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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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Neil MacGonigill
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Neil MacGonigill

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Obituaries: Canadian Artist Manager/Producer Neil MacGonigill, Grateful Dead Vocalist  Donna Jean Godchaux

This week we also acknowledge the passing of American jazz bassist Ray Drummond, Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis and New Zealnd rock guitarist Robert Taylor.

Neil MacGonigill, a prominent Calgary-based artist manager, producer and record label owner, died on Oct. 31, at age 77.

He played a major role in the careers of such Albertan stars as Jann Arden, k.d. lang, Ian Tyson, Billy Cowsill and Diamond Joe White.

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