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Morgan Wallen Album Earns 4th Week At No. 1

While the Morgan Wallen controversy has his professional team scrambling for cover, the Country star's fan popularity sticks, but the big breakout this week is Quebec star Andreanne A. Malette, whose latest debuts at 24 with the highest album sales in the week.

Morgan Wallen Album Earns 4th Week At No. 1

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Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the fourth straight week, earning the highest on-demand streams and digital song download totals and second highest album sales total in the week. It is the first Country album to spend at least four weeks at No. 1 since Johnny Reid’s A Place Called Love in 2010 and the first Country album to spend four consecutive weeks at No. 1 since the Dixie Chicks’ Taking the Long Way in 2006.


Pop Smoke’s Shoot for The Stars Aim for The Moon holds at No. 2, The Weeknd’s After Hours shifts 4-3, Taylor Swift’s evermore falls to No. 4 and The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love remains at No. 5.

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Lil Durk picks up his first top ten album as The Voice leaps 81-6. It is the album’s highest chart peak since debuting at No. 18 in the first week of January.

Quebec’s star fiercely independent singer-songwriter Andreanne A. Malette’s Sitka debuts at No. 24, picking up the highest album sales total for the week. It is her highest chart peak to date, surpassing the No. 56 position of her 2017 self-titled album.

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

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Geneviève Côté of SOCAN, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Jaune collaborator Michel Robidoux and Polaris Events Manager Claire Dagenais
Polaris Music Prize

Jean-Pierre Ferland receiving the Polaris Heritage Prize in 2018 alongside Geneviève Côté of SOCAN (left), Jaune collaborator Michel Robidoux and Polaris Events Manager Claire Dagenais.

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Obituaries: Songwriter Jean-Paul Ferland Was a Giant of Francophone Music

This week we also acknowledge the passing of Moody Blues Keyboardist Mike Pinder, rapper and former Justin Bieber roommate Chris King, reggae singer Tony Tuff, and bassist Nick Daniels.

Jean-Pierre Ferland, a celebrated Quebec lyricist, composer and singer, died on April 27, of natural causes. He was 89.

A CBC obituary notes that his vast musical legacy included 450 songs and 30 albums.

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