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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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Bloc Québécois Wants Streaming Services to Pay to Fund Canadian Content

The Canadian political party will use its Opposition Day today (Oct. 22) to file a motion calling for streaming services to contribute to funding the cultural sector. It is also asking the Liberal government to disburse the $600 million it promised to invest in June, as the debate surrounding the polarizing Online Streaming Act continues.

The Bloc Québécois is getting into the Online Streaming Act debate.

The Quebec political party is demanding immediate funding of the Canadian cultural sector and accountability on behalf of major streaming services.

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