advertisement
FYI

Adele's 30 Returns For Sixth Week At No.1

After making way for Michael Buble’s Christmas over the holidays, Adele’s 30 returns to No.

Adele's 30 Returns For Sixth Week At No.1

By External Source

After making way for Michael Buble’s Christmas over the holidays, Adele’s 30 returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the sixth week and earns the highest album sales total for the week.


The soundtrack for the Disney movie Encanto, featuring songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, bullets 24-2 in its second week on the chart, picking up the highest on-demand streams and digital song sales for the week. It matches the peak position of the Hamilton cast recording, Miranda’s highest-charting release.

Ed Sheeran’s = holds at No. 3, Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) slides 9-4, and The Weeknd’s The Highlights glides 11-5.

advertisement

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

advertisement
From left: Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner photographed by Wesley Mann on September 1, 2023 at Long Pond Studio near Hudson, NY.
Wesley Mann

From left: Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner photographed by Wesley Mann on September 1, 2023 at Long Pond Studio near Hudson, NY.

Music News

Aaron Dessner Sets the Record Straight on Gracie Abrams’ ‘Death Wish’: It’s ‘Definitely Not’ About Taylor Swift

The producer also shared how he ended up performing with Noah Kahan over the weekend.

Aaron Dessner and Gracie Abrams have now made three albums together, with the pop star’s third studio effort, Daughter From Hell, arriving July 17. But one song in particular has stirred up a few misconceptions, and in a recent conversation with Billboard, the producer cleared them up.

Hopping on a Zoom call on Tuesday (July 21) — just days after joining Noah Kahan on stage in New York to perform one of The Great Divide songs he produced, a cameo that severe weather almost ruined — Dessner addressed confusion over the production and subject of “Death Wish,” one of the most talked-about tracks on Daughter From Hell. Some listeners have expressed surprise that the spritely album version sounds so different from the somber live piano version Abrams initially recorded and released amid her Secret of Us Tour, questioning why the duo would “change” the “original.” (Spoiler alert: They didn’t.)

keep readingShow less
advertisement