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On The Charts: September 30, 2019

Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding spends its third straight week at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 17,000 consumption units, again picking up the highest audio-on-

On The Charts: September 30, 2019

By FYI Staff

Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding spends its third straight week at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 17,000 consumption units, again picking up the highest audio-on-demand stream and digital song total. Each of his two chart-topping albums has spent three weeks at No. 1.


Taylor Swift’s Lover edges 3-2, Lil Tecca’s We Love You Tecca rebounds 4-3, and Ed Sheeran’s No. 6 Collaborations Project shifts 5-4.

The top new entry of the week belongs to Blink-182’s NINE, at 5. The album, which scores the highest album sales total of the week, is the California band’s seventh top-five album and first charted release since 2016’s California debuted at No. 1.

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Other new entries in the top 50 include San Diego metal outfit As I Lay Dying’s Shaped by Fire, at 28; Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard’s solo debut, Jaime, at 34; Zac Brown Band’s The Owl, at 39; Tove Lo’s Sunshine Kitty, at 49; and Liam Gallagher’s Why Me? Why Not, at 50.

Lil Tecca’s Ransom remains at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved repeats at the top of the Digital Songs chart.

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

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Cris Derksen
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Cris Derksen

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Obituaries: Acclaimed Cellist & Composer Cris Derksen Mourned by Canadian Musicians and Industry

Also this week: Bob Ezrin and others remember legendary rock producer Jack Douglas, tributes to Hamilton blues and rock bassist Bucky Buchanan and more.

Cris Derksen, a renowned Indigenous cellist and composer, died in a car accident on May 15, at age 45. They were returning from their father's funeral near Slave Lake, Alberta.

An obituary in the Edmonton Journal reports that "Derksen was a beloved fixture on Canada’s classical and stringed music scene. Their style sometimes fused modern electronic sounds and Indigenous rhythms. Derksen was known as a generous mentor.

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