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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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Music News Digest: National Music Centre Opens OHSOTO’KINO Recording Bursary for Indigenous Artists, Great Lake Swimmers Hit The Road

Also this week: Toronto's Our Music Festival returns for a third edition, Wavemakers: Music Futures Conference & Showcase launches in Halifax.

OHSOTO’KINO is an Indigenous programming initiative from the National Music Centre focusing on three elements: creation of new music in NMC’s recording studios, artist development through a music incubator program and exhibitions via the annually updated Speak Up! gallery. The OHSOTO’KINO Recording Bursary program is open to First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists. Two submissions — one for contemporary music, one for traditional genres — will be awarded a one-week recording session at Studio Bell to produce a commercial release. The deadline to apply here is March 1. Past recipients of the bursary include Juno winner Joel Wood, Twin Flames and PIQSIQ.

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