Lana Del Rey’s ‘Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd’ has change into the best-selling vinyl album of the 12 months to date.
Launched final month, the ninth studio album to be launched by the pop icon debuted on the Quantity One spot on the Official Albums chart – making it her sixth chart-topping LP within the UK.
Now, the album has additionally been licensed because the best-selling album on wax for 2023, surpassing the likes of Pink, Paramore and Taylor Swift. It has additionally supplied Del Rey’s strongest first week on the charts since 2014, when her second LP ‘Ultraviolence’ reached the height place.
As reported within the Official Vinyl Albums Chart Prime 40, lower than a month after its launch, ‘Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd’ offered over 20,800 copies on the format. This meant that the ‘Summertime Unhappiness’ singer beat off Pink’s chart-topping launch ‘Trustfall’ for the strongest first week of album gross sales in 2023.
Different Quantity One albums to make the checklist of best-selling vinyl LPs in 2023 embody Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’, Paramore’s ‘This Is Why’, Miley Cyrus’ ‘Countless Summer time Trip’ and Courteeners’ re-release of 2008’s ‘St. Jude’ – which hit the highest spot 15 years after its unique launch.
Depeche Mode’s ‘Memento Mori‘ and Inhaler‘s ‘Cuts & Bruises‘ had been additionally among the many 2023 releases to make the highest 10, whereas classics by Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac additionally made the minimize.
The highest 10 best-selling vinyl albums of 2023 to date are:
- ‘Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd’ – Lana Del Rey
- ‘Cracker Island’ – Gorillaz
- ‘St Jude’ – Courteeners
- ‘The Darkish Facet Of The Moon, Reside t’ – Pink Floyd
- ‘Midnights’ – Taylor Swift
- ‘This Is Why’ – Paramore
- ‘The Darkish Facet Of The Moon’ – Pink Floyd
- ‘Rumours’ – Fleetwood Mac
- ‘Memento Mori’ – Depeche Mode
- ‘Cuts & Bruises’ – Inhaler
Presently, Metallica’s newest effort, ‘72 Seasons’ is ranked within the Quantity One spot within the charts, following its debut earlier this month.
Earlier this month, the general checklist of best-selling albums of 2023 was revealed – with the likes of Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, SZA, Pink and Harry Kinds all dominating the highest 10.
In a four-star assessment of ‘…Ocean Blvd’, NME praised Del Rey for her means to mix “the soulful, traditional, timeless sounds of a singer-songwriter from a distant time” with parts together with “lure beats, speaker-wobbling bass and spoken phrase tracks edited with a way of Warholian spirit”.
“The songs cross-reference one another, looping again to earlier ideas and emotions, making it really feel such as you’re together with her in her day-to-day as she muses on these weighty subjects,” it learn.
“Specifically, the report faces as much as the queries and doubts that loom over even probably the most non-traditional of girls as they journey by means of their thirties – ones society haunts you with till you might have a solution.”
The album additionally noticed the singer-songwriter tie herself with Arctic Monkeys, Blur and Radiohead, on the checklist of acts with probably the most UK Quantity One information to their title.
In different Lana Del Rey information, final week it was confirmed that the ‘Video Video games’ singer could be the ultimate headliner for this summer time’s BST Hyde Park. She’s going to carry out on the final day of the 2023 competition on Sunday July 9.
