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On The Charts: March 22, 2020

Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake spends its second week at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart and chalking up 17,000 total consumption units.

On The Charts: March 22, 2020

By FYI Staff

Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake spends its second week at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart and chalking up 17,000 total consumption units. The album again has the highest on-demand stream total for the week with 23 million reported. It is the second album in 2020 to spend multiple weeks at the top of the chart, joining Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By.


Justin Bieber’s Changes holds at 2, Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding edges 5-3, Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By drops one position to 4, and Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial slides 6-5 as his single The Box remains at the top of the Streaming Songs chart.

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Two albums debut in the top ten this week, led by Niall Horan’s Heartbreak Weather at 6, picking up the second-highest album sales total for the week. It is the follow-up to his first solo album, 2017’s No. 1 Flicker.

Don Toliver’s debut studio album, Heaven or Hell, debuts at 7.

Other new entries in the top 50 include Rich The Kid’s Boss Man at 28, Jack Harlow’s Sweet Action at 32 and Jay Electronica’s A Written Testimony at 43.

--- All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by Nielsen Canada Director Paul Tuch

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