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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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Divide Between Québec Institutions, Artists and Consumers Grows as Government Debates French Music Streaming Quotas

A new survey measures attitudes around Bill 109, which would require digital platforms to prioritize French-language cultural content.

Debate over Québec’s Bill 109 is resurfacing with new force, as fresh consumer data adds a critical layer to the conversation.

A Léger survey released in late November shows that most Québec music streaming users oppose government intervention in determining what music appears on digital platforms — a notable finding as the province continues to deliberate on the bill.

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