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Morgan Wallen Earns 2nd Week Atop Albums Chart

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album spends a second straight week at No.

Morgan Wallen Earns 2nd Week Atop Albums Chart

By FYI Staff

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album spends a second straight week at No. ` on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest on-demand stream and digital song download totals for the week. It is the first album from a Country artist to spend at least two consecutive weeks at the top since Quebec singer Yoan’s self-titled album held the No. 1 position for three straight weeks in April 2015.


Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon edges 3-2, Taylor Swift’s evermore falls to No. 3, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love moves 5-4, switching positions with The Weeknd’s After Hours, which drops to No. 5.

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This week’s top new entry belongs to American boy band Why Don’t We’s The Good Times And The Bad Ones, at No. 19. The album, which earned the highest sales total for the week,  is the follow up to their 2018 debut album 8 Letters, which peaked at No. 15.

Zayn’s Nobody Is Listening enters at No. 21. It is his first album since December 2018 when Icarus Falls peaked at No. 24.

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

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