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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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Kaïa Kater, Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens Nominated for Folk Music Awards at Montreal's Folk Alliance International 2025

Artists who will receive special honours in Montreal next February include Indigo Girls, Leslie Riddle and OKAN .

Folk Alliance International (FAI) has announced the nominees for the International Folk Music Awards, which take place on the first night of FAI’s 37th annual conference on February 19-23, 2025 in Montreal.

Canadian artists are well represented as award recipients and nominees, with Canadian-Grenadian singer-songwriter-instrumentalist Kaïa Kater leading the way. She is nominated in two prestigious categories, Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, for Strange Medicine, whcih features guest spots by Aoife O’Donovan, Taj Mahal and Allison Russell.

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