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George Returns But Billie's Album Remains No. 1

Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever remains No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the second week and again earning the highest album sales total for the week.

George Returns But Billie's Album Remains No. 1

By FYI Staff

Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever remains No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the second week and again earning the highest album sales total for the week.


The remainder of the top five repeats static, with The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love at No. 2 (picking up the highest on-demand stream total of the week), Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour at No. 3, Doja Cat’s Planet Her at No. 4 and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia at No. 5.

The top new entry of the week belongs to Nas’ King’s Disease II at 9. It is his sixth top ten album and surpasses the No. 12 peak of his last release, 2020’s King’s Disease.

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BTS’ Japanese language compilation album, BTS–The Best, debuts at 44, ringing up the second-highest album sales total in the week.

American hat star Chris Young’s Famous Friends enters at 45; it’s his first release since 2017’s Losing Sleep peaked at 22.

The deluxe 50th anniversary edition of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass enters at 49.

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

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Rheostatics. Back L to R: Tim Vesely, Don Kerr, Kevin Hearn, Dave Bidini, Alex Lifeson Front L to R: Dave Clark, Hugh Marsh
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Rheostatics. Back L to R: Tim Vesely, Don Kerr, Kevin Hearn, Dave Bidini, Alex Lifeson Front L to R: Dave Clark, Hugh Marsh

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Alex Lifeson on New Music With Rheostatics: ‘There Are No Rules or Expectations’

The all-star collective's new album, The Great Lakes Suite, also features Laurie Anderson and the late Gord Downie.

Thirty years ago, Toronto’s Rheostatics went high-concept with Music Inspired by the Group of Seven, a National Gallery of Canada commission to pay homage to early 20th century Canadian landscape painters. It was an arty and abstract conceptual piece, incorporating free-form composition and recorded dialogue from the painters and historical figures such as Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

Ever since then, the band’s Dave Bidini tells Billboard, “We’ve always bandied about, ‘How can we do something like that again?’ So we’ve been searching for a while, and one night I literally had my head on the pillow, and I thought about the Great Lakes.”

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