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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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Billboard Canada FYI Music News Digest: FONTINE, Leith Ross and William Prince Lead Western Canadian Music Awards Nominees

Also this week: A free music films series at Montreal Jazz Festival, Siibii is on a roll and new music from Tyler Ellis, David Occhipinti and Derek Downham.

The Western Canadian Music Alliance recently announced the nominees for the 2026 Western Canadian Music Awards. Three artists from Manitoba, FONTINE, Leith Ross and William Prince, head the nominees list with three nods apiece, followed by ARDN, Begonia, Blue Moon Marquee & Northern Cree, Boy Golden, Burnstick, Calling All Captains, Empanadas Ilegales, Foxwarren, Katie Tupper, Mariel Buckley and The Mbira Renaissance Band, with two nominations each. The winners will be named at a special evening event during BreakOut West, which takes place Sept. 30 - Oct. 4 in Victoria.

This 24th edition of the BreakOut West conference and festival is supported by Music BC, Creative BC and the British Columbia provincial government and is hosted by Victoria for the first time since 2015. Voting has begun and closes June 18 and is open to all members of all western Provincial and Territorial Music Industry Associations. The full list of nominees is on BreakOut West's website.

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