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DaBaby Has This Week's No. 1 Album

DaBaby’s Blame It On Baby debuts at No.

DaBaby Has This Week's No. 1 Album

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DaBaby’s Blame It On Baby debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with 8,000 total consumption units and 10M streams earning it the highest on-demand stream total for the week. This is his first chart-topping album, surpassing the No. 2 peak of Kirk, released in October 2019.


The Weeknd’s After Hours, Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia, all hold their positions from last week, at numbers two through four respectively, while last week’s No. 1 album, Tory Lanez’s The New Toronto 3, drops to No. 5.

Fiona Apple’s Fetch The Bolt Cutters debuts at 10, achieving the highest album sales for the week. This is her highest chart peak since her 1999 release When The Pawn…peaked at 6 and surpasses the No. 13 peak of her last release, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser… in 2012.

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Toronto's DVSN debuts at 13 with A Muse In Her Feelings. It is the duo's highest chart peak to date, surpassing the No. 19 position reached with their last release, 2017’s Morning After.

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

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Departure Executive Director Pat Murphy Leaves to Start New Management Company and Record Label

Post Script launches with management clients Sully Burrows and Choir! Choir! Choir! and a label distribution partnership with Universal Music Canada. Murphy leaves Departure weeks after former executive producer Kevin Barton, while Randy Lennox has also left his post as CEO of co-owner LOFT Entertainment.

Departure's former executive director and head of programming is starting his own venture.

Pat Murphy has left his role at the conference and festival to launch Post Script — a new artist-focused entertainment company combining artist management, recorded music, media and intellectual property.

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