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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

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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.

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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.

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Canada Announces $600 Million Investment in Music and Media Amidst Online Streaming Act Controversy
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Canada Announces $600 Million Investment in Music and Media Amidst Online Streaming Act Controversy

As the U.S. government and major online streamers like Spotify and Apple Music push back against the so-called "streaming tax," the Canadian federal government will make its own investment to "provide stability and immediate support to Canada’s audio and audiovisual sectors."

The Canadian government is stepping in to support Canadian music and media amidst debates around the Online Streaming Act.

This morning (June 3), the government announced that it will offer immediate financial support for music, audio and audiovisual media with a $600 million yearly investment. The release says funding will "provide stability and immediate support to Canada’s audio and audiovisual sectors and keep our culture accessible and affordable for all Canadians."

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