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Hey Rosetta's Tim Baker Scores A Hit With 1st Solo Release

After two weeks in the runner-up position, Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go returns to No.

Hey Rosetta's Tim Baker Scores A Hit With 1st Solo Release

By FYI Staff

After two weeks in the runner-up position, Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with close to 12,000 total consumption units. The album picks up the highest audio-on-demand streams and digital song download totals and the fourth highest album sales total for the week.


Khalid’s Free Spirit rebounds 3-2 and last week’s chart-topping album, BTS’ Map of The Soul…Persona falls to No. 3.

In its first full week of release, Beyoncé’s Homecoming…The Live Album pops 24-7 with an 85% consumption increase. Her last album, Lemonade, re-enters at 24 with a 689% consumption increase, thanks to its wide availability on streaming services.

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Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys shifts 10-8 in its 52nd week on the chart. Notably, the album has spent a total of 45 weeks in the top ten.

The top debut for the week belongs to Tim Baker’s Forever Overhead, at 13. It is the debut solo album from Hey Rosetta’s front-man, who scored two top ten albums with the band earlier in the decade.

Other debuts in the top 50 this week include Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You, at 17; Cage The Elephant’s Social Cue,s at 21; Mario Pelchat’s Pelchat Aznavour Desormais, at 22, and the Rolling Stones’ Honk at 38.

Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” remains at No. 1 for the third straight week on both the Streaming and Digital Songs charts.

Lil Dicky’s “Earth” debuts at 3 and 5 respectively on the Streaming and Digital Songs charts.

-- All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional material provided by Nielsen Music Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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Music News Digest: CRTC Aims To Fill a Gap for Indigenous Radio in Toronto and Ottawa
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Music News Digest: CRTC Aims To Fill a Gap for Indigenous Radio in Toronto and Ottawa

Also this week: Sled Island reveals initial lineup curated by clipping., Truro hosts Nova Scotia Music Week and more.

The CRTC recently launched a call for applications for FM radio stations to serve Indigenous communities in Toronto and Ottawa. Broadcast Dialogue reports "the call follows the demise of First Peoples Radio’s ELMNT FM stations, which went off the air on Sept. 1 last year. Launched in the fall of 2018, the stations had a goal to 'fill the gap' for urban Indigenous listeners under-represented in the radio landscape. They carried an 'Indigenous-variety' format, featuring both English and Indigenous-language spoken-word and musical programming, with 25% of the playlist dedicated to Indigenous talent.

In its call, the commission says in its view, "there is a need and a demand for radio stations to serve the needs and interests of those communities."

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