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BTS Tops Justin Bieber's Changes In Week Two

BTS’ Map of The Soul: 7 debuts at No.

BTS Tops Justin Bieber's Changes In Week Two

By FYI Staff

BTS’ Map of The Soul: 7 debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 23,000 total consumption units, earning the highest album and digital songs sales and the second-highest on-demand stream total for the week. It is the K-Pop band’s third straight chart-topping album and their highest one-week consumption total to date.


Last week’s No. 1 album, Justin Bieber’s Changes, slips to No. 2 but continues to have the highest on-demand stream total.

Ozzy Osbourne’s first studio album in nearly ten years, Ordinary Man, debuts at 3, with the second-highest album sales total for the week. It is his highest-charting album since Down To Earth peaked at 2 in 2001, and his first charting album since 2010’s Scream reached No. 4.

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Eminem’s Music to Be Murdered By edges 5-4 and Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial rebounds 7-5 as his single, The Box, spends its eighth straight week at the top of the Streaming Songs chart.

Pop Smoke’s Meet the Woo 2 jumps to its highest peak to date, moving 11-8. The artist was killed on February 19th.

Other new entries this week include Youngboy Never Broke Again’s Still Flexin, Still Steppin’ at 21; Matt Holubowski’s Weird One,s at 33; 2freres’ A Tous Les Vents, at 42; Matthew Good’s Moving Walls at 49; and Sarah Harmer’s Are You Gone at 63. It is her first charted album since 2010.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by Nielsen Director Paul Tuch.

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