Lana Del Rey secures sixth Number 1 album with Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd becomes the fastest-selling LP of 2023 to date
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Lana Del Rey nets a sixth UK Number 1 album with Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd today, scooping the fastest-selling LP of 2023 so far. 

Lana’s ninth studio album joins her previous UK chart-toppers Born to Die (2012), Ultraviolence (2014), Lust for Life (2017), Norman F*cking Rockwell! (2019) and Chemtrails Over the Country Club (2021). Explore Lana’s extensive Official Charts history to date here

Did you know that there’s a tunnel... surpasses the opening week of Pink’s recent chart-topper TRUSTFALL for the best first-week sales of an album this year, as well as Lana’s strongest first week since Ultraviolence in 2014.

The self-analytical LP also sees Lana tie with the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Blur on the list of acts with the most UK Number 1 records to their name; boasting six apiece. See the full list here

Lana now also ranks as the female solo artist with the fifth-most Number 1 albums in the UK. Only Madonna (12), Taylor Swift (9), Kylie Minogue (8) and Barbra Streisand (7) have more. See the full list here.

MORE: Explore Lana Del Rey's Official Charts history in full here

Martin Talbot, Chief Executive, Official Charts Company says: “The achievement of Lana Del Rey in scoring six Number 1 albums in just 11 years is quite something, especially given she has done so with the biggest first week numbers of any album this year. She is a genuine superstar of our era.” 

Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd also tops the Official Vinyl Albums Chart, proving the most popular record of the week on wax, and is the week’s most-purchased LP in independent record shops, too. 

Elsewhere in the all-new Top 5, Essex-formed synth-pop pioneers Depeche Mode earn their highest-charting album in a decade with Memento Mori (2). The most digitally-downloaded album of the week, it nets the duo – Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – an eighteenth UK Top 40 LP across a career spanning over 40 years.

Illinois rockers Fall Out Boy clinch a fifth Top 5 record with So Much (for) Stardust (3), 20 years after the group released their debut record Take This to Your Grave. Read our exclusive chat with lead singer Patrick Stump on the making of the album here.

MORE: Albums to come in 2023

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their seminal prog-rock opus Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd make a return to the Top 5 this week. A vinyl pressing of The Dark Side of the Moon – Live at Wembley 1974 lands at Number 3, while a The Dark Side of the Moon – 50 Years reissue sees the original 1973 studio LP rebound to Number 17.

The album last appeared in the Top 20 almost 12 years ago, back in October 2011.

Rounding out the all-new Top 5 is North Carolina-born country singer-songwriter Luke Combs. His fourth studio album Gettin’ Old – the follow-up to 2022’s Growin’ Up – earns him a UK career-best placing (5).

As viewers continue to enjoy the Amazon Prime Video adaption of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel Daisy Jones & the Six, the fictional band of the same name – comprising cast members Riley Keough, Sam Claflin and Suki Waterhouse – claim a new peak with Aurora, up 14 spots (26).

Japanese kawaii metal group BABYMETAL celebrate their third UK Top 40 LP with THE OTHER ONE landing at Number 32, while a 50th anniversary reissue of Elton John’s Honky Chateau sees it return to the Top 40 for the first time in five decades, at Number 33. The album peaked at Number 2 upon its original release in 1972.

And, finally, Georgian-British singer-songwriter Katie Melua enjoys an 11th UK Top 40 album with Love & Money this week (35).

Official Albums Chart Top 40 - 31/03/2023

LW POSITION POSITION TITLE ARTIST
NE 1 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER LANA DEL REY
NE 2 MEMENTO MORI DEPECHE MODE
NE 3 SO MUCH (FOR) STARDUST FALL OUT BOY
NE 4 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - LIVE AT PINK FLOYD
NE 5 GETTIN' OLD LUKE COMBS
2 6 THE HIGHLIGHTS WEEKND
4 7 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT
7 8 50 YEARS - DON'T STOP FLEETWOOD MAC
9 9 DIAMONDS ELTON JOHN
8 10 CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS EMINEM
3 11 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION MILEY CYRUS
11 12 SOS SZA
14 13 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA
13 14 = ED SHEERAN
10 15 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES
5 16 TRUSTFALL PINK
120 17 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD
16 18 TIME FLIES - 1994-2009 OASIS
17 19 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS
19 20 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN
18 21 1989 TAYLOR SWIFT
15 22 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT LEWIS CAPALDI
20 23 GREATEST HITS QUEEN
22 24 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC
21 25 THE ESSENTIAL MICHAEL JACKSON
40 26 AURORA DAISY JONES & THE SIX
23 27 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT
24 28 ELV1S - 30 NUMBER 1 HITS ELVIS PRESLEY
25 29 STARBOY WEEKND
27 30 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO
26 31 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT
NE 32 THE OTHER ONE BABYMETAL
NE 33 HONKY CHATEAU ELTON JOHN
1 34 SONGS OF SURRENDER U2
NE 35 LOVE & MONEY KATIE MELUA
30 36 CURTAIN CALL 2 EMINEM
29 37 BETWEEN US LITTLE MIX
32 38 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS
31 39 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - THE BEST OF WHITNEY HOUSTON
28 40 HEROES & VILLAINS METRO BOOMIN

© Official Charts Company 2023

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Smith Smyth

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Lana Is awesome. Such a talent who has stayed the distance and continues to prove herself.

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George

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I wish you'd let us know how much Lana has sold - especially the physical copies, including cassettes. Lana released 5 different versions on cassette, so would be great to know and or finally have a cassette chart too! And yes, I did buy all 5 cassettes! :P