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Lennie's 'Dance' Butts Celine Into 2nd Place

For the second straight week, a legendary Canadian artist scores the No.

Lennie's 'Dance' Butts Celine Into 2nd Place

By FYI Staff

For the second straight week, a legendary Canadian artist scores the No. 1 album as Leonard Cohen’s Thanks for the Dance debuts at the top of the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with close to 10,000 total consumption units. The album picks up the highest sales of the week with 9,400 units sold. It is his fourth straight studio album to debut at No. 1 and first since You Want It Darker in October 2016, two weeks before his passing.


Last week’s No. 1 album, Celine Dion’s Courage, drops to No. 2, picking up the second-highest sales total for the week with 8,300 units.

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Coldplay’s Everyday Life debuts at No. 3. It is the band’s seventh release to peak in the top three and surpasses the No. 10 peak of their last studio release, 2017’s Kaleidoscope EP.

Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding drops one position, to 4, and continues to have the highest audio-on-demand stream total for the week.

Isabelle Boulay’s holiday album En Attendant Noel debuts at 5, her highest-charting album since Merci Serge Reggiani reached No. 4 in 2014.

Trippie Redd’s A Love Letter to You 4 debuts at 6, the American rapper’s fourth straight top ten album and highest chart peak since his first charted album, Life’s A Trip, peaked at 5 in August 2018.

The Frozen 2 soundtrack rockets 36-7 with a 282% consumption increase.

Three other new releases debut in the top 50: Jason Aldean’s 9 enters at 14, Ynw Melly’s Melly vs. Melvin lands at 17, and Beck’s Hyperspace coming in at 48.

Tones And I’s Dance Monkey holds at No. 1 on both the Streaming and Digital Song charts.

Two songs from Canadian artists score the highest new entries on the Streaming Song charts this week as The Weeknd’s Heartless and Partynextdoor’s Loyal both land inside the top 15.

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

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Ruth Jones McVeigh
Mariposa Folk Festival/Six String Nation

Ruth Jones McVeigh

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Obituaries: Mariposa Folk Festival Co-Founder Ruth Jones McVeigh, Founding Grateful Dead Member Bob Weir

This week we also acknowledge the passing of Toronto musician and composer Bob Stevenson, influential New York filmmaker Amos Poe and English bassist Andrew Bodnar.

Ruth (Major) Jones McVeigh, an author, journalist and a writer, journalist, and cultural builder best known as co-founder of Canada's legendary and long-running Mariposa Folk Festival, died on Jan. 7, at age 99.

In its obituary, CBC identifies Jones McVeigh "a driving force behind the creation of the enduring, community-oriented annual musical gathering that's withstood location changes and financial challenges to become one of the longest-running folk festivals in North America.. Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan are among the scores of artists who attended the festival since its founding in 1961 and graced its stages."

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