advertisement
FYI

Bieber and The Weeknd Top Albums Chart This Week

Justin Bieber’s Justice spends its second straight week at No 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest on-demand streams and digital song downloads for the week.

Bieber and The Weeknd Top Albums Chart This Week

By External Source

Justin Bieber’s Justice spends its second straight week at No 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest on-demand streams and digital song downloads for the week. The album places 2nd on the year-to-date album consumption list, trailing Morgan Wallen.


The Weeknd’s The Highlights returns to No. 2 and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia and Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon each drop one spot, to Nos. 3, 4 and 5 respectively.

Two albums debut in the top ten this week, led by (Nathan John Feuerstein) NF’s Clouds (The Mixtape) at No. 6. It is his second straight top ten album, following the No. 4 peak of 2019’s The Search.

advertisement

24kgoldn’s first full-length album, El Dorado, debuts at No. 7. Born Golden Landis Von Jones, the American rapper’s 2019 EP Dropped Outta College peaked at No. 58. El Dorado contains the former Billboard Canadian Hot 100 No. 1 hit Mood.

Evanescence’s The Bitter Truth debuts at No. 14, earning the highest album sales for the week. It surpasses the No. 16 peak of the Arkansas rock outfit’s album, 2017’s Synthesis and is their highest charting album since their 2011 self-titled album reached No. 2.

Carrie Underwood’s first gospel album, My Savior, enters at No. 15, surpassing the No. 35 peak of her last release, the 2020 holiday album My Gift.

Other debuts in the top 50 include Rod Wave’s Soulfl,y at No. 16; Tate McRae’s Too Young To Be Sad, at No. 23; AJR’s Ok Orchestra, at No. 27; and Ariane Moffatt’s Incarnat at No. 41.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC’s Paul Tuch.

advertisement
Val Blavatnik
Courtesy WMG

Val Blavatnik

Business News

Val Blavatnik to Oversee Warner Music Canada in New Role at Warner Music Group

Blavatnik will oversee Warner Music Canada as managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at WMG. As part of a slew of executive announcements, Simon Robson will be leaving the company, while Alejandro Duque takes the top international role.

Val Blavatnik, the 28-year-old son of Warner Music Group majority owner and vice chairman Len Blavatnik, has been named managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at the Warner Music Group, the company announced Friday (Sept. 25). In his new role the younger Blavatnik, who has held several roles at the company in recent years, and has been a board member since 2023, expects to “unify and drive business and operational strategy across these markets while guiding the company’s investment strategy to support growth,” according to a press release.

The Blavatnik announcement is part of a flurry of new executive announcements that CEO Robert Kyncl made this morning. In addition, Atlantic Music Group chairman/CEO Elliot Grainge will take on ADA in the U.S. as its new chairman, while Alejandro Duque, who has held the dual roles of president of Warner Latin and president of ADA since last July, has been named president of Warner Music International, adding Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa under his oversight. (Duque will continue to oversee ADA outside the U.S.) Zach Friedman, currently COO at Atlantic Music Group, will add the title of vice chair of ADA U.S. to his resume.

keep readingShow less
advertisement