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Adam DeGross
Post Malone
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Post Malone's 'F-1 Trillion' Speeds Into No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums Chart
The Texas-raised singer has pivoted to country on his new album with record-making results, as the record dominates the Canadian charts this week.
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Post Malone is joyriding to the top of the Billboard Canadian Albums chart this week with F-1 Trillion.
His new country album has debuted at No. 1 in Canada, unseating Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department. (Eminem also took the spot from Swift in August with The Death of Slim Shady, before she reclaimed it).
The debut marks Post Malone's fourth No. 1 Canadian album, his first time in the spot since 2022's Twelve Carat Toothache.
After 2023's alt-rock inspired Austin failed to hit the same commercial heights as previous records, Posty headed down to Nashville to reconnect with his southern youth and make a country record.
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He was seemingly welcomed by country music royalty, collaborating with veteran stars like Dolly Parton and Tim McGraw and contemporary hitmakers like Luke Combs and Lainey Wilson on the new album.
The pivot is paying off, with F-1 Trillion receiving the most Amazon Music first-day streams for a country album ever in Canada. (Canadians are big Posty fans, as demonstrated by the 100,000 people who turned out to see him at Quebec City's FEQ this summer).
Songs from F-1 Trillion are flooding the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 this week too. Lead single "I Had Some Help," featuring controversial country superstar Morgan Wallen, sits at No. 2 on the chart and the Blake Shelton collab "Pour Me a Drink" is at No. 13, with Post notching 17 more placements on the chart.
The album has also hit No. 1 in the U.S., his first to do so there since 2019's Hollywood's Bleeding. Whether the album's successful debut can last is another question — another country effort this year, Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, debuted at No. 1 but has had less staying power. But where many of Cowboy Carter's collaborations uplifted Black country artists with less exposure alongside a few blockbusters like Miley Cyrus, Willie Nelson and Posty himself, Post has a star-studded list of featured performers on an album that is less about pushing country's boundaries than comfortably having a good time within them.
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Even if the chart success doesn't last, he'll likely be pouring himself a drink this week to celebrate.
Over on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100, Shaboozey (one of the featured artists on the aforementioned Cowboy Carter) holds onto the No. 1 spot with "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" and Chappell Roan's "Good Luck, Babe!" hits a new peak at No. 7.
In terms of Canadian chart performance, Shawn Mendes' comeback single "Why Why Why" spends a second week on the chart, dropping from No. 30 to No. 54. Punjabi-Canadian artist AP Dhillon also notches another week with "Old Money," going from No. 53 to No. 85 and Canadian country singer Josh Ross hangs on for a fourth week at No. 89 with "Single Again."
Check out the full charts here.
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