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Lady Gaga Has This Week's No. 1 Album

Lady Gaga’s Chromatic debuts at No.

Lady Gaga Has This Week's No. 1 Album

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Lady Gaga’s Chromatic debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 28,000 total consumption units, achieving the highest album and digital song sales and on-demand streams for the week. This is her second consecutive number one, following the soundtrack for A Star Is Born, which spent ten non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 in late 2018/early 2019. It also marks her fourth chart-topper to date.


Kygo’s Golden Hour debuts at No. 2. It is the DJ/producer’s highest-charting album to date, surpassing the No. 3 peak of his first charted album, 2016’s Cloud Nine.

Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes, The Weeknd’s After Hours and DaBaby’s Blame It on Baby all fall one position, to Nos. 3, 4 and 5 respectively.

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American hip-hop duo Run The Jewels’ RTJ4 debuts at 10. It’s their first top ten album, easily surpassing the No. 34 peak of their last release, 2017’s Run the Jewels 3.

Diplo’s Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1 debuts at 20, his highest-charting album to date, topping the No. 23 peak of his 2015 collection with Skrillex, Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack U.

Other new entries include Lil Yachty’s Lil Boat 3, at 21; Powfu’s Poems Of The Past, at 53; and country singer Kip Moore’s Wild World, at 54.

–– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by Nielsen Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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Coco Love Alcorn
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Coco Love Alcorn

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Music News Digest: Music Community Rallies to Support Coco Love Alcorn Through Cancer Journey

Also this week: more trouble for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Toronto scene veteran Paul James turns 75 with a free hometown show at The Phoenix and a date is set for the first Canadian Blues Music Awards.

Canadian pop and jazz singer-songwriter and choir leader Coco Love Alcorn has just revealed that she is fighting an aggressive form of cancer. This will involve a long period of chemotherapy, immunotherapy and further surgery. Alcorn explains that "I have had to cancel all my touring, teaching, and performances for 2026 and my local choir is on hiatus till further notice. I also had 3 trips planned to BC this winter/spring to record my new album and that project is also on hold."

A GoFundMe campaign to assist her has been set up. Donate here. The rapid and generous response to her campaign reaffirms the peer respect she enjoys.

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