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James Taylor Has This Week's No. 1 Album

JT's back in the high-life with his first chart-topping album in the Canada SoundScan era, and his first charting album since 2015’s Before This World peaked at No. 10.

James Taylor Has This Week's No. 1 Album

By FYI Staff

James Taylor’s American Standard debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 22,000 total consumption units and achieving the highest album sales total for the week. It is JT’s first chart-topping album in the Canada SoundScan era and his first charting album since 2015’s Before This World peaked at No. 10.


Lil Baby’s My Turn debuts at 2, scoring 13-million on-demand streams, the highest total in the week. It is the Atlanta rapper’s highest-charting album to date, surpassing the No. 3 peak of Drip Harder in October 2018. All four of his albums have reached the top ten.

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Justin Bieber’s Changes falls back one position to 3, last week’s No. 1 album, BTS’ Map of The Soul: 7, falls to 4, and Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By drops to 5th place..

Five Finger Death Punch’s F8 debuts at No. 10, making it the Vegas heavy metal band’s sixth top ten album and the first to chart since And Justice For None peaked at No. 4 in May 2018.

Other debuts include Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG, at 17, and G Herbo’s PTSD, at 32.

Roddy Ricch’s The Box spends its ninth week at the top of the Streaming Songs chart; Lady Gaga’s Stupid Love debuts at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart-her sixth digital song chart-topper and first since Shallow spent a record 24 weeks at No. 1 beginning in October 2018.

— All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by Nielsen Canada Director, Paul Tuch.

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Daniel Lanois Signs Extensive Licensing Deal With Warner Records

Under the deal, which covers solo and collaborative albums, 12 of the star Canadian producer and artist's catalogue titles have become available via streaming partners, including his gold-selling 1989 solo debut Acadie.

Acclaimed record producer, singer, songwriter and musician Daniel Lanois has signed an extensive and career-spanning licensing deal with Warner Records in the U.S.

The new deal sees 12 of the Canadian artist's catalogue titles now become available via streaming partners, and it marks the return of Lanois to the Warner Records roster. His lavishly praised 1989 solo debut, Acadie, was released via Opal/Warner Bros in 1989, and it remains his most popular solo work, certified Gold by Music Canada in 1991. A second solo album, 1993's For The Beauty of Wynona, also came out on Warner.

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