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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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