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Les Cowboys Fringants Debut On National Chart With Frisky Album

The Weeknd’s The Highlights returns to Number 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest digital song download total for the week.

Les Cowboys Fringants Debut On National Chart With Frisky Album

By FYI Staff

The Weeknd’s The Highlights returns to Number 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest digital song download total for the week. The album previously topped the chart in its first week of release in mid-February. Notable is the fact that four of his five chart-topping albums have spent multiple weeks at No. 1.


Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album falls to No. 2, with the highest on-demand stream total for the week.

Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia  shifts 4-3, switching positions with Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon, and The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love remains at No. 5.

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Both of Taylor Swift’s releases from 2020 return to the top ten, with evermore moving 12-6 and folklore rocketing 18-9.

American R&B singer Giveon’s When It’s All Said and Done…Take Time is the top new entry for the week, debuting at No. 15. It surpasses the peak positions of his two previous charting EPs.

A pair of Quebec artists enter the top 30, with folk-rock group Les Cowboys Fringants’ Les Nuits De Repentigny at No. 23, and C&W singer Irvin Blais’ Leda at No. 27. Selena Gomez’s Revelacion debuts at No. 38.


– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC’s Paul Tuch.

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Tyler Shaw at Eurovision Announcement at CBC in Toronto on Oct. 27, 2026.
Courtesy of CBC/Radio-Canada, photo taken by Shawn Goldberg

Tyler Shaw at Eurovision Announcement at CBC in Toronto on Oct. 27, 2026.

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