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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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