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Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album debuts at No. 1

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album debuts at No.

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album debuts at No. 1

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Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album debuts at No. 1 this week on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning a clean sweep with the highest album sales, on-demand streams and digital song downloads. With over 21 million on-demand streams in one week, it sets the record for  by a Country artist in the time frame, surpassing the previous peak set October 2020 by Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get. It is Wallen’s first chart-topping album, surpassing the No. 21 peak reached in August 2020 of his 2018 release If I Know Me.


The No. 1 album for the last two weeks, Taylor Swift’s evermore, drops to 2nd place, Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon falls to 3, The Weeknd’s After Hours edges 5-4, switching positions with The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love.

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The only other new release to debut in the top 100 belongs to Barry Gibb’s Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook Vol. 1, at 66. It is his highest appearance on the chart since the Bee Gees’ Number Ones reached No. 62 in May 2016.

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

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Neil MacGonigill
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Neil MacGonigill

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Obituaries: Canadian Artist Manager/Producer Neil MacGonigill, Grateful Dead Vocalist  Donna Jean Godchaux

This week we also acknowledge the passing of American jazz bassist Ray Drummond, Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis and New Zealnd rock guitarist Robert Taylor.

Neil MacGonigill, a prominent Calgary-based artist manager, producer and record label owner, died on Oct. 31, at age 77.

He played a major role in the careers of such Albertan stars as Jann Arden, k.d. lang, Ian Tyson, Billy Cowsill and Diamond Joe White.

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