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Charlotte Cardin's Phoenix Remains No. 1 Album For 2nd Week

Charlotte Cardin’s Phoenix remains at No.

Charlotte Cardin's Phoenix Remains No. 1 Album For 2nd Week

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Charlotte Cardin’s Phoenix remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the second straight week, and again earning the highest album sales and digital song downloads for the week. She is the first Canadian female artist to spend multiple weeks at No. 1 since Celine Dion’s Encore Un Soir spent three weeks at the top in September 2016.


DJ Khaled’s Khaled Khaled debuts at No. 2 with the highest on-demand stream total in the week. It is his third straight top two album and is the follow-up to his first No. 1 album, 2019’s Father of Asahd.

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Justin Bieber’s Justice, The Weeknd’s The Highlights and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia each fall one position to Nos. 3, 4 and 5 respectively.

Thomas Rhett’s Country Again (Side A) debuts at No. 13, his first release since Center Point Road reached No. 2 in May 2019.

Gojira’s Fortitude comes in at 15, the French heavy metal band’s first release since 2016’s Magma peaked at 17 in 2016.

Other new entries include Brit rock band Royal Blood’s Typhoons at No. 34, Coeur De Pirate’s solo piano album Perséides at 40, and at debuting at 49 is Canadian tenor Marc Hervieux’s Nostalgia 2.

 

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

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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.

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