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Celine Slays Competition With No. 1 Album Selling 50K+ Copies

Courage is Celine's 15th No. 1 album in Canada and earns the highest one-week-sales total since Taylor Swift’s Reputation sold 80,000 copies in November 2017.

Celine Slays Competition With No. 1 Album Selling 50K+ Copies

By FYI Staff

Celine Dion’s Courage debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 55,000 total consumption units. It is the highest one-week consumption total since Drake’s Scorpion picked up 70,000 in July 2018. With 53,000 albums sold, Courage also has the highest one-week-cash register total since Taylor Swift’s Reputation sold 80,000 copies two years back, in November 2017.


This is Dion's 15th Canadian chart-topping album in the Nielsen SoundScan era, with all four of her albums released this decade reaching No. 1. All in, she has sold 8.3 million albums in Canada in the Nielsen SoundScan era, over three million more than the current runner-up, Eminem.

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Noteworthy, too, is the fact that Courage marks Dion’s fifth US No. 1 album, and her first chart-topper in over 17 years, according to Billboard. She was last at No. 1 with 2002’s A New Day Has Come.

Fellow Canadian artist, Tory Lanez, debuts at No. 2 with Chixtape 5. The album picks up the second-highest audio-on-demand stream total for the week and surpasses the No. 4 peak of his last release, 2018’s Love Me Now? All four of his album releases have peaked in the top five.

Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding falls to No. 3 but continues to have the top audio-on-demand stream total for the week. Taylor Swift’s Lover holds in 4th place with a 46% consumption increase, and last week’s No. 1 album, Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get, drops to 5. Michael Buble’s Christmas jumps 11-6 with a 32% consumption increase.

Other debuts in the top 50 include Lil Peep’s Everybody’s Everything, at 13, Lady Antebellum’s Ocean, at 17, Johnny Reid’s My Kind Of Christmas re-entering at 19, and the Frozen 2 soundtrack, at 36.

— All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional factoids provided by Nielsen Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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Kneecap Blasts Norwegian Government at Oslo Festival, Accusing It of Funding ‘Genocide’ Against Palestinians
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Mo Chara, DJ Provaí and Móglaí Bap of Kneecap performs on the West Holts Stage during during day four of Glastonbury Festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England.

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Kneecap Blasts Norwegian Government at Oslo Festival, Accusing It of Funding ‘Genocide’ Against Palestinians

The Irish rap trio went after the Norwegian government over its investments, which are currently under scrutiny, at Øyafestivalen.

Irish rap group Kneecap – which has drawn a storm of criticism, support, attention and legal action over the past half-year – continued to speak out about the war in Gaza during an afternoon set at the Øyafestivalen in Oslo, Norway, on Friday (Aug. 8).

Right before the trio of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí took the stage, an English-language white-text-on-black-background message played on a video screen, accusing the Norwegian government of “enabling” the “genocide” against the Palestinian people via investments held in the county’s sovereign wealth fund (referenced as “oil pension fund” in the message). “Over 80,000 people have been murdered by Israel in 21 months,” the band’s message continued. “Free Palestine.” The message was greeted readily by a cheering audience. Most estimates (including those from health officials in the area) place the Palestinian death toll at more than 60,000. That number does not distinguish between civilians and Hamas militants. An estimated 18,500 of those killed were children.

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