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Kanye West Has This Week's Top Album

Kanye West’s Donda debuts at No.

Kanye West Has This Week's Top Album

By FYI Staff

Kanye West’s Donda debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest one week on-demand stream total in 2021 and, with over 26,000 equivalent albums, achieving the highest one-week total since Taylor Swift’s evermore in December 2020. Adding to the stats, with over 31M on-demand streams, Donda achieves the highest one-week total since Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die in July 2020. It is West’ eighth chart-topping album and first since 2019’s Jesus Is King.


The No. 1 album for the last two weeks, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love, drops to 2nd place, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour drops to 3rd place, and Doja Cat’s Planet Her falters one place to land in 4th place on the chart.

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Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power debuts at 5 with the highest album sales total for the week. All four of her studio albums have reached the top five.

Lil Tecca’s We Love You Tecca 2 enters at 9, his follow-up to 2020’s Virgo World that peaked at 6.l

OneRepublic’s Human debuts at 12, becoming the ensemble’s first release since 2016’s Oh My My reached 4.

Other new releases in the top 50 include Belly’s See You Next Wednesday, at No. 26, and Nelly’s Heartland, at 37.

With all the media attention around two new songs from Abba, their best of collection, Abba Gold, bolts 51-39, giving the group its highest album peak since August 2018.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch

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Ed Sheeran performs onstage at iHeartRadio Z100's Jingle Ball 2025 Presented by Capital One held at Madison Square Garden on December 12, 2025 in New York, New York.
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Ed Sheeran performs onstage at iHeartRadio Z100's Jingle Ball 2025 Presented by Capital One held at Madison Square Garden on December 12, 2025 in New York, New York.

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Ed Sheeran Addresses Controversy at First Show Since Openers, Backing Band Dropped Off Tour, Calls It ‘The Best Show of My Life’

Before his show in Philadelphia, Sheeran read a statement acknowledging the issue of Israel and Palestine, but still tried to keep things neutral.

Ed Sheeran needed to address the situation before he could start playing guitar. It wasn’t how he wanted to start his show, and he’s made it abundantly clear that the last thing he wants around him is controversy or, in his words, to be an “activist musician.”

But here he was, at the first show after his opener and friend Macklemore was kicked off the tour, following pressure by a group of venue owners led by Robert Kraft who took issue with Macklemore’s statement of support toward Palestine. That led to the rest of the tour’s openers and even Sheeran’s backing band for the tour dropping off the tour in solidarity with Macklemore — all of which became a huge news story and PR nightmare for the usually very un-controversial Sheeran. And though he had already made one highly scrutinized statement online while the news story was at its most potent, Sheeran felt the need to address the crowd at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday night (Sept. 19) in person, before the show really started.

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.

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