One week, a new number one! The game of musical chairs continues at the top of the Top Albums. After Slimane, Billie Eilish, Theodort, SCH and Jul, it is Lacrim’s turn to take pole position in the ranking. His latest album “Veni Vidi Vici” convinces 19,000 fans to flock to his new songs. Obviously, Jul and Pierre Garnier fell back to the other two steps of the podium. The Marseille rapper brings together 16,400 fans with “Update” (-62%) while the winner of the “Star Academy”, several of whose concerts have been canceled, still sells 11,400 copies of his first album “Every second” (-64 %). Heuss L’Enfoiré settles in fourth position: “La vie de Roni” fascinated 8,400 music lovers. He does better than SCH and Billie Eilish, whose hit records “JVLIVS Prequel: Giulio” (-43%) and “Hit Me Hard and Soft” (-22%), have sold 6,500 and 5,900 copies respectively.
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Paul McCartney acclaimed, Moby misses entry
Surprise: “The Mirror Hour”, the associative album by guitarist Thibault Cauvin and -M-, arrives seventh with 5,500 purchases. Follows Slimane, eighth with the best of “Essentiels” (3,800 units, -13%) while the Belgian rapper Caballero is ninth with his “Heroic Dose”, to which 3,300 people joined. Finally, the indestructible mixtape “Chambre 140” by PLK is still in 10th place with also 3,300 units (-6%). Note that for the first time since its release two months ago, “The Tortured Poets Department” by Taylor Swift leaves the top 10: it is 13th this week with 3,100 sales (-18%).
In terms of new releases, Paul McCartney is doing the best, as he has just announced two concerts at Paris La Défense Arena. Finally available 50 years after its recording, the album “One Hand Clapping” by Wings, 17th, interested 2,500 fans. While his Bercy is struggling to fill up, Maes sees his latest project “Waiting for LVC 2” being acclaimed 2,000 times. He enters 21st. That is 17 places higher than the American rapper Don Toliver, whose album “Hardstone Psycho” interested 1,600 curious people. On the contrary, Moby is not a success: his new album “Always Centered At Night” does not exceed 196th place with only 663 sales on the clock.
Ten days after her disappearance, the public also looked at the discography of Françoise Hardy, which is moving up in the rankings. And it is mainly compilations that are doing well. The “Best Of 3 CDs” is 63rd with 1,300 sales, followed by “Personal Messages” (1,000 purchases, 83rd), “Greatest Recordings” (109th, 900 sales), “Greatest Hits” (674 units, 189th), the two volumes of “Some titles that I know of her” (215th and 218th, 628 and 626 receipts) as well as “Personne d’autre”, her final released album in 2018, 233rd with 595 purchases.
