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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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Blavatnik will oversee Warner Music Canada as managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at WMG. As part of a slew of executive announcements, Simon Robson will be leaving the company, while Alejandro Duque takes the top international role.

Val Blavatnik, the 28-year-old son of Warner Music Group majority owner and vice chairman Len Blavatnik, has been named managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at the Warner Music Group, the company announced Friday (Sept. 25). In his new role the younger Blavatnik, who has held several roles at the company in recent years, and has been a board member since 2023, expects to “unify and drive business and operational strategy across these markets while guiding the company’s investment strategy to support growth,” according to a press release.

The Blavatnik announcement is part of a flurry of new executive announcements that CEO Robert Kyncl made this morning. In addition, Atlantic Music Group chairman/CEO Elliot Grainge will take on ADA in the U.S. as its new chairman, while Alejandro Duque, who has held the dual roles of president of Warner Latin and president of ADA since last July, has been named president of Warner Music International, adding Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa under his oversight. (Duque will continue to oversee ADA outside the U.S.) Zach Friedman, currently COO at Atlantic Music Group, will add the title of vice chair of ADA U.S. to his resume.

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