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Ed Sheeran Topples Drake's 8-Week Chart Supremacy

Ed Sheeran’s = debuts at No.

Ed Sheeran Topples Drake's 8-Week Chart Supremacy

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Ed Sheeran’s = debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest album and digital song sales, and on-demand streams for the week and ending Drake’s eight consecutive weeks run at the top of the chart. It is Sheeran’s fourth consecutive album to debut at No. 1.


The remainder of the top five falls one position from last week’s chart, with Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, Lil Nas X’s Montero, Doja Cat’s Planet Her and The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love sitting at Nos. 2 through 5.

Francophone rapper Enima debuts at No.15 with Resilience, his highest-charted album to date. His previous top peak was #35 with his 2018 release OPN.

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Mastodon’s Hushed and Grim debuts at No. 18, the American metal band’s first release since Emperor Of Sand reached No. 4 in March 2017.

The War On Drugs’ I Don’t Live Here Anymore debuts at No. 33, their first release since A Deeper Understanding peaked at No. 8 in 2017.

Thanks to consumption activity around Halloween for the title cut, Michael Jackson’s Thriller bullets 90-26, the album’s highest chart position in the SoundScan era.

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

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Music News Digest: Owen Riegling Wins Big at 2026 CMAOntario Awards

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Rising country star Owen Riegling won three trophies at the 14th annual CMAOntario Awards, held on May 31 at Port Credit Memorial Arena. Notching two wins apiece were Sacha, Jessica Sevier, and James Barker Band and, for the first time in CMAOntario history, there was a tie for breakthrough artist of the Year with Tyler Lorette and Jessica Sevier sharing the title.

Hosted by award-winning Ontario country artist Jason Blaine and Country Nights host Sam McDaid, the awards show closed out the weekend, which also included a festival, with performances by Riegling, Sully Burrows, Olivia Mae Graham, Sevier, Elyse Saunders, School House, Lorette, Cory Marks, Les Rats d’Swompe and the CMAOntario house band The Western Swing Authority.

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