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Drake's Certified Lover Boy Still No. 1 Album In Its 3rd Week

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

Drake's Certified Lover Boy Still No. 1 Album In Its 3rd Week

By FYI Staff

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the third consecutive week, once again picking up the highest on-demand streams for the week. It is his longest-running chart-topping album since Views spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2016.


Lil Nas X’s first full-length album, Montero, debuts at No. 2 with the highest album sales and digital song sales and the second-highest on-demand stream total for the week. His EP 7 spent two weeks at No. 1 in 2019.

Kanye West’s Donda, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love and Doja Cat’s Planet Her each drop one position to Nos. 3, 4 and 5 respectively.

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A pair of World music albums land inside the top 50 this week, led by Punjabi singer Karan Aujla’s Bacthafu*Up debuting at 19. Nigerian singer Ckay’s 2019 album Ckay The First bullets 92-32 in its second week on the chart.

 

 

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

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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets
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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets

Sources say the BlackRock-backed company bid slightly above $650 million for the assets, though the deal has yet to close.

Apparently, the third time really can be the charm, as sources say Influence Media Partners has emerged as the winner in the auction for the music assets of Anthem Entertainment, the Canadian music firm that houses music publishing assets and recorded masters royalties from the likes of Rush and Timbaland.

While two earlier efforts to sell the firm in 2017 and 2022 came up short, sources suggest that in the third go-round, the successful Goldman Sachs-shopped deal saw at least two bids come in above the $600 million mark, even though most other bidders were said to be in the $500 million to $600 million range before dropping out. In all, sources suggested that about a dozen suitors kicked the tires on Anthem.

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