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Drake Nets His 10th No. 1 Album With 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes'

Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes debuts at No.

Drake Nets His 10th No. 1 Album With 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes'

By FYI Staff

Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 20,000 total consumption units and achieving the week’s top on-demand streams total in the week with 24-million registered. This is his tenth chart-topping album and second straight, following Care Package in August 2019. It is also the fourth No. 1 album so far in 2020 from a Canadian artist, following Justin Bieber, The Weeknd and Tory Lanez.


Kenny Chesney’s Here and Now debuts at 2, picking up the highest album sales total for the week. It is his highest chart peak since he reached No. 4 with Life on A Rock in 2013. It matches Alan Doyle’s Rough Side Out for the highest-peaking Country album so far in 2020.

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Last week’s chart-topping album, The Weeknd’s After Hours, drops to No. 3.

Lil Baby’s My Turn rockets 36-4, thanks to the release of a deluxe version of the album, which debuted at No. 2 in early March.

DaBaby’s Blame It on Baby falls to 5.

The only other album to debut in the top 100 this week is North Carolina Christian act Elevation Worship’s Graves into Gardens, at 66.

Luke Combs’ Six Feet Apart debuts at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart, surpassing his previous peak at No. 5 peak with Beer Never Broke My Heart in May 2019.

–– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data/Nielsen Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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Daniel Lanois
Marthe Vannebo

Daniel Lanois

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Daniel Lanois Signs Extensive Licensing Deal With Warner Records

Under the deal, which covers solo and collaborative albums, 12 of the star Canadian producer and artist's catalogue titles have become available via streaming partners, including his gold-selling 1989 solo debut Acadie.

Acclaimed record producer, singer, songwriter and musician Daniel Lanois has signed an extensive and career-spanning licensing deal with Warner Records in the U.S.

The new deal sees 12 of the Canadian artist's catalogue titles now become available via streaming partners, and it marks the return of Lanois to the Warner Records roster. His lavishly praised 1989 solo debut, Acadie, was released via Opal/Warner Bros in 1989, and it remains his most popular solo work, certified Gold by Music Canada in 1991. A second solo album, 1993's For The Beauty of Wynona, also came out on Warner.

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