Michael Bublé’s 'Love' Is This Week's No. 1 Album
The Canadian singer's 10th album has already topped the chart in the UK and the US and in its second week of release 'Love' conquers all here in Canada.
By FYI Staff
Michael Bublé’s Love glides 2-1 on this week’s Billboard Canadian Albums, with 21,000 equivalent units that include his having the best-seller for the week. This is his sixth chart-topping album and first since 2013’s To Be Loved spent three weeks at No. 1. Bublé’s 2011 Christmas album edges 7-6 with a 28% consumption increase.
Last week’s No. 1 album, Mumford & Sons’ Delta, drops to No. 2 and Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack holds at 3.
The top debut belongs to 6ix9ine’s Dummy Boy, at 4, with 8,000 total consumption units, including the highest on-demand stream total for the week. This is the American rapper’s highest charting album to date, surpassing the No. 5 peak of Day69 in March.
Ginette Reno’s A Jamais rebounds 16-7 with a 60% consumption increase while Drake’s Scorpion and Travis Scott’s Astroworld both return to the top ten, at Nos. 8 & 9 respectively.
The only other new entry in the top 50 belongs to Brit singer Rita Ora’s Phoenix, at 36.
Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” holds at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart while Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow” continues as the No. 1 Digital Song.
– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional colour commentary provided by Paul Tuch, Director of Canadian Operations, Nielsen Entertainment.
Yuri Hasegawa
