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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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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets
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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets

Sources say the BlackRock-backed company bid slightly above $650 million for the assets, though the deal has yet to close.

Apparently, the third time really can be the charm, as sources say Influence Media Partners has emerged as the winner in the auction for the music assets of Anthem Entertainment, the Canadian music firm that houses music publishing assets and recorded masters royalties from the likes of Rush and Timbaland.

While two earlier efforts to sell the firm in 2017 and 2022 came up short, sources suggest that in the third go-round, the successful Goldman Sachs-shopped deal saw at least two bids come in above the $600 million mark, even though most other bidders were said to be in the $500 million to $600 million range before dropping out. In all, sources suggested that about a dozen suitors kicked the tires on Anthem.

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