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Abba Debuts At 2, But Teddy's Still No. 1

Ed Sheeran, (pictured) Abba and US singer Summer Walker have the 3 top albums this week; meantime, Michael Buble's Christmas bullets 95-27 and Montreal tenor's Noel debuts at 28. With video.

Abba Debuts At 2, But Teddy's Still No. 1

By FYI Staff

Ed Sheeran’s = spends its 2nd straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest on-demand streams and digital song sales totals and the second-highest album sales for the week.


Abba’s Voyage, their first studio album in 40 years, debuts at No. 2, picking up the highest album sales total for the week. Their best-of-release, Gold, jumps 63-44.

American singer Summer Walker’s Still Over It debuts at No. 3 with the second highest on-demand streams for the week. It is her highest-charting release to date, surpassing the No. 4 peak of her first full-length album, Over It, in October 2019.

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Drake’s Certified Lover Boy drops two positions to 4 as does Lil Nas X’s Montero, slipping into 5th place.

In anticipation of Taylor’s Version release this week, Taylor Swift’s 2012 album Red bullets 79-26.

Michael Buble’s Christmas begins its inevitable rise to the upper reaches of the chart, rocketing 95-27. The album has hit No. 1 each holiday season for the last three years.

Other entries in the top 50 include Montreal tenor Marc Hervieux’s Nostalgia Noel at No. 28 and Radiohead’s Kid A Mnesia at No. 34. With the release of deluxe 30th-anniversary editions, The Tragically Hip’s Road Apples re-enters at 50.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch

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Obituaries: Canadian Artists Remember Paul Martin of The Blushing Brides, Max Webster's Terry Watkinson & John Hammond

This week we also acknowledge the passing of hit songwriter and recording artist Neil Sedaka and American guitar ace Travis Wammack.

Paul Martin, a Toronto guitarist, singer-songwriter and music publisher best known as a member of the Blushing Brides, died on Feb 24, his 67th birthday. A cause of death has not been officially reported

The origins of the Blushing Brides date back to the late '70s when vocalist Maurice Raymond agreed to join Martin's Kingston band Consilium. The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia reports that "In early 1979, two Kingston, Ontario, musicians, Maurice Raymond (vocals) and Paul Martin (guitar), decided to fill the musical gap left with the absence of a tour every four or five years by their mutually favourite band The Rolling Stones. Soon they laid down the groundwork for a tribute band called, simply, The Blushing Brides.

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