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Mamma Mia S/T Shunts Drake Into Second Place

Drake has the consumption side beat but its fans of Mamma Mia who have purchased the soundtrack and made it the nation's best seller in the past week.

Mamma Mia S/T Shunts Drake Into Second Place

By FYI Staff

Drake’s Scorpion spends its fourth week at the top of the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with 21,000 total consumption units tracked.


The album has achieved the highest audio-on-demand streams and digital song download totals for the week; meantime, his single, “In My Feelings,” remains at No. 1 on both the Streaming and Digital Songs charts.

Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys and XXXtentacion’s ? hold at 2 and 3 respectively.

The soundtrack to the movie “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” bullets  66-4 with a 262% consumption increase.

The album is this week’s top-selling title, supplanting Drake’s Scorpion. It is the highest charting soundtrack album since “Black Panther” debuted at No. 1 in February. The soundtrack to the first “Mamma Mia” film, which reached No. 1 in 2008, rockets 182-29 with a 181% consumption increase. Abba’s Gold best-of compilation vaults 76-15 with a 107% consumption gain.

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In another quiet week for new releases, the lone new entry in the top 50 belongs to 88rising’s Head In The Clouds, at 40. It is the first album release from the collective.

--- All data courtesy of SoundScan with colour commentary provided by Nielsen Music Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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Dave Marsh on SiriusXM's Volume Channel at the SiriusXM Studio on April 27, 2018 in New York City.
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Dave Marsh on SiriusXM's Volume Channel at the SiriusXM Studio on April 27, 2018 in New York City.

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