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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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Catherine O'Hara attends the U.K. premiere of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' at Cineworld Leicester Square on Aug. 29, 2024, in London.
Catherine O'Hara attends the U.K. premiere of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' at Cineworld Leicester Square on Aug. 29, 2024, in London.
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Obituaries: Canadian Comedy Queen Catherine O'Hara, Pioneering Reggae Drummer/Producer Sly Dunbar

This week we also acknowledge the passing of Canadian jazz trombonist and composer Ian MacDougall, Toronto bassoonist Jeff Burke and American percussionist Mingo Lewis.

Catherine O’Hara, an award-winning Canadian comic actor and screenwriter known for her roles in acclaimed comedy series SCTV and Schitt's Creek plus such hit movies as Home Alone and Beetlejuice, died on Jan. 30, at age 71.

An obituary in Billboard reported that "O’Hara died at her home in Los Angeles 'following a brief illness,' according to a statement from her agency, CAA."

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