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Drake Reigns Strong, In His 2nd Week With Scorpion Release

Drake’s Scorpion holds at number one for the second straight week on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with 34,000 total consumption units, the third highest weekly total so far in 2018

Drake Reigns Strong, In His 2nd Week With Scorpion Release

By FYI Staff

Drake’s Scorpion holds at number one for the second straight week on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with 34,000 total consumption units, the third highest weekly total so far in 2018.


The album again picks up the highest sales, song downloads and audio on-demand stream total for the week. It is his third straight album to score multiple weeks at the top of the chart. The single “In My Feelings” holds at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and bullets 37-2 on the Digital Songs chart.

Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys rebounds 3-2, XXXtentacion’s ? moves 5-3, Cardi B’s Invasion Of Privacy jumps 6-4 and Shawn Mendes’ self-titled album moves 9-5.

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Future’s streaming only album Beast Mode 2 is the top new entry of the week, landing at No. 13. It is his first release to not debut in the top ten.

In a quiet week for new releases, only two other albums enter in the top 60. Meek Mill’s Legends of the Summer lands at 37 and Years & Years’ Palo Santo debuts at 52.

— All data courtesy of SoundScan with colour detail provided by Nielsen Music Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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Awards

Jeremy Dutcher Wins the 2024 Polaris Music Prize for 'Motewolonuwok'

The winner was revealed tonight (September 17) at the gala at Massey Hall in Toronto, with Dutcher becoming the first two-time winner of the prize.

Jeremy Dutcher has won the 2024 Polaris Music Prize for Motewolonuwok, making history as the first two-time winner of the prize.

Dutcher will take home the $50,000 prize, which goes to the best Canadian album of the year, as determined by a jury of experts and based solely on artistic merit. He first won the prize in 2018, for Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa.

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