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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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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets
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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets

Sources say the BlackRock-backed company bid slightly above $650 million for the assets, though the deal has yet to close.

Apparently, the third time really can be the charm, as sources say Influence Media Partners has emerged as the winner in the auction for the music assets of Anthem Entertainment, the Canadian music firm that houses music publishing assets and recorded masters royalties from the likes of Rush and Timbaland.

While two earlier efforts to sell the firm in 2017 and 2022 came up short, sources suggest that in the third go-round, the successful Goldman Sachs-shopped deal saw at least two bids come in above the $600 million mark, even though most other bidders were said to be in the $500 million to $600 million range before dropping out. In all, sources suggested that about a dozen suitors kicked the tires on Anthem.

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