percent).

30‘s lead-off single ‘Easy On Me’ triumphed in the race for Best Pop Solo Performance, among nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Music Video. Parent album 30 was also considered for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album.

The rest of Adele’s catalogue largely improved this week, with 21 rising 38-32 (9,000 sold) and 19 re-entering at No.46 (6,000 sold). 25 dips from No.33 to No.39 with 7,000 sold.

First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino reverses course 4-5 with 39,000 sold (up 14 percent), as Taylor Swift’s twelve-week-ruler Midnights dives 3-6 on sales of 30,000 copies (down 30 percent). Swift’s evermore meanwhile tumbles 5-9 with 22,000 sold (down 29 percent).

Grammy champion Brandi Carlile debuts at No.7 with her seventh studio album, In These Silent Days, moving 29,000 copies. The album and its tracks took home for the awards for Best Rock Song & Best Rock Performance (‘Broken Horses’) and Best Americana Album (In These Silent Days). The album also picked up a nomination for Album of the Year, while further tracks were in the running for Record of the Year, Best American Roots Song, and Best Americana Performance.

The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far sinks 6-8 after reaching No.3 (24,000 sold – down 17 percent).

Finally, Harry Styles caps the Top Ten as this year’s Grammy Album of the Year, Harry’s House spikes 46-10 with 21,000 copies sold (up 250 percent). In addition to its major win, the album also took home the title of Best Pop Vocal Album. It’s lead single ‘As It Was’ was nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance & Best Music Video.

Onto Next Week: Elle King’s Come Get Your Wife could be in contention for a third week at the top of the charts, with expected sales of roughly 50,000 copies, but Beyonce’s RENAISSANCE appears as the more promising candidate as it continues to grow following the Grammys, currently looking to sell between 50,000 and 60,000 copies. However, both albums could be leapfrogged by Paramore’s newly released This Is Why which could debut with anywhere betwen 50,000 and 75,000 copies sold.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.17– Bad Girls / Donna Summer’s landmark record descends 13-7 after peaking at No.11 in late January, selling 14,000 copies. The album has now been certified Silver for selling over 60,000 units.

No.38 – Bloom / Troye Sivan’s sophomore studio album slips one spot to No.38 this week, selling 8,000 copies. The long-running hit has now become the first from a solo male artist to chart for a full two years, or 104 weeks! Bloom has sold over 1.06 million copies to date, ranking as the 3rd bestselling album by a male artist, behind Harry Styles’s Fine Line (1.65 million) and The Weeknd’s After Hours (1.49 million).

No.28 – The Very Best of Enya / The second compilation album from Irish singer-songwriter Enya attains Platinum status this week for selling more than 300,000 units.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

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

Elle King debuts at No.1 with Come Get Your Wife!

King scores her third straight Top Five album!

Country-rock star Elle King debuts at the pinnacle of the Weekly Top 50 with her third studio album Come Get Your Wife, thanks to combined sales of 74,000 copies, comprising of 67,000 pure sales and a further 7,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album’s release.

Wife is King’s third successive album to peak inside the Top Five, and second number-one hit, following the introductory Love Stuff which spent a week at the summit in 2017. Her 2018 sophomore set, Shake the Spirit, debuted and peaked at No.2, but with impressive first-week sales of 147,000 units!

The afforementioned albums both re-enter the Top 50 this week: Spirit returns at No.15 with 13,000 sold, and Love re-appears at No.17 with 12,000 sold.

To date, King has sold over 1.7 million albums, and racked up an impressive 117 week stay inside the Top 50 across her three albums.

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark ascends 3-2 on sales of 51,000 copies (up 21 percent). The album previously spent a whopping twelve weeks in command of the tally! Mitchell is also down 9-10 with the No.6-peaking Hejira, with 18,000 sold (even with last week).

Taylor Swift’s Midnights tumbles 1-3 after twelve non-consecutive weeks at the top spot, selling 43,000 copies (down 14 percent); fifteen-week-chart-topper evermore is also down 2-5 on sales of 31,000 units (down 34 percent).

Rounding out the Top Five, First Aid Kit’s No.2-peaking Palomino elevates 5-4 with 34,000 sold (up 9 percent).

Outside the Top Five: The Kooks’s No.3-peaking The Best of … So Far keeps again at No.6 (29,000 units – up 7 percent); Adele’s 30 dives 4-7 after seventeen weeks at number-one (28,000 units – down 22 percent); Arlo Parks’s No.3-hit Collapsed in Sunbeams retreats 7-8 (24,000 units – up 3 percent); Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! descends 8-9 in its record-extending 138th week in the Top Ten (21,000 units – up 5 percent).

Onto Next Week: Elle King’s Come Get Your Wife could score a second frame atop the chart with sales of over 50,000 copies. However, with the Grammys set for Monday 6th, multiple albums could score large gains, and one (or even multiple) could pose a threat to the crown. Those records include: Adele’s 30, Beyonce’s Renaissance, Lizzo’s Special, Harry Styles’s Harry’s House, Doja Cat’s Planet Her, Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days, and many more!

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.14– Surrender / Maggie Roger’s sophomore studio album made its mark in 2022, topping the Top 50 for three weeks, and finishing as the 21st biggest album of the year! Now, it has become the 62nd album in history to sell over a million copies, having shifted 1.004 million units to date.

No.20 – Diva / After crossing the Diamond threshold last week, Annie Lennox’s debut solo album continues to break new ground. It has now become only the second album in history to chart for a full four years (208 weeks) on the L.dK Weekly Top 50. It follows Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna which has charted for 227 weeks to date.

No.28 – The Very Best of Enya / The second compilation album from Irish singer-songwriter Enya attains Platinum status this week for selling more than 300,000 units.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

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

Taylor Swift’s Midnights rules for twelfth week!

Midnights becomes the longest-running number one album since Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark; Miley Cyrus re-enters Top Ten!

Selling a further 50,000 copies (down 35 percent), Taylor Swift’s Midnights collects a twelfth cumulative week at the summit of the L.dK Weekly Top 50.

Midnights is now tied with Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark, and Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born – OST, as the fifth-longest-running number-one album of all time!

Swift also steals the No.2 spot this week with fifteen-week-leader evermore, on sales of 47,000 units (down 25 percent).

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark remains at No.3 on sales of 41,000 units (down 8 percent), and reverses course 7-9 with Hejira, selling 18,000 copies (down 22 percent).

Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 keeps at No.4 with 36,000 sold (down 8 percent); and First Aid Kit’s Palomino stays at No.5 after peaking at No.2, selling 31,000 units (on par with last week).

Outside the Top Five: The Kooks’s No.3-peaking The Best of … So Far holds at No.6 (27,000 units – up 13 percent), while Arlo Parks’s Collapsed in Sunbeams ascends 9-7 (23,000 units – up 15 percent).

Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! charts a record-padding 137th week in the Top Ten: stationary at No.8 this week (20,000 units – down 4 percent).

Miley Cyrus anchors the Top Ten this week as Plastic Hearts swings 13-10, earning its first appearance in the region since January 2022, moving 18,000 copies (up 12 percent). The jump in sales comes after Cyrus released her new single “Flowers” last week, which previews Endless Summer Vacation – due March 10th.

Since its release, Plastic has spent two weeks at No.1, charted for 111 weeks, including a fifty-one-week stay in the Top Ten. It has sold over 2.3 million copies and ranks as the 9th bestselling album of the decade.

Onto Next Week: Elle King should be bound to score her second chart-topping album with Come Get Your Wife. The country-flavoured release is set to sell over 60,000 in its opening stanza.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.21– The Whole Story / Kate Bush’s 1986 compilation album is is up two spots this week, with 10,000 sold, bringing its total sales to a whopping 2.7 million! This makes Story just the tenth record in history be certified at least 9 x Platinum.

No.42 – Diva / Annie Lennox’s solo debut album achieved immediate success upon its release, scoring a No.1 debut and eventually becoming the second-longest charting album of all time, with 207 weekly appearances to date. Now, Diva joins the exclusive Diamond Club, as it crosses the 3 million sales mark. Only six other albums have achieved this feat, and Diva is the first album released before the chart’s inception to join the exclusive list.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

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