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Justin Bieber Is Back At No. 1

Justin Bieber’s Justice returns to No.

Justin Bieber Is Back At No. 1

By FYI Staff

Justin Bieber’s Justice returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the fourth non-consecutive week, with the highest on-demand streams and digital song download totals for the week.


Slime Language 2, the collaborative compilation album from Young Thug and Gunna, and featuring appearances from a large number of hip-hop stars, debuts at No. 2. It surpasses the No. 11 peak of the first Slime Language album in 2018.

Last week’s chart-topping album, Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version), drops to 3rd place.

Quebec alt-rock band Your Favorite Enemies’ frontman Alex Henry Foster enters at 4 with the live release, Standing Under Bright Lights, scoring the highest album sales for the week. It tops the No. 6 peak of his first solo album, 2018’s Windows in the Sky.

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Nashville’s Eric Church’s Heart debuts at 10. It is his fifth straight top ten album and the first release since 2018’s Desperate Man reached No. 5.

Michigan rock outfit Greta Van Fleet’s The Battle At Garden’s Gate enters at 11, the rockers’ follow-up to their 2018 debut No. 2 album Anthem Of The Peaceful Army.

Offspring’s Let the Bad Times Roll, their first full-length album since 2012, debuts at 16.

Other new entries include (former Karkwa singer-songwriter) Louis-Jean Cormier’s Le Ciel Est Au Plancher at 31, and US death-metal band Cannibal Corpse’s Violence Unimagined, at 53.

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

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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​
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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​

The man behind one of Canada's most successful indie labels talks about the late-blooming success of French-language streaming record-holder Patrick Watson, why he builds long-term relationships with artists, and why it's important for the indie sector to work together.

Justin West is a leader and advocate in Canada’s independent music scene, but he didn’t plan it out that way. When he started his record label Secret City Records in Montreal in the mid-2000s, it was out of necessity. He had met an artist he loved and wanted to build a career with, and the label was a means to do it. That artist was Patrick Watson, and 20 years later he — and Secret City — are more successful than ever.

West — a multiple time Billboard Canada Power Player – leads one of the biggest indie labels in Canada while also advocating for the sector on multiple boards both locally and internationally. When we speak to him for this Executive of the Week interview, he’s just returned from Banff for the National Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Culture, and is a central figure in discussions around the Online Streaming Act and collective negotiations with online streaming platforms.

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