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Encanto S/T Remains No. 1 For 5th Consecutive Week

The Encanto soundtrack remains No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, for the fifth consecutive week and earned the highest on-demand stream total in this weekly period.

Encanto S/T Remains No. 1 For 5th Consecutive Week

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The Encanto soundtrack remains No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, for the fifth consecutive week and earned the highest on-demand stream total in this weekly period.


Ed Sheeran’s = holds at No. 2, Eminem’s Curtain Call remains at No. 3, The Weeknd’s Dawn Fm edges 5-4 and Gunna’s Ds4ever rebounds 8-5.

The top new entry of the week belongs to Portland rapper Yeat’s 2 Alive, at 19. It surpasses the No. 81 peak of his 2021 album Up 2 Me.

Other debuts include Jack Harlow’s That's What They All Say, at No. 34 and comical American singer-songwriter Oliver Tree’s Cowboy Tears at 92.

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For the second straight week, Guylaine Tanguay picks up the highest album sales total with Ginette A Ma Facon.

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

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