New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Lana Del Rey has earned her fifth UK Number 1 album with Chemtrails Over The Country Club. Debuting at the top spot with 40,000 chart sales this week, Lana�s seventh studio album joins Born To Die (2012), Ultraviolence (2014), Lust For Life (2017) and Norman F**king
Rockwell (2019) as Number 1s on the UK Albums Chart.
With 16,700 vinyl copies sold in the last seven days, Chemtrails becomes the fastest-selling vinyl album of the century by a female artist, and among international acts. The overall fastest seller on wax since 2000 is Arctic Monkeys� Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino. As a result, the album tops both this week�s Vinyl Albums Chart and Record Store Chart.
Lana Del Rey now ties
Celine Dion for the fifth most Number 1 albums by a female solo artist in the UK. Only Madonna, Kylie Minogue,
Barbra Streisand and
Taylor Swift have claimed more.
Meanwhile, Justin Bieber�s sixth album
Justice debuts at Number 2, the album most streamed by the British public this week. Indie rockers
Black Honey debut at Number 7 with new album Written and Directed, their highest charting effort to date and first Top 10.
Bob Dylan�s commemorative boxset 1970 is also new in at Number 13, while
Sting debuts at Number 17 with new LP Duets; featuring tracks with musical icons
Annie Lennox, Mary J Blige and Eric Clapton, it nets The
Police frontman his 20th Top 40 collection as a solo artist.
Finally, following the release of the band�s latest single Beautiful Mistakes featuring Megan Thee Stallion, Maroon 5�s 2015 greatest hits album Singles vaults eight places to Number 34, a new peak for the collection.