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Drake Remains King, But Adele Is Set For Another Coronation

Just the whisper of a new song from Adele and two of her albums rocket back onto the Albums chart.

Drake Remains King, But Adele Is Set For Another Coronation

By FYI Staff

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy remains No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the fifth straight week, once again picking up the highest on-demand streams for the week.


Lil Nas X’s Montero holds at 2, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love stays at 3 and Doja Cat’s Planet Her remains at 4.

The top debut of the week belongs to Meek Mill’s Expensive Pain at 5. It is his first release since Championships reached No. 1 in November 2018.

With the release of a new vinyl edition of the album, Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) rockets 102-9, earning the highest album sales total for the week.

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Two more new releases debut in the top 50, with Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga’s Love for Sale at 33, and Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days at 43.

Mario Pelchat’s Comme Un Premier Rendez-Vous bullets 71-27 with the second-highest album sales total of the week.

With all the attention around the announcement of a new Adele single, her previous two albums make big gains on the chart, with 25  rocketing 143-67 and 21 bulleting 150-85.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch

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William Shatner at the 22nd Annual VES Awards hosted by the Visual Effects Society held at The Beverly Hilton on February 21, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.
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William Shatner at the 22nd Annual VES Awards hosted by the Visual Effects Society held at The Beverly Hilton on February 21, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California.

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William Shatner To Go Where He’s Never Gone Before on Heavy Metal Album Featuring Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden Covers

The 94-year-old TV icon teased that the untitled LP will feature 35 "metal virtuosos."

Forget about second acts in American life, TV legend William Shatner is up to his fourth, maybe 10th act at this point. The 94-year-old actor best known for playing the irascible James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek series and movies, as well as police sergeant T.J. Hooker in the 1980s is boldly going where even he hasn’t gone before.

In an Instagram post on Thursday (Feb. 19), the mutli-hyphenate performer who made his musical debut in 1968 with the beyond bizarre The Transformed Man LP featuring his florid readings of The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” and Elton John’s “Rocket Man,” announced that he’s prepping his first heavy metal album at an age where metal typically goes into your body rather than comes out.

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