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Lady Gaga's Chromatic Remains No. 1 For 3rd Week

Lady Gaga’s Chromatic spends its third straight week at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 4,700 total consumption units and picking up the highest album sales total fo

Lady Gaga's Chromatic Remains No. 1 For 3rd Week

By FYI Staff

Lady Gaga’s Chromatic spends its third straight week at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 4,700 total consumption units and picking up the highest album sales total for the week. It becomes her second-longest chart-topping album to date, only surpassed by the A Star Is Born soundtrack, which spent ten weeks at No. 1 beginning in late 2018.


The Weeknd’s After Hours holds at No. 2, DaBaby’s Blame It on Baby moves 5-3 with the highest on-demand streams total for the week, Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes drops to 4, and Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding edges 6-5.

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Rapper Saint Jhn’s Collection One moves 10-8 and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia returns to the top ten, moving 11-9.

The top debut of the week belongs to Puerto Rican rapper Iann Dior’s I’m Gone at No. 37. It is his highest-charting album to date, topping the No. 51 peak of his 2019 release Industry Plant.

Norah Jones’ Pick Me Up Off the Floor enters at 65 with the second-highest album sales total of the week.


— All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by Nielsen Canada director Paul Tuch.

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Howard Willett (right) with Whiskey Jack
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Howard Willett (right) with Whiskey Jack

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Obituaries: Toronto Harmonica Ace/Vocalist Howard Willett Remembered By His Peers

This week we also acknowledge the passing of The Cure keyboardist/guitarist Perry Bamonte, bubblegum hitmaker Jerry Kasenetz, influential U.S. label head Howie Klein and innovative jazz musician Michal Urbaniak.

Howard Willett, a vocalist and harmonica player with the Bebop Cowboys, Whiskey Jack and many other Ontario country/roots outfits, died on Dec. 31. His age has not been reported.

On his Perlich Post blog, Toronto music journalist Tim Perlich says, "I'm saddened to hear that Parry Sound-born singer/harmonica ace Howard Willett has passed away. Howard was a longtime performer on the Toronto scene, well known for his work with the Bebop Cowboys, Swing-a-Billy Orchestra, Whiskey Jack, Junction City AllStars, The Shifters and many others. He'll be greatly missed."

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