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Machine Gun Kelly Is No. 1 As Carrie Underwood Brings On Xmas

Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to My Downfall debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums with 10,000 total consumption units and the highest album sales total for the week.

Machine Gun Kelly Is No. 1 As Carrie Underwood Brings On Xmas

By FYI Staff

Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to My Downfall debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums with 10,000 total consumption units and the highest album sales total for the week. It is his first chart-topping album and his fourth top ten album to date. Kelly’s previous highest chart peak belonged to his 2015 release General Admission, which reached No. 5. His last album, 2019’s Hotel Diablo, peaked at 6.


Last week’s No. 1 album, Pop Smoke’s Shoot for The Stars Aim for The Moon, falls to No. 2 but continues to have the highest on-demand streams total for the week. Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die holds at No. 3.

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Japanese superstar Joji’s Nectar debuts at No. 4. This is his highest-charting album to date, surpassing the No. 7 peak of his last release, 2018’s Ballads 1.

The third new entry in the top ten belongs to Tory Lanez’s Daystar, at No. 6. It is his second charting album so far this year, following The New Toronto 3’s No. 1 status in April.

Deftones’ Ohms lands at 13, the Sacramento band’s first studio album since 2016’s Gore reached No. 4.

Thanks to a viral video exploding on Tik Tok for the song Dreams, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours bullets 55-19, with a 110% digital song download increase and a 36% streaming increase. It is the band’s highest chart position since 2003’s Say You Will peaked at No. 8.

The only other new release to debut in the top 50 belongs to Carrie Underwood’s first holiday album, My Gift, at No. 42. It is also the first Christmas-themed album to enter the top 50 in 2020.

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

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