Re: LANA DEL REY - BORN TO DIE THREAD

[Gary]

01 UK
01 Ireland
02 Denmark
03 Belgium
03 Norway
04 Poland


01 Germany
02 Austria
02 Belgium
03 Netherlands
04 France
04 Switzerland
06 Ireland
09 UK
10 Scotland


06 Iceland
07 Denmark
09 UK
12 Ireland
16 Scotland
18 Belgium

[Gary]

UK
Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die becomes 2012’s fastest selling album

25 year old US singer Lana Del Rey today triumphs over the recent media backlash as major label debut album Born To Die scores first week sales of over 117,000 copies, and outsells the rest of the Top 5 combined. In doing so, Born To Die becomes the fastest seller of the year to date, and the first album release of 2012 to break the 100,000 sales milestone week one and debuts at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart.

On its way to becoming undoubtedly one of 2012’s biggest debuts, Born To Die follows in the wake of 2011’s upward trends in UK digital music sales. Last year saw sales of digital albums rise by over 26% year on year, and Lana Del Rey has this week notched up a tidy 50,000 digital album sales alone in Born To Die’s first week of release. This impressive figure already surpasses Ed Sheeran’s 2011 record as the fastest selling digital debut for his triple platinum album +, though it is British rockers Coldplay who hold the overall digital record - current album Mylo Xyloto became the first album to top 80,000 downloads in a week upon its release in October 2011, racking up a tally of 83,000 digital sales out of total 208,000.

The album’s title track debuted in the Official Singles Chart Top 20 at Number 14 last Sunday and today climbs five places to Number 9, while debut single, Video Games, climbs three place today at Number 17 in its 16th week on the chart. Video Games has shifted nearly 292,000 units since release.

[Gary]

Come on Lana!

[Alonso]

117k?! Wow.

[Gary]

France
French Albums Chart
01 NE Lana Del Rey - Born To Die [48,791 copies sold]

Born To Die has set a new digital sales record in France with 17,000 downloads for the first week of release (previous record holder was David Guetta with 11,563).

[Gabe]

I like this cover.

[Gabe]

US sales;
2 LANA DEL REY INTERSCOPE 75,118

[Gary]

Respectable with no single charting bar Video Games at 92.

I think she will be more of an international star.

[Soul Eater]

i remember her album was #1 on itunes for a while and she had the delux edition in the top 5 aswell

is that everything she pulled out of it ?!
i was sure itll meant at least 300K

[Gary]

300k with no hit singles? Katy Perry couldn't even do that with 2 number 1s.

I think you are forgetting she isn't a pop meanstream artist. American isn't going to take to her type of music.

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