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Chart Toppers: Adele, Michael Bublé, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran

Adele’s 30 holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the third straight week, earning the highest album sales and on-demand streams in the period.

Chart Toppers: Adele, Michael Bublé, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran

By FYI Staff

Adele’s 30 holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the third straight week, earning the highest album sales and on-demand streams in the period.


Michael Bublé’s Christmas edges 3-2 and Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) drops to 3.

Ed Sheeran’s = remains at 4 and Elton John’s The Lockdown Sessions sprints 20-11. Both albums contain their new Merry Christmas seasonal duet, which is this week’s No. 1 selling digital song.

American rapper Polo G’s Hall of Fame rockets 64-5 thanks to a new deluxe version of the album. The title originally peaked at 2 when it was released in June.

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The top debut of the week belongs to established Quebec City rapper Souldia’s Dixque D’Art, at 25. It is his highest-charting album since Sirvivant reached No. 22 in November 2018.

Other debuts include Blue Rodeo’s Many a Mile at 45; Spanish hardcore band Niño’s Jefe, at 52; and Danish rock unit Volbeat’s Servant of The Mind, at 56.

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

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Last week, Buffy Sainte-Marie returned her Order of Canada and affirmed she is not a Canadian citizen. This week, the Junos and Polaris Prize decided she no longer meets their eligibility requirements and stripped her of the awards.

That was the biggest music story in Canada this week, while other hot-button issues continued to play out. Celine Dion warned of AI theft of her voice. Drake made cryptic comments about his next move following his high-profile beef. The Trump-fuelled chaos at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts meant another big cancellation.

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