Elton John "The Lockdown Session ERA"

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New COLLABORATIONS ALBUM, out on 22nd October.


An Elton John collaborations album made during lockdown featuring a collection of 16 songs, with some of the biggest, most exciting artists in the world today. The lead single 'Cold Heart' featuring Dua Lipa is a mashup of 'Sacrifice' & 'Rocketman', and the album features artists such Brandi Carlile, Charlie Puth, Dua Lipa, Eddie Vedder, Gorillaz, Lil Nas X, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Rina Sawayama, SG Lewis, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Surfaces, Years & Years, Young Thug, and more.



Tracklist

1. Elton John & Dua Lipa – Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) - 1st single (n.1 uk and top 10 everywhere, waiting for US)

2. Elton John, Young Thug & Nicki Minaj – Always Love You

3. Surfaces feat. Elton John – Learn To Fly - 2020 precedent single release

4. Elton John & Charlie Puth – After All - 2nd single

5. Rina Sawayama & Elton John – Chosen Family - 2021 precedent single release (top 10 uk itunes)

6. Gorillaz feat. Elton John & 6LACK – The Pink Phantom - 2021 precedent single release

7. Elton John & Years & Years – It's a sin - 2021 precedent single release ( n.1 uk itunes)

8. Miley Cyrus feat. WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo & Chad Smith – Nothing Else Matters - 2021 precedent single release

9. Elton John & SG Lewis – Orbit

10. Elton John & Brandi Carlile – Simple Things

11. Jimmie Allen & Elton John – Beauty In The Bones

12. Lil Nas X feat. Elton John – One Of Me

13. Elton John & Eddie Vedder – E-Ticket

14. Elton John & Stevie Wonder – Finish Line - other single

15. Elton John & Stevie Nicks – Stolen Car

16. Glen Campbell & Elton John – I’m Not Gonna Miss You



Midway charts:

UK 1 (> 23.000 sps )
GERMANY 6
USA 9 (> 30.000 sps)

amazo.co.uk: 1
amazon us: 3


tomorrow the updates

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The Lockdown Sessions hits # 2 this morning in Australia!

ARIA wrote:
"Elton John takes out his highest ARIA Albums Charts debut in almost 30 years as he hits #2 with the collaborations project The Lockdown Sessions. The legendary singer-songwriter’s first studio album Wonderful Crazy Night (#11 Feb. ’16) becomes his first Top Ten studio release since Songs From The West Coast (#7 May ’02) and the highest debut by a studio album since The One (#2 Jun. ’92)."

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NETHERLANDS:

The Lockdown sessions # 19 (new entry)
Cold Heart # 8 (new peak)

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France :

#8 (NE) The Lockdown Sessions

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italy :

#15 (NE) The Lockdown Sessions
#6 (10) Cold Heart

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Germany

# 5 - The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 3 - Cold heart (new peak)

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Uk

# 1 The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 2 - Cold heart

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From music week uk:

01 30,814 Elton John - The Lockdown Sessions [25,770 physical sales]

A fortnight after he topped the singles chart for the eighth time, Elton John appropriately enough now enjoys the eighth No.1 album of his career. Featuring a string of eclectic collaborations, including current singles chart smash Cold Heart, The Lockdown Sessions strolls effortlessly to the top of the charts with 30,814 sales, including 25,770 physical copies.

Elton enjoyed four No.1 albums in a row in the ’70s, two more in quick succession in the ’90s (Sleeping With The Past and Greatest Hits) before enduring a 22-year wait for his seventh, this new album his first chart-topping success since Pnau collaboration Good Morning To The Night reached the summit in 2012.

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Elton John’s The Lockdown Sessions storms to Number 1 on Official Albums Chart: "I am so proud of what we have created"


Congratulations to Elton John, whose new album The Lockdown Sessions lands straight in at Number 1 on the Official UK Albums Chart.

The Lockdown Sessions opens at the summit with 31,000 chart sales, 84% of which were physical (CD and vinyl) sales. It marks Elton’s second Number 1 in less than a month – two weeks ago his single Cold Heart (Pnau Remix) with Dua Lipa hit Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.

The collection - which includes collaborations with Stevie Wonder, Lil Nas X, Stevie Nicks and Charlie Puth – earns Elton his eighth Number 1 album and first in nine years. View Elton John’s Official UK Chart history here.

Celebrating the news, Elton told OfficialCharts.com: "When I started collaborating with some of my favourite artists at the start of the pandemic, I couldn’t have dreamt in my wildest dreams it would lead to a Number 1 album.

"I am so proud of what we have created and thrilled that it has connected with our fans to such a degree. It shows the spirit of collaboration and togetherness that can still happen in the most trying circumstances. Thank you so much. Elton x"

Continuing Elton’s incredible run of success, his greatest hits album Diamonds holds inside the Top 20 at Number 18 – its 207^th week in the Top 100



Elton John’s Number 1s on the Official Albums Chart


Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player (1973)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Caribou (1974)
Elton John’s Greatest Hits (1974)
Sleeping With The Past (1989)
The Very Best Of (1990)
Good Morning To The Night (2012)
The Lockdown Sessions (2021)

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New Zealand

# 4 The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 2 - Cold heart (PLATINUM: > 30.000 sps)

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Bulgaria
# 2 Cold heart (new peak)

Greece
# 17 Cold heart (new peak)

Portugal
# 7 Cold heart (new peak)

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Belgium

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# 3 - the lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 2 - Cold heart
fl
#22 - the lockdown sessions (new entry)
#5 - Cold Heart

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Brazil

# 10 - The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 14 - Cold heart (new entry)

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Ireland
# 9 - The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 2 - Cold heart

Scotland
# 2 - The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 2 - Cold heart

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Norway
# 14 - The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 11 - Cold heart ( - 1)

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Switzerland

# 4 - The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 4 - Cold heart (new peak)

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Yet another Top 10 album in the US. Thats great!

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from Billboard:

Rounding out the Billboard 200's top 10, Elton John lands his 21st top 10 album, as his all-star, all-collaborative release The Lockdown Sessions debuts at No. 10 with 29,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 17,000; SEA units total 10,000 (equaling 13.1 million on-demand streams of the album's songs); and TEA units account for 2,000.

Lockdown includes John's latest top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit, "Cold Heart" (Pnau Remix), with Dua Lipa, as well as collaborations with a variety of artists, including Young Thug and Nicki Minaj ("Always Love You"), Charlie Puth ("After All"), Eddie Vedder ("E-Ticket"), Stevie Wonder ("Finish Line") and Stevie Nicks ("Stolen Car").

John notched his first Billboard 200 top 10 over 50 years ago, when his self-titled album climbed 11-7 on the Jan. 30, 1971-dated chart; it peaked at No. 4 a week later (Feb. 6, 1971). (Breaking down his 21 top 10s by decade: 13 in the '70s, two in the '90s, one in the '00s, four in the '10s and now one in the '20s.)

John is in the select group of acts with at least 20 top 10 albums on the Billboard 200, from March 24, 1956, when the list began publishing on a regular, weekly basis, through the new, Nov. 6, 2021, survey. Here's an updated leaderboard.

Most Billboard 200 Top 10s:
37, The Rolling Stones
34, Barbra Streisand
32, The Beatles
32, Frank Sinatra
27, Elvis Presley
23, Bob Dylan
22, Madonna
21, Elton John
21, Paul McCartney/Wings
21, Bruce Springsteen
21, George Strait
20, Prince

- elton’s total doesn’t include The Lion King ost

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Czech Republic

# 35 - The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 31 - Cold heart (+ 12)

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mediatraffic

# 5 - Cold heart (+ 3)

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Austria

# 6 - The lockdown sessions (new entry)
# 12 - Cold heart (+ 9)