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Luke Combs Bounces Back To No. 1 with 'The Boss' debuting at No. 2

With the release of a deluxe version of the album, Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get bullets 15-1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest digital song sales, the

Luke Combs Bounces Back To No. 1 with 'The Boss' debuting at No. 2

By David Farrell

With the release of a deluxe version of the album, Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get bullets 15-1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest digital song sales, the second highest on-demand streams and third highest album sales total for the week. The album entered at No. 1 in its release week in November 2019, his first chart-topping album.


Bruce Springsteen’s Letter To You debuts at No. 2 and earned the highest album sales total for the week. It is The Boss’s highest charting album since 2014’s High Hopes debuted at No. 1 and surpasses the No. 4 peak of his last release, 2019’s Western Stars.

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Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon drops to No. 3 but continues to have the highest on-demand-stream total for the week, and Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die drops one position to No. 4.

Ty Dolla $ign’s Featuring Ty Dolla $ign debuts at No. 5. It is his highest charting album to date, surpassing the No. 21 peak of his 2017 album Beach House 3.

Gorillaz’ Song Machine Season One: Strange Timez debuts at No. 18, the Brit virtual band’s first release since The Now Now peaked at No. 4 in July 2018.

The only other new entry in the top 50 this week belongs to US rapper Joyner Lucas’ Evolution, at No. 37.

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