Taylor Swift’s Midnights clocks in a fourth week at No.1!

Swift’s latest juggernaut goes Double Platinum this week, as First Aid Kit earn their First Top Five hit!

Taylor Swift’s Midnights logs a fourth successive week comfortably atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50, earning a further 128,000 units in its fourth term, representing a drop of 15.8% from the previous week when it sold 152,000 copies. It’s the biggest third-week sales haul for an album since Adele’s 30 drew 137,000 at the same point during its chart run.

Midnights has now sold 711,000 units since its release, becoming Swift’s newest Multi-Platinum hit! It joins a bevy of other albums, listed below:

• 2017 – reputation (2 x Platinum)
• 2019 – Lover (5 x Platinum)
• 2020 – folklore (16 x Platinum); evermore (13 x Platinum)
• 2021 – Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (2 x Platinum); Red (Taylor’s Version) (3 x Platinum)
• 2022 – Midnights (2 x Platinum)

Swift also takes the No.9 spot this week with evermore, which originally ruled for thirteen weeks in 2020-2021, selling 28,000 copies (even with last week).

Sigrid’s chart-topping sophomore set How to Let Go continues to perform well in the aftermath of the Norweigan star’s tour, selling a further 51,000 copies this week (down 24 percent). The singer’s debut album Sucker Punch – which also peaked at No.1 in 2019 – meanwhile descends 3-8 on sales of 33,000 units (down 34 percent).

British band The Kooks are up to a new high this week, as The Best of … So Far picks up three spots to No.3, passing its former peak of No.4. The collection sold 42,000 this week (up 16 percent).

Joni Mitchell’s eleven-week-leader Court and Spark holds steady at No.4, shifting 42,000 units (down 6 percent).

Swedish sister-duo First Aid Kit nab the No.5 spot with the debut of their fifth studio album, Palomino. The LP sold 36,000 this week, granting thegroup for their first Top Ten hit.

Outside the Top Five: Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler 30 lifts 8-6 following its 7 Grammy nominations this week, and celebrates a full year inside the Top Fifty, all of it having been spent inside the Top Ten (33,000 units – up 14 percent)! Mariah Carey’s No.6-peaking Greatest Hits bullets at No.7 (33,000 units – up 2 percent).

Madonna’s Celebration tumbles 5-10 after spending three weeks at its No.2 highpoint (27,000 units – down 36 percent). It has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights is currently gunning to sell upwards of 100,000 copies in its fifth week, all but ensuring it another week at the No.1 spot!

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.18 – Direct Hits / The Killers re-enter the Top 20 for the first time since the beginning of October with their 2013 compilation record. Hits has sold over 470,000 copies to date, and has so far peaked at No.16.

No.19 – Tracy Chapman / Chapman’s debut record initially seemed to be a flash in the pan, debuting at No.4 in late-November 2021, and quickly disappearing from the charts. But it would re-enter the Top Ten in February of this year, and two weeks later, in March, reach the No.1 spot where it would stay for a single week. Chapman has now become the singer’s first record to sell over a million copies – it is the 56th album in history to achieve this milestone.

No.26 – Greatest Hits / Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 best-of set ascends 29-26 (10,000 sold) as it tallies its milestone 156th week inside the Top 50. Only eight other albums have spent at least three years on the ranking, led by Stevie Nicks’s Bella Donna (218 weeks).

No.27 – The Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-flavoured record descends 22-27 after peaking at No.14. It is now Mitchell’s tenth record to be certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies.

No.31 – Harry’s House / Harry Styles’s third studio record bounces 46-31 this week on sales of 9,000 copies. It has now sold 900,000 units since its release in May, becoming Styles’s second album to do so, following Fine Line. This makes Styles the only male artist with multiple Triple Platinum records. Contemporaries The Weeknd, Troye Sivan & Joji, all boast one such album – After Hours (1.49 million); Bloom (1.02 million); and Nectar (915,000).

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 makes it three weeks at number-one!

Plus: Sigrid takes the No.2 & No.3 spots with How to Let Go & Sucker Punch.

Taylor Swift’s Midnights earns a third consecutive week atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50, pulling a further 152,000 units in its third term. That’s down just 1.3% from its sophomore haul of 154,000 copies, which followed its 277,000-strong opening. It’s the best third-week performance since Adele’s 30 moved 168,000 in its third frame, following its debut of 650,000 units, and hold-over draw of 206,000.

152,000: Midnights’s third week marks the fifth bestselling week of the year, behind its own first two weeks, and the bows of Harry Styles’s Harry’s House (274,000 units – chart dated 30 May), and Florence + the Machine’s Dance Fever (230,000 units – chart dated 23 May).

Midnights has now sold 583,000 copies to date, and should become Swift’s latest Multi-Platinum hit by next week!

Swift’s wintery evermore slides 5-9 this week with 28,000 units (down 25 percent). It has now spent a whopping 100 consecutive weeks inside the Top 50.

Sigrid celebrates a hugely successful week, basking in the glow of her UK Tour. How to Let Go, the singer’s sophomore album which debuted at No.1 in May, rockets 47-2, drawing 67,000 units – up 1,016 percent from the previous week! How has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.

The Norweigan star also appears at No.3 with 2019’s Sucker Punch – which also debuted at the top spot upon its release – on sales of 50,000 copies (up from a negligible amount the week before).

Don’t Kill My Vibe – the singer’s debut EP is No.27, moving 11,000 copies.

Joni Mitchell’s eleven-week-leader Court and Spark reverses course 3-4 with 45,000 copies sold (down 2 percent).

Madonna’s Celebration dives to No.5 after a total of three weeks at its No.2 highpoint, shifting 42,000 copies (down 35 percent).

Outside the Top Five: The Kooks retreat from their No.4 peak to No.6 with The Best of … So Far (36,000 units – down 7 percent); Mariah Carey’s Greatest Hits falls from its No.6 high to No.7 (32,000 units – down 9 percent); and Adele’s 30 maintains its rank of No.8 after seventeen weeks in pole position (29,000 units – up 4 percent).

The 1975 cap this week’s Top Ten as their chart-topping Being Funny in a Foreign Language sinks 9-10 in its fourth week (26,000 units – up 3 percent).

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights should easily score a fourth straight week at the summit, selling 125-150,000 copies.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.12 – Smithereens / American-Japanese singer Joji nabs his second Top 20 hit as his latest LP manages a No.12 debut with 24,000 units. Smithereens is the follow-up to 2020’s Nectar which debuted and peaked at No.2, selling 85,000 copies. Nectar re-enters at No.18 this week (14,000 sold), going Triple Platinuim in the process.

No.16 – Turbulent Indigo / It’s a double-whammy this week for Joni Mitchell’s 1994 rennaissance as it surges from No.30 to a new high of No.16 (15,000 units) and goes Gold in the same week, for selling over 100,000 units.

No.19 – Come Away With Me / The 2002 debut album from Norah Jones moves 16-19 this week (14,000 sold) and becomes the singer’s first album to be certified Triple Platinum for selling over 900,000 copies.

No.22 – The Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-influenced piece moves 19-22 (13,000 units) after hitting No.14 last month and becomes Mitchell’s latest piece to be certified Silver, denoting sales exceeding 60,000 copies.

No.35 – For the Roses / Another chart appearance for Joni Mitchell as her 1972 record appears for the first time at No.35, selling 9,000 copies following its 50th anniversary earlier this week.

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 second week!

Swift’s latest blockbuster blows past Platinum status!

Taylor Swift’s Midnights logs a second week atop the L.dK Weekly Top 50, as the set draws 154,000 units in its second week on sale. That’s down down 44.5% from its opening sum of 277,000 copies. It’s the biggest second-week haul since Adele’s 30 moved 206,000 in its sophomore frame, following its debut with 650,000 a week prior.

154,000: To put that number into perspective, it is the greatest non-debut sales week of the year, and ranks fourth overall, behind only its own opening, and the bows of Harry Styles’s Harry’s House (274,000 units – chart dated 30 May), and Florence + the Machine’s Dance Fever (230,000 units – chart dated 23 May).

Midnights has now sold 431,000 copies to date, earning the singer her seventh Platinum-certified hit to date.

Swift’s seasonal evermore holds at No.5 with 37,000 sold (down 10 percent).

Madonna’s Celebration reverses course 3-2 for a third week at its peak position, shifting 64,000 copies (up 3 percent).

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark ascends 4-3, selling 46,000 copies (down 4 percent). The album spent eleven weeks at number-one earlier this year. Mitchell also rebounds 8-7 with the No.6-peaking Hejira, selling 32,000 copies (up 3 percent).

The Kooks are back to their highest rank as The Best of … So Far swings 6-4 on sales of 39,000 units (up 5 percent).

Outside the Top Ten: Mariah Carey elevates 7-6 for a new peak with Greatest Hits (35,000 units – up 2 percent); Adele’s seventeen-week-leader 30 climbs 10-8 (28,000 units – up 7 percent); The 1975’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language holds at No.9 following its No.1 debut (25,000 units – down 8 percent).

Carly Rae Jepsen rounds out the Top Ten as The Loneliest Time slides 2-10 in its sophomore frame, declining by 78 percent to 24,000 units.

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights is currently headed for a third straight week in the penthouse, with sales of over 125,000 units. Joji could also nab a Top Five debut with Smithereens, tracking for opening sales of over 40,000 copies.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.11 – Blue / Joni Mitchell’s seminal record maintains its No.11 rank in its 88th week inside the Top 50, selling 23,000 copies. The juggernaut has now been certified 8 x Platinum for selling over 2.4 million units, becoming just the 13th album in history to achieve this!

No.25 – 21 / Adele’s sophomore album rises 25-24 with 10,000 sold as it logs its milestone 104th week in the Top 50. With a full two years on the chart, 21 becomes the (fittingly) 21st album to spend as long on the 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).

TAYLOR SWIFT’S Midnights debuts at No.1 with biggest week of the year!

Midnights enters at No.1 with largest sales week since Adele’s 30; Carly Rae Jepsen opens at No.2. Plus: new certifications for Mariah Carey & The 1975!

Taylor Swift scores her sixth consecutive number-one album on the Weekly Top 50 as Midnights debuts with the biggest sales week in almost a year, launching with 277,000 units in its opening frame. The last album to earn a larger sales week was Adele’s 30 which bowed with a record-breaking 650,000 units for the chart dated 29 November 2021.

Swift also nabs her third-biggest debut to date, as Midnights outperforms 2020’s folklore (259,000) and evermore (226,000); only Lover (310,000), and reputation (309,000) performed better in their debuts.

Swift’s chart debuts are as follows:

• 2017, reputation – 309,000
• 2019, Lover – 310,000
• 2020, folklore – 259,000
• 2020, evermore – 226,000
• 2021, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) – 89,000
• 2021, Red (Taylor’s Version) – 108,000
• 2022, Midnights – 277,000

With 277,000 sold, Midnights is officially the fastest-selling album of the year, narrowly topping Harry Styles’s Harry’s House which debuted with 274,000 units for the chart dated 30 May. However, House‘s lofty debut comprised of 238,000 pure sales with 36,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album, while Swift’s figure is comprised entirely of pure sales as there were no singles released to trailer the album.

With the debut of Midnights, Swift has now spent a whopping thirty-five weeks at the number one spot across her six chart-topping hits. Her longest-running ruler is 2020’s folklore (seventeen weeks), followed by evermore (eleven weeks), and Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (three weeks). reputation, Lover, Red (Taylor’s Version), and Midnights have all spent a single week at the summit.

Swift’s wintery evermore meanwhile bullets at No.5 with 41,000 sold (up 13 percent).

Carly Rae Jepsen achieves her third consecutive Top Five smash as The Loneliest Time premieres at No.2 with 108,000 copies sold – this figure is made up of 65,000 pure sales and a further 43,000 pre-sales.

Jepsen previously sent two albums – Dedicated and Dedicated Side B – to the top of the charts in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Madonna’s Celebration retreats from its No.2 highpoint to No.3, on sales of 62,000 copies (up 4 percent).

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark slips 3-4 after eleven weeks in pole position, moving 48,000 copies (down 13 percent). Mitchell’s Hejira also falls from its No.6 best to No.8, with 31,000 sold this week (down 6 percent).

Outside the Top Five: The Kooks’s The Best of … So Far regresses to No.6 from its No.4 highpoint (37,000 sold – down 8 percent); Mariah Carey’s newly-Gold-certified Greatest Hits bullets at its No.7 peak (34,000 units – up 4 percent); and The 1975’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language tumbles 1-9 in its sophomore frame, while also going Gold (27,000 units – down 69 percent).

Adele rounds out the Top Ten this week as seventeen-week-leader 30 drops 8-10 (26,000 sold – down 16 percent).

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnights is currently tracking to sell 125 – 150k units in its sophomore week, which would easily secure a second stay at the top spot.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.13 – Elvis 30 #1 Hits / Elvis Presley’s posthumous collection departs the Top Ten after twelve weeks in the region – including a one-week stay at the penthouse – falling from No.9 to No.13 with 18,000 copies sold. Elvis has now sold just over 600,000 copies, making it Presley’s first album to be certified Multi-Platinum!

No.15 – The Car / Arctic Monkeys pay their first visit to the Top 50 as their long-awaited comeback record The Car opens with a lower-than-expected 17,000 units. Car had been expected to sell over 30,000 in its opening week, which would have secured a Top 10 spot this week.

No.19 – Red (Taylor’s Version) / Adding to Swift’s momentous week, her late-2021 re-recording of 2012’s Red rose to No.19 (15,000 sold) increasing its lifetime sales to 904,000 in the process. Red is Swift’s fifth album to sell at least 900,000.

No.23 – The Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-flavoured piece sink 17-23 after peaking at No.14 two weeks ago, selling 12,000 copies. Despite this, the album has now become Mitchell’s latest Silver-certified hit.

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).

The 1975 CRASH IN AT NUMBER-ONE!

The band claim the crown with their newest release – Being Funny in a Foreign Language – as Madonna, Joni Mitchell & The Kooks earn new certifications, and Taylor Swift re-enters Top Five.

The 1975 score their first chart-topper with the release of Being Funny in a Foreign Language as the album opens with a stellar 87,000 units; 79,000 being pure sales, with a further 8,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album.

Funny is already the group’s highest-charting and bestselling hit, passing 2020’s Notes on a Conditial Form which debuted and peaked at No.8 but failed to achieve Silver status.

Madonna’s Celebration bullets at the No.2 spot on sales of 60,000 copies (up 33 percent) while becoming the icon’s second album to be certified Gold for selling over 100,000 units. Her 2019 hit Madame X – which also topped out at No.2 – has sold close to a million copies to date.

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark slides to No.3 after a total of eleven weeks at the number-one spot, moving 55,000 this week (down 26 percent). To date, Court has sold 1.5 million copies, making it the second album of Mitchell’s career to be certified at least 5 x Platinum; her 1971 chart-topping masterpiece Blue is currently certified 7 x Platinum, and has sold 2.36 million.

Mitchell’s Hejira meanwhile reverses course 8-6 for a third week at its highpoint, shifting 33,000 copies this week (up 10 percent); and the afforementioned Blue bumps 11-10 with 24,000 sold (up 9 percent).

The Kooks hit another new high as The Best of … So Far pushes 5-4 with 40,000 sold (up 14 percent). The collection has now been certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.

Taylor Swift caps the Top Five as thirteen-week-ruler evermore improves 7-5 with 36,000 sold (up 9 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Mariah Carey’s Greatest Hits reaches a new peak, bounding 9-7 (32,000 units – up 18 percent); Adele’s 30 departs the Top Five for the first time after spending seventeen weeks in pole position, tumbling 4-8 (31,000 units – down 14 percent); Elvis Presley’s Elvis 30 #1 Hits dives 6-9 after debuting at the top spot three months ago (26,000 units – down 22 percent).

Onto Next Week: Taylor Swift’s Midnight could challenge for one of 2022’s largest debuts, with opening-week sales of over 150,000 units. Expect Carly Rae Jepsen’s The Loneliest Time (80 – 100k), and The Arctic Monkeys’s The Car (20 – 30k) to also make notable splashes.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.30 – Blue Banisters / Lana Del Rey’s latest studio album ascends 35-30 on sales of 9,000 copies as it clocks a milestone 52nd week in the Top 50. It is Del Rey’s seventh album to spend a full year on the tally, following Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (55 weeks); Honeymoon (62 weeks); Chemtrails Over the Country Club (83 weeks); Born to Die: the Paradise Edition (100 weeks); Lust for Life (113 weeks); and Norman Fucking Rockwell! (164 weeks).

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).

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark rules for eleventh week!

Plus: Madonna & The Kooks hit Top Five; Taylor Swift’s evermore passes major milestone!

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark has now spent a whopping eleven non-consecutive weeks at number-one on the L.dK Top 50. It is the second longest-running chart-topper of the year, behind only Adele’s 30 (twelve weeks).

Court and Spark sold 74,000 copies this week (down 5 percent) and has moved over 1.4 million units to date.

Mitchell’s Hejira meanwhile regresses from its No.6 highpoint to No.8, selling 30,000 units (down 3 percent).

Madonna collects the second Top Five hit of her career as Celebration rockets 47-2 with 45,000 sold in its first full sales week (up 650 percent). The best-of album follows Madame X which also reached No.2 and has since been certified Triple Platinum, denoting sales of over 900,000 units.

Maggie Rogers’s three-week-leader Surrender slides 2-3 with 41,000 sold (down 27 percent); and Adele’s 30 repeats at No.4 after seventeen weeks in pole position, selling 36,000 copies (down 2 percent).

The Kooks pay their first visit to the Top Five this week as The Best of … So Far sails 9-5 on sales of 35,000 copies (up 52 percent). The sleeper hit has sold over a quarter of a million units since its release five months ago.

Elvis Presley’s Elvis 30 #1 Hits departs the Top Five for the first time as the number-one hit slides 3-6 (33,000 copies – down 25 percent).

Taylor Swift’s wintery evermore bullets at No.7 (33,000 units – up 32 percent) as it becomes just the third album in history to sell more than 4 million copies, following Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! (5.51 million) and Swift’s own folklore, which this week becomes the second album to top 5 million sales!

Rounding out the Top Ten: Kate Bush tumbles 5-9 with The Whole Story (28,000 units – down 15 percent); and Mariah Carey’s now-Silver-certified Greatest Hits retreats from its No.8 peak to No.10, although with a bullet (27,000 units – up 12 percent).

Onto Next Week: The 1975 could be on course for their first number-one album with Being Funny in a Foreign Language. The LP is currently tracking to sell over 80,000 copies in its opening week.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.14 – The Hissing of Summer Lawns / Joni Mitchell’s 1975 jazz-infused record reaches a new peak as it surges 18-14 on sales of 16,000 copies.

No.23 – Ray of Light / Madonna’s 1998 comeback album debuts on sales of 12,000 copies, nabbing the star her third Top 50 hit.

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).

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark tallies rare tenth week at number-one!

Plus: New Top Ten hits for Mariah Carey & The Kooks!

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark ascends 2-1 with sales of 78,000 units (up 27 percent). It has now become only the eighth album ever to spend at least ten weeks in pole position, and ranks as the seventh longest-running chart-topper in history, just behind Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life which ruled for eleven weeks between 2017 and 2018.

Mitchell’s Hejira also bullets at its No.6 peak, shifting 31,000 copies (up 29 percent) as it goes Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.

Maggie Rogers falls to No.2 with three-week-leader Surrender, on sales of 56,000 copies (down 8 percent); Elvis Presley’s one-week-ruler Elvis 30 #1 Hits leaps 5-3, moving 44,000 units (up 69 percent); Adele’s 30 repeats at No.4 after seventen weeks at the top spot, selling 37,000 copies (up 22 percent); and Kate Bush’s The Whole Story retreats to No.5 after logging an eighth week at its No.3 peak, shifting 33,000 copies (up 6 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Taylor Swift’s evermore gains at No.7 (25,000 units – up 4 percent); Mariah Carey’s Greatest Hits soars into the Top Ten in its second week as it flies 20-8 (24,000 units – up 100 percent); and The Kooks also nab their first Top Ten hit as The Best of … So Far vaults 12-9 (23,000 sold – up 43 percent).

Stevie Nicks rounds out the Top Ten as Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks descends 9-10 (19,000 units – down 14 percent).

Onto Next Week: Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark should be bound for an eleventh week at number-one, currently tracking to sell over 60,000 copies.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.12 – Night Ride Home / Joni Mitchell’s 1991 album blasts 19-12 to pass its former peak of No.14, selling 18,000 copies this week. Night has sold over 150,000 copies to date.

No.14 – The Very Best of Enya / The compilation record from the Irish new-age star rebounds 17-14 after peaking at No.5 a month ago. The disc sold 15,000 this week, and has now been certified Gold for selling more than 100,000 units.

No.17 – Greatest Hits / Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 best-of set has now become just the 24th album to shift over 2 million copies; and the second by the Mac, following Rumours (2.09 million).

No.37 – Turubulent Indigo / Joni Mitchell’s 1994 critical-revival ascends 42-37 with 8,000 sold. The album is Mitchell’s latest set to be certified Silver.

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).

Maggie Rogers returns to No.1 with Surrender!

Plus: Rina Sawayama goes Gold; Stevie Nicks re-enters Top Ten!

Maggie Rogers’s Surrender ascends 3-1 to log a third non-consecutive week atop the L.dK Top 50. The album sold 65,000 copies this week (up 9 percent).

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark stays at No.2 on sales of 61,000 units (down 4 percent); Mitchell also reaches a new high with Hejira as that album pushes 7-6, selling 24,000 copies (up 4 percent).

Kate Bush’s The Whole Story re-peaks at No.3 for an eighth cumulative week (up from No.6) as it moves 31,000 copies this week (even with last week),

Two former chart-toppers cap the Top Five: Adele holds at No.4 with 30, shifting 30,000 copies (down 10 percent); Elvis Presley keeps at No.5 with Elvis 30 #1 Hits on sales of 26,000 units (down 19 percent).

Outside the Top Ten: Taylor Swift’s evermore lifts 8-7 (24,000 units – up 6 percent); Rina Sawayama’s Hold the Girl slides 1-8, going Gold in its second week (23,000 units – down 72 percent); Stevie Nicks’s Crystal Visions – the Very Best of Stevie Nicks bounds 13-9 to re-enter the Top Ten (22,000 units – up 37 percent).

Lana Del Rey caps the Top Ten as Norman Fucking Rockwell! remains at No.10 (20,000 units – on par with last week) as it adds a record-extending 134th week inside the Top Ten!

Onto Next Week: Maggie Roger’s Surrender looks bound for a fourth week at the number-one spot with over 60,000 sold. Marcus Mumford’s (self-titled) could enter the Top Ten with over 20,000 copies.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.12 – The Best of … So Far / The Kooks’s compilation album roars to a new highpoint as it surges 19-12 on sales of 16,000 copies (up 23 percent). The disc has sold just under 220,000 units to date.

No.20 – Greatest Hits / Mariah Carey’s 2001 compilation record is her first non-Christmas album to reach the L.dK Top 50, entering with 12,000 sold.

No.24 – 21 / Adele’s sophomore album has now sold more than 900,000 copies, becoming the singer’s third successive hit to be certified Triple Platinum (at least).

No.39 – Bloom / Troye Sivan’s sophomore studio album has now become only the third album ever by a male solo artist to sell more than a million copies, having sold 1.004 million to date. It follows Harry Styles’s Fine Line (1.65 million) and The Weeknd’s After Hours (1.49 million). Currently, Bloom is the longest-charting album of all time by a male artist.

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).

Rina Sawayama steals top spot with Hold the Girl!

Plus: New certifications for Joni Mitchell & Adele!

Rina Sawayama debuts at No.1 on the L.dK Top 50 with her sophomore title Hold the Girl. The LP debuts with 58,000 in pure sales, while drawing a further 23,000 pre-sales derived from singles released prior to the album. Already certified Silver for selling over 60,000 copies, Girl becomes Sawayama’s first chart-topper, and her second Top Five hit.

Her Platinum-certified debut album SAWAYAMA re-enters at No.22 this week with 12,000 sold. It previously rose as high as No.4 in early 2021.

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark slips to No.2 after a total of nine weeks at the summit, shifting 64,000 copies (down 6 percent). It has now become Mitchell’s second album to be certified 4 x Platinum for selling in excess of 1.2 million copies.

The Canadian legend is also up 8-7 with 1976’s Hejira on sales of 22,000 copies (up 4 percent) for a second week at its peak.

Maggie Rogers descends 2-3 with two-week-leader Surrender as it moves a further 60,000 copies (up 3 percent).

Adele’s seventeen-week-ruler, 30 sticks at No.4 with 33,000 sold (down 3 percent) as it becomes just the fifth album in history to be certified 12 x Platinum, denoting sales of over 3.6 million copies.

Elvis Presley anchors the Top Five as the chart-topping Elvis 30 #1 Hits slides 3-5 with 32,000 sold (down 13 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Kate Bush’s No.3-peaking The Whole Story steps down 5-6 (31,000 copies – even with last week); Taylor Swift’s evermore bumps 9-8 (22,000 units – up 4 percent); Enya’s The Very Best of Enya dives 6-9 after debuting at No.5 (20,000 units – down 8 percent); and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! remains at No.10 in its record-padding 133rd week inside the Top Ten (20,000 units – up 6 percent).

Onto Next Week: Both Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark and Maggie Rogers’s Surrender are currently tracking to sell over 60,000 copies, and so could be in close contention for the No.1 spot.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.24 – Sweetener / Ariana Grande’s fourth studio album became a smash upon its release in the Summer of 2018, and has cemented itself as an all-time great in the years that have followed. Including this week’s haul of 11,000 units, the album has sold over 2.4 million copies, earning it an 8 x Platinum distinction – a feat accomplished by just eleven other albums.

No.27 – Tracy Chapman / The debut album from this singer-songwriter has now been certified Triple Platinum for selling over 900,000 copies since its retrospective release in the Winter of 2021. It reached No.1 in March this year, and has continued to sell well since.

No.46 – Let Go / Avril Lavigne’s debut album makes its first chart appearance at No.46 with 6,000 sold in the latest tracking week. It has moved 21,000 copies to date.

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).

Joni Mitchell leads for ninth week with Court and Spark!

Plus: Maggie Rogers & Enya earn new certifications; Florence + the Machine re-enters Top Ten!

Joni Mitchell’s has now spent a total of nine non-consecutive weeks at number-one on the Top 50 with Court and Spark. It is now the 7th longest-running number-one hit of all time, tied with Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club. The album sold 68,000 copies this week (down 4 percent).

Mitchell’s Hejira meanwhile regresses from its No.7 highpoint to No.8, selling 21,000 units (down 12 percent).

Three chart-topping hits follow inside the Top Five: Maggie Rogers repeats at No.3 with Surrender as it passes sales of 600,000, earning the hit a Double Platinum certification (58,000 units – down 6 percent); Elvis Presley holds at No.3 with Elvis 30 #1 Hits on sales of 37,000 copies (down 3 percent); and Adele’s 30 bullets at No.4 with 34,000 sold (up 13 percent).

Kate Bush’s The Whole Story ascends 6-5 to anchor the Top Five, on sales of 31,000 copies (up 3 percent).

Outside the Top Five: Enya’s newly-Silver-certified The Very Best of Enya drops 5-6 in its second week (22,000 units – down 27 percent); Florence + the Machine’s Dance Fever leaps 11-7 (22,000 units – up 22 percent); Taylor Swift’s evermore keeps at No.9 (21,000 units – down 8 percent); and Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! remains at No.10 in its (19,000 units – down 5 percent) record-extending 132nd week inside the Top Ten!

Onto Next Week: Rina Sawayama’s Hold the Girl could debut at the top spot with sales of over 75,000 copies.

L.dK Weekly Top 50

Notable Moves in the Weekly Top 50

No.18 – Night Ride Home / Joni Mitchells 1991 record descends 17-18 after peaking at No.14 for three weeks. The album has now been certified Gold for selling over 100,000 copies since its release.

No.31 – When the Pawn… / Fiona Apple’s sophomore album has now become her second release to be certified Silver, denoting sales of over 60,000 units, following 2020’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters which has sold over 1 million to date.

No.41 – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die / Panic! at the Disco’s biggest chart hit dips 40-41 in its 22nd charting week. Weird is the band’s first effort to be certified Platinum for selling over 300,000 copies.

No.48 – Rock a Little / Stevie Nicks’s third studio album has been a chart mainstay since its first showing in early 2017, and is one of the most successful hits to never reach number-one on the Top 50. Despite never topping the chart, it has now become only the eighth album in history to spend a full three years (156 weeks) on the L.dK Weekly Charts! It is Nicks’s second album to achieve this, following her 1981 debut Bella Donna which has charted for a record 209 weeks to date.

L.dK Weekly Top Artists

Note

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