Billboard

Marina And The Diamonds Shine

- —GORDON MURRAY

Marina and the Diamonds soar from No. 25 to No. 2 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart with Electra Heart, matching the album’s peak position first set upon its debut in July 2012. It earned 12,000 equivalent album units (up 551%), with 10,000 in vinyl sales, in the Sept. 23-29 tracking week, according to Luminate, sparked by the Sept. 23 arrival of its Platinum Blonde Edition, a 10th-anniversar­y expanded reissue on magenta-colored vinyl. The release also returns to Vinyl Albums (No. 3) and the Billboard 200 (No. 68).

Additional­ly on Top Dance/Electronic Albums, Swedish House Mafia surges 17-4 with Paradise Again (6,000 units; 4,000 from album sales). The set, which became the act’s second No. 1 when it debuted in April, was issued on CD on Sept. 23 and made available with alternate cover art through the group’s webstore. The trio of Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso first led the chart with Until Now in 2012.

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