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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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Canada Music Fund to Receive $67 Million Boost as Part of $600 Million CanCon​ Investment in 2026 Federal Budget
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Canada Music Fund to Receive $67 Million Boost as Part of $600 Million CanCon​ Investment in 2026 Federal Budget

The Carney government has outlined the details of its $600 investment to the cultural sector, which includes $67 million allocated to the music industry. The funds will be distributed to the Fund's five recipients, including FACTOR and Musicaction.

The Canada Music Fund is getting a new boost from the federal government.

At last night's ADISQ Gala in Montreal (Nov. 8), the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Marc Miller, announced that the federal government will invest $67 million to the Canada Music Fund, as part of the government's promised $600 million investment into the cultural sector. The sum was first announced in June to provide "immediate relief" to the country's audio and audiovisual sector and confirmed for 2026-27 in the latest federal budget, which was tabled last week. Over the weekend, Ottawa gave a long-awaited breakdown of how the funds will be allocated.

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