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Drake's Certified Lover Boy Holds At No. 1 In Fourth Week

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy spends its 4th consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, again picking up the highest on-demand streams for the week.

Drake's Certified Lover Boy Holds At No. 1 In Fourth Week

By FYI Staff

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy spends its 4th consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, again picking up the highest on-demand streams for the week.


The remainder of the top five remain the same from last week with Lil Nas X’s Montero at No. 2, Kanye West’s Donda at 3, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love at 4, and Doja Cat’s Planet Her at 5.

The top new entry of the week belongs to YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Sincerely Kentrell, at 8. This is his second top ten album, following 2020’s Top, which reached No. 4.

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Other debuts this week include G-Eazy’s These Things Happen Too at 15; UMC Quebec’s popular singer-songwriter Patrice Michaud’s Grand Voyage Desorganise, at 69, and veteran Quebec singer Mario Pelchat celebrates a 40-year career with his double album, Comme Un Premier Rendez-Vous, at 71.

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

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