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Dallas Smith Has This Week's Top Album Debut, But Ariana's No. 1

Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with a total of 7,000 total consumption units. It is the album’s third week at the top.

Dallas Smith Has This Week's Top Album Debut, But Ariana's No. 1

By FYI Staff

Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with a total of 7,000 total consumption units. It is the album’s third week at the top. The single “7 Rings” holds at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart.


Juice Wrld’s Death Race for Love drops to 2nd place, Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack holds at 3, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN bullets 6-4, and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack drops to 5th place.

It was an unusually quiet week for new releases, with the loftiest debut for a first-week album belonging to Dallas Smith with The Fall, at 91-earning it the highest selling Country release of the week.

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-- All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional notes provided by Nielsen Music Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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From left: Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner photographed by Wesley Mann on September 1, 2023 at Long Pond Studio near Hudson, NY.
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From left: Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner photographed by Wesley Mann on September 1, 2023 at Long Pond Studio near Hudson, NY.

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Aaron Dessner Sets the Record Straight on Gracie Abrams’ ‘Death Wish’: It’s ‘Definitely Not’ About Taylor Swift

The producer also shared how he ended up performing with Noah Kahan over the weekend.

Aaron Dessner and Gracie Abrams have now made three albums together, with the pop star’s third studio effort, Daughter From Hell, arriving July 17. But one song in particular has stirred up a few misconceptions, and in a recent conversation with Billboard, the producer cleared them up.

Hopping on a Zoom call on Tuesday (July 21) — just days after joining Noah Kahan on stage in New York to perform one of The Great Divide songs he produced, a cameo that severe weather almost ruined — Dessner addressed confusion over the production and subject of “Death Wish,” one of the most talked-about tracks on Daughter From Hell. Some listeners have expressed surprise that the spritely album version sounds so different from the somber live piano version Abrams initially recorded and released amid her Secret of Us Tour, questioning why the duo would “change” the “original.” (Spoiler alert: They didn’t.)

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