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Encanto At No. 1 For 9th Week & Lisa LeBlanc Makes A Strong Debut

The Encanto soundtrack remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the ninth straight week and earns the highest on-demand streams for the week.

Encanto At No. 1 For 9th Week & Lisa LeBlanc Makes A Strong Debut

By FYI Staff

The Encanto soundtrack remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the ninth straight week and earns the highest on-demand streams for the week. It is the longest-running No. 1 album since Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon spent 10 non-consecutive weeks at the top in 2020 and the longest consecutive run at No. 1 since Shania Twain’s Up spent 11 straight weeks at the top in late 2002 and early 2003.


Ed Sheeran’s = rebounds 4-2, Lil Durk’s 7220 drops one position to No. 3, Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album edges 5-4 and Doja Cat’s Planet Her moves 6-5.

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With the release of a deluxe edition, Juice WRLD’s Fighting Demons leaps 40-9, the album’s highest chart position since its second week of release in December.

The top new entry for the week belongs to Charli XCX’s Crash at No. 16, her highest-charting album to date.

K-Pop group Stray Kids land their highest charting album as Oddinary comes in at No. 20 with the second-highest album sales total for the week.

Canadian singer-songwriter Lisa LeBlanc’s Chiac Disco debuts at No. 24, scoring the highest album sales total for the week. It is her highest-charting release since 2016’s Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? peaked at No. 8.

Other new entries include American singer-songwriter GAYLE’s A Study of The Human Experience Volume One at No. 43, and Spanish singer Roosalia’s Motomami at No. 49.

– All data courtesy of Luminate Entertainment Data with additional detail provided by LED's Paul Tuch.

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EMPIRE's Tina Davis (left) and Girl Connected's Lola Plaku at Conversations with the Pros at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto on March 28, 2025.
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EMPIRE's Tina Davis (left) and Girl Connected's Lola Plaku at Conversations with the Pros at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto on March 28, 2025.

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On Friday (March 28), Tina Davis, president of EMPIRE, sat down with Girl Connected founder and music industry veteran Lola Plaku at Toronto Metropolitan University for the first in-person Canadian edition of Conversations with the Pros (Billboard Canada was a supporting partner). The series brings in inspiring music industry figures from Girl Connected's international network to talk about their journeys and offer actionable information and advice to help the budding music professionals develop their skills and reach the next level of their careers.

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