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Justice Becomes Justin Bieber's 9th No. 1 Album

Justin Bieber and Lana Del Rey have the week's top album debuts; meantime, Morgan Wallen stubbornly remains a success, with his album staying in 2nd place.

Justice Becomes Justin Bieber's 9th No. 1 Album

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Justin Bieber’s Justice debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest album sales, on-demand streams and digital song downloads total for the week. It is his eighth straight chart-topping release and ninth No. 1 overall. The album is already the No. 3 most consumed album so far in 2021, only behind Morgan Wallen and Pop Smoke.


Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album holds at No. 2, Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia remains at No. 3 and Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon stays at No. 4.

The second new entry in the top five belongs to Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club, at No. 5. All six of her studio albums have reached the top five and is her first since the No. 3 Norman Fucking Rockwell in August 2019.

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– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC’s Paul Tuch.

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Canadian Government Introduces Canada Creative Credit to Support 'Artistic Production'
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Canadian Government Introduces Canada Creative Credit to Support 'Artistic Production'

The Mark Carney government's new federal budget also confirms a $600 million investment to provide relief to the audiovisual sector for 2026-27, which was first announced in June.

Canada has built a new support for the creative sector into the new federal budget.

The Carney government's 2026 federal budget was tabled Thursday afternoon (Nov. 5), and it includes a new and forthcoming Canada Creative Credit, described as a tax relief "for Canadian artists to foster creativity, artistic production and cultural entrepreneurship." In a subsequent message posted to X, prime minister Mark Carney revealed that Canadian artists can benefit from an exception of up to $45,000.

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