Dua Lipa’s Album Soars Nearly 3,200% In Sales

Dua Lipa’s 2024 didn’t go exactly as she’d planned. Her third album Radical Optimism wasn’t met with the same critical fervor as her past projects, and it didn’t perform nearly as well on the charts, either. The pop singer didn’t let a bump in the road slow her down, and she returned with a special new set only a few months later.

Dua Lipa Live From The Royal Albert Hall debuts on multiple Billboard charts this week. The set, which was originally released more than a month ago, has become a bestseller after vinyl copies shipped to eager fans throughout America, and sales of the title skyrocketed.

In the past tracking week, Dua Lipa Live From The Royal Albert Hall sold 3,800 copies. That number comes from Luminate, the company that tracks sales and streaming data in the United States–data which Billboard then uses to compile its weekly charts.

The week before the vinyl edition of the live set shipped, the album only sold a little more than 100 copies. Lipa’s latest offering increased its sales figure by just under 3,200% from one frame to the next, thanks almost entirely to wax.

Dua Lipa Live From The Royal Albert Hall debuts highest between the two Billboard tallies it reaches this week on the Top Album Sales chart. On that list, which looks at the top-selling titles in the country, regardless of genre or format, the Grammy winner’s recording opens at No. 15.

The same project is also new to the Vinyl Albums chart, which is easy to understand, since it’s those purchases that ensure Dua Lipa Live From The Royal Albert Hall has a home on the Billboard rankings at all this week. On that list, Lipa launches at No. 23.

Dua Lipa Live From The Royal Albert Hall marks the singer-songwriter’s fourth title to reach both the Top Album Sales and Vinyl Albums charts. It’s her lowest-ranking hit on the vinyl-only list, though she’s seen one project fall further on the all-encompassing sales roster.

Lipa released her first live album in December, though it made little to no commercial impact on the Billboard charts in America at the time. She recorded the set during a concert at, as the full-length’s name suggests, the Royal Albert Hall in London, in October. It took months before it sold well enough for it to appear on the weekly rankings in the U.S.