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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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Val Blavatnik to Oversee Warner Music Canada in New Role at Warner Music Group

Blavatnik will oversee Warner Music Canada as managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at WMG. As part of a slew of executive announcements, Simon Robson will be leaving the company, while Alejandro Duque takes the top international role.

Val Blavatnik, the 28-year-old son of Warner Music Group majority owner and vice chairman Len Blavatnik, has been named managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at the Warner Music Group, the company announced Friday (Sept. 25). In his new role the younger Blavatnik, who has held several roles at the company in recent years, and has been a board member since 2023, expects to “unify and drive business and operational strategy across these markets while guiding the company’s investment strategy to support growth,” according to a press release.

The Blavatnik announcement is part of a flurry of new executive announcements that CEO Robert Kyncl made this morning. In addition, Atlantic Music Group chairman/CEO Elliot Grainge will take on ADA in the U.S. as its new chairman, while Alejandro Duque, who has held the dual roles of president of Warner Latin and president of ADA since last July, has been named president of Warner Music International, adding Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa under his oversight. (Duque will continue to oversee ADA outside the U.S.) Zach Friedman, currently COO at Atlantic Music Group, will add the title of vice chair of ADA U.S. to his resume.

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