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Ginette Reno, Arkells Debut With Strong Numbers On This Week's Chart

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” soundtrack remains at No.

Ginette Reno, Arkells Debut With Strong Numbers On This Week's Chart

By FYI Staff

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” soundtrack remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the third week, racking up close to 14,000 equivalent units, an 11% increase over the previous seven day period. The album also earned the most digital song downloads, the fourth highest album sales and on-demand streams in the week. The super-successful album is Lady Gaga’s longest running chart topper to date. Her two previous No. 1 albums, The Fame and Born This Way, both spent two weeks at the top.


Greta Van Fleet’s Anthem of The Peaceful Army leads a pack of five new releases entering the chart in the top six, debuting at 2 with over 13,000 equivalent units, and earning the highest album sales tally for the week. This is the American rock outfit’s first top ten album, surpassing the No. 23 peak of their debut release, 2017’s From the Fires.

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Quebec’s greatly decorated pop singer Ginette Reno’s A Jamais (Forever) debuts at 3 with over 11,000 total equivalent units. It is her first charted album since 2011’s La Musique En Moi debuted at No. 1.

Disturbed’s Evolution lands at 4, marking it as the Chicago metal band’s fifth top five album and first release since 2015’s Immortalized debuted at No. 1.

The teaming of Future & Juice Wrld on Future & Juice WRLD Present… Wrld On Drugs debuts at 5. It matches the peak position of Future’s last duo album, with Young Thug, on 2017’s Super Slimey, and matches the No. 5 peak of Juice Wrld’s first charted album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, in July.

Khalid’s Suncity debuts at 6, his highest charting album to date. It surpasses the No. 7 peak of 2017’s American Teen.

Other new entries in the top 50 include Arkells’ Rally Cry, at 12; Lil Yachty’s Nuthin’ 2 Prove, at 17; Lil Mosey’s Northsbest, at 20; Rm’s mono., at No. 22; the soundtrack to the film Bohemian Rhapsody, at 24, and eclectic Montreal composer Ariane Moffatt’s Petites Mains Precieuses, at 42.

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– All data courtesy of SoundScan with colour commentary provided by Nielsen Music Canada director Paul Tuch.

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Carole Pope and Kevan Staples of Rough Trade
Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

Carole Pope and Kevan Staples of Rough Trade

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Obituaries: Rough Trade Co-Founder Kevan Staples, Country Hall of Famer Dick Damron

This week we also acknowledge the passing of hit Memphis record producer/engineer Terry Manning and Canadian country singer Harry Rusk.

Kevan Staples, a Toronto songwriter, film and TV composer and multi-instrumentalist best known as co-founder of the adventurous Juno-winning rock band Rough Trade, died on March 23, of cancer, at the age of 75.

His creative partnership with charismatic and provocative vocalist and songwriter Carole Pope was at the heart of Rough Trade, a group that made a colourful mark on the Canadian rock scene in the late '70s and early '80s.

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