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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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Obituaries: Country Music News Publisher Larry Delaney, Former BMG Canada President Bob Jamieson

This week we also acknowledge the passing of R&B hitmaker Peabo Bryson and Canadian steel guitar legend Al Brisco.

Larry (Lawrence) Delaney, publisher of music trade magazine Country Music News and a member of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, died on June 4, at age 83.

On June 4, Delaney posted this farewell message on his Facebook page: ''It's time for me to say goodbye, my friends. I want to thank you for your many years of friendships. You have all had a very special place in my life. Thank you. Larry.''

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