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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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