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Drake Continues To Hold At No. 1 In 8th Week

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy spends its eighth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, once again scoring the highest on-demand stream total.

Drake Continues To Hold At No. 1 In 8th Week

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Drake’s Certified Lover Boy spends its eighth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, once again scoring the highest on-demand stream total.


Lil Nas X’s Montero jumps back to No. 2, Doja Cat’s Planet Her shifts 6-3, and The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love rebounds 7-4.

The top debut of the week belongs to Elton John’s collaborations album The Lockdown Sessions, at No. 5. The album, which contains the hit single Cold Heart with Dua Lipa, matches his highest ever chart peak since the start of the SoundScan era with his 2017 best of release Diamonds.

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Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters debuts at 10, marking her seventh straight top 10 album release.

Brampton, Ontario rapper NorthSideBenji debuts at No. 17 with his first full-length album, The Extravagant Collection. Toronto R&B duo Majid Jordan enters at No. 30 with Wildest Dreams, matching the peak of their last album, 2017’s The Space Between.

Other debuts this week include Dream Theater’s A View From the Top Of The World, at No. 32 (picking up the highest album sales total of the week); Seventeen’s Attacca at No. 48, and Duran Duran’s Future Past at No. 53.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch

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UMG and TikTok Strike Licensing Deal After Three-Month Standoff

UMG allowed its last TikTok license to expire on Feb. 1, citing unfair compensation for its catalog as well as AI and artist safety concerns.

Universal Music Group (UMG) and TikTok have struck a new licensing agreement which will soon bring UMG’s catalog of millions of sound recordings and songs back to TikTok after three months off the platform. Though it is unclear exactly when all of UMG’s catalog will return to the app, a press release about the new license says it will return in “due course” and the two companies are “working expeditiously” to return the music.

UMG’s last license with TikTok expired at the end of January after negotiations soured between the two companies. UMG announced that its music would be pulled from the app starting Feb. 1 in a letter to its artists and songwriters, saying that TikTok refused to pay the “fair value” of music and that it had concerns about TikTok’s stance on AI and artist safety.

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