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Christmas Albums Are Hot This Week, But Adele Is No. 1...Again

Adele’s 30 spends a 2nd straight week at No.

Christmas Albums Are Hot This Week, But Adele Is No. 1...Again

By FYI Staff

Adele’s 30 spends a 2nd straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, once again achieving the highest album sales, on-demand streams and digital song sales for the week.


Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) holds at No. 2, Michael Bublé ’s Christmas edges 4-3, Ed Sheeran’s = drops one position, to No. 4, and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy holds at No. 5.

With the release of the Get Back documentary, the Beatles’ Let It Be bullets 83-23 while their Beatles 1 collection rockets 100-60.

The soundtrack to the animated series Arcane League of Legends also rockets 145-30 in its second week on the chart.

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In addition to the Michael Bublé album, Christmas albums dominate the major movers this week with six other releases landing in the top 30, including albums by Mariah Carey, the Rat Pack and Bing Crosby in the top 20.

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

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Perry Bamonte of The Cure performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre on June 2, 2000 in Mountain View, Calif.
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Perry Bamonte of The Cure performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre on June 2, 2000 in Mountain View, Calif.

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Perry Bamonte, The Cure’s Guitarist & Keyboardist, Dead at 65 After ‘a Short Illness’

He "was a warm hearted and vital part of The Cure story," the band said in a statement.

Perry Bamonte, The Cure‘s guitarist and keyboardist, died over the Christmas break, the band announced in a message posted to its website on Friday (Dec. 26). The musician was 65 years old.

“It is with enormous sadness that we confirm the death of our great friend and bandmate Perry Bamonte, who passed away after a short illness at home over Christmas,” the Grammy-nominated band began its statement. “Quiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative, ‘Teddy’ was a warm-hearted and vital part of The Cure story.”

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