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Ain't He Sweet: Eminem's Gone And Done It No. 1 All Over Again

Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By remains at No.

Ain't He Sweet: Eminem's Gone And Done It No. 1 All Over Again

By FYI Staff

Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the third straight week, with 11,000 total consumption units, picking up the on-demand stream total for the week. It matches the three weeks spent at the top with his last album, 2018’s Kamikaze.


The remainder of the top four holds their positions from last week, with Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial holding at No. 2, as his single The Box remains at the top of the Streaming Songs chart. Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go holds at No. 3 and Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding stays at No. 4.

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The top new entry belongs to Lil Wayne’s Funeral at No. 5. All seven of his albums have peaked in the top five and it is his first release since 2018’s Tha Carter V debuted at No. 1.

A pair of One Direction members place in the top 10 this week with solo albums. Louis Tomlinson’s debut album, Walls, enters at No. 9, picking up the highest album sales total for the week. Harry Styles’ Fine Line spends its eighth straight week in the top ten, at No. 10.

Other new entries in the top 50 include Russ’ Shake The Snow Globe at No. 20, Kesha’s High Road at No. 21, Your Favorite Enemies’ The Early Days at No. 24 and Meghan Trainor’s Treat Myself at No. 25.

Jennifer Lopez’s 2012 best-of release, Dance Again…The Hits, re-enters at No. 49, thanks to her performance at last week’s Super Bowl halftime show.

-- All data courtesy of SoundScan with colour commentary delivered by Nielsen Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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