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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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Sam Ferrara
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Sam Ferrara

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Obituaries: Toronto Punk Rocker and Artist Sam Ferrara, American Roots Music Publicist Mark Pucci

This week we also acknowledge the passing of David Surkamp, leader of prog rock band Pavlov's Dog.

Sam Ferrara (a.k.a. Screamin' Sam), a musician, singer-songwriter, inventor of instruments and acclaimed artist who was a crucial figure on the original Toronto punk rock scene, died on October 16, at age 72, after a long illness.

Steve Koch, a bandmate and very close friend of Ferrara for almost five decades, supplied Billboard Canada with extensive biographical notes.

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