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Another Blasé Chart Week Keeps A Star Is Born At No. 1

In another quiet week for new releases, Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack holds firm at No.

Another Blasé Chart Week Keeps A Star Is Born At No. 1

By FYI Staff

In another quiet week for new releases, Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack holds firm at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the eighth non-consecutive week, chalking up 7,000 total consumption units. The single “Shallow” spends its 14th week at the top of the Digital Songs chart.


A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN remains at 2 for the second straight week with an 11% consumption increase.

The soundtrack for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse jumps 5-3 with a 5% consumption increase. The first single from the album, Post Malone’s “Sunflower,” rockets to No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart.

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Returning to the top ten this week are Meek Mill’s Championships, which moves 11-8, and Kodak Black’s Dying to Live, which skips 13-10.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with colour detail provided by Nielsen Music Canada Director, Paul Tuch.

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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.

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

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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.)

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