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Luke Combs, Ali Gatie Have Hot New Album Entries This Week

Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get debuts at No.

Luke Combs, Ali Gatie Have Hot New Album Entries This Week

By FYI Staff

Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with just over 10,000 total consumption units and earning the highest album sales and digital song download total for the week. It is his first chart-topping album to date, surpassing the No. 4 peak of The Prequel EP in June. It is also the first No. 1 album by a Country artist since Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty landed in September 2018.


Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding drops to 2 and City And Colour’s A Pill For Loneliness returns to the top ten, placing at No. 3.

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Lil Mosey’s Certified Hitmaker debuts at 8, his highest-charting album to date. It surpasses the No. 20 peak of his first charted album, 2018’s Northsbest.

Toronto-area singer Ali Gatie debuts at 32 with his first charted album, YOU.

Big movers this week include Michael Buble’s Christmas 30-11 (+81%), Rex Orange County’s Pony (+212%), and Doja Cat’s Hot Pink 178-36 (+144%).

Tones And I’s The Kids Are Coming holds at 14. The album includes their first charted song, Dance Monkey, which holds at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart and jumps to No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart.

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

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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​
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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​

The man behind one of Canada's most successful indie labels talks about the late-blooming success of French-language streaming record-holder Patrick Watson, why he builds long-term relationships with artists, and why it's important for the indie sector to work together.

Justin West is a leader and advocate in Canada’s independent music scene, but he didn’t plan it out that way. When he started his record label Secret City Records in Montreal in the mid-2000s, it was out of necessity. He had met an artist he loved and wanted to build a career with, and the label was a means to do it. That artist was Patrick Watson, and 20 years later he — and Secret City — are more successful than ever.

West — a multiple time Billboard Canada Power Player – leads one of the biggest indie labels in Canada while also advocating for the sector on multiple boards both locally and internationally. When we speak to him for this Executive of the Week interview, he’s just returned from Banff for the National Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Culture, and is a central figure in discussions around the Online Streaming Act and collective negotiations with online streaming platforms.

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