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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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From left: Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner photographed by Wesley Mann on September 1, 2023 at Long Pond Studio near Hudson, NY.
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From left: Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner photographed by Wesley Mann on September 1, 2023 at Long Pond Studio near Hudson, NY.

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Aaron Dessner and Gracie Abrams have now made three albums together, with the pop star’s third studio effort, Daughter From Hell, arriving July 17. But one song in particular has stirred up a few misconceptions, and in a recent conversation with Billboard, the producer cleared them up.

Hopping on a Zoom call on Tuesday (July 21) — just days after joining Noah Kahan on stage in New York to perform one of The Great Divide songs he produced, a cameo that severe weather almost ruined — Dessner addressed confusion over the production and subject of “Death Wish,” one of the most talked-about tracks on Daughter From Hell. Some listeners have expressed surprise that the spritely album version sounds so different from the somber live piano version Abrams initially recorded and released amid her Secret of Us Tour, questioning why the duo would “change” the “original.” (Spoiler alert: They didn’t.)

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