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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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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets
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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets

Sources say the BlackRock-backed company bid slightly above $650 million for the assets, though the deal has yet to close.

Apparently, the third time really can be the charm, as sources say Influence Media Partners has emerged as the winner in the auction for the music assets of Anthem Entertainment, the Canadian music firm that houses music publishing assets and recorded masters royalties from the likes of Rush and Timbaland.

While two earlier efforts to sell the firm in 2017 and 2022 came up short, sources suggest that in the third go-round, the successful Goldman Sachs-shopped deal saw at least two bids come in above the $600 million mark, even though most other bidders were said to be in the $500 million to $600 million range before dropping out. In all, sources suggested that about a dozen suitors kicked the tires on Anthem.

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