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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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Music News Digest: Canadian Hit-Maker Marc Jordan Gets a Biography, Winter Fests Announce Lineups

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Marc Jordan has led a fascinating career. The veteran Brooklyn-born, Toronto-based hitmaker is the subject of a new biography. Named after one of Jordan's songs (a hit for Rod Stewart), Rhythm of My Heart: The Authorized Biography of Marc Jordan is written by fellow Canadian author, songwriter and bandleader Don Breithaupt (Monkey House), and is already earning positive reviews. The book is now available through Amazon and Indigo and bookstores. Jordan's songs have sold over 35 million units, via versions by such artists as Bonnie Raitt, Diana Ross, Joe Cocker, Cher, Bette Midler, Natalie Cole, Chicago, Kenny Loggins, Kim Carnes, Shawn Colvin, Rod Stewart and many more, and he has also made a number of solo albums.

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