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Jonas Brothers Return With A No. 1 Album

Jonas Brothers’ Happiness Begins debuts at No.

Jonas Brothers Return With A No. 1 Album

By FYI Staff

Jonas Brothers’ Happiness Begins debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with 36,000 total consumption units, and achieves the highest album sales, second highest audio-on-demand streams and third highest digital song download totals for the week. It is the group’s third chart-topping album and first since Lines, Vines and Trying Times hit No. 1 in 2009.


Avicii’s posthumous album Tim rockets 31-3 with a 213% consumption increase. It is his third top three album and first since Stories peaked at No. 3 in October 2015.

Luke Combs’ EP, The Prequel, debuts at 4. It is his highest charting release to date, surpassing the No. 10 peak of his debut album This One’s for You.

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Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack returns to the top ten, moving 14-6 with a 30% consumption increase.

Tyga’s Legendary debuts at 7. It is his second top ten album and first since Careless World: Rise of The Last King peaked at 6 in 2012.

Other new entries in the top 50 include Chicago rapper Polo G’s debut album Die A Legend, at 8, Santana’s Africa Speaks, at 12, Future’s Save Me, at 27, and Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley’s Scriptures, at No. 43.

Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road spends its 10th week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and for the 8th week on the Digital Songs chart.

-- All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional commentary provided by Nielsen Canada director Paul Tuch.

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Val Blavatnik to Oversee Warner Music Canada in New Role at Warner Music Group

Blavatnik will oversee Warner Music Canada as managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at WMG. As part of a slew of executive announcements, Simon Robson will be leaving the company, while Alejandro Duque takes the top international role.

Val Blavatnik, the 28-year-old son of Warner Music Group majority owner and vice chairman Len Blavatnik, has been named managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at the Warner Music Group, the company announced Friday (Sept. 25). In his new role the younger Blavatnik, who has held several roles at the company in recent years, and has been a board member since 2023, expects to “unify and drive business and operational strategy across these markets while guiding the company’s investment strategy to support growth,” according to a press release.

The Blavatnik announcement is part of a flurry of new executive announcements that CEO Robert Kyncl made this morning. In addition, Atlantic Music Group chairman/CEO Elliot Grainge will take on ADA in the U.S. as its new chairman, while Alejandro Duque, who has held the dual roles of president of Warner Latin and president of ADA since last July, has been named president of Warner Music International, adding Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa under his oversight. (Duque will continue to oversee ADA outside the U.S.) Zach Friedman, currently COO at Atlantic Music Group, will add the title of vice chair of ADA U.S. to his resume.

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