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Morgan Wallen's No. 1...Again and Controversy Helps Britney

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album returns to No.

Morgan Wallen's No. 1...Again and Controversy Helps Britney

By FYI Staff

Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the fifth non-consecutive week, earning the highest on-demand stream total for the week. It is the first Country album to spend five weeks at the top since Shania Twain’s Greatest Hits held the No. 1 position for five non-consecutive weeks in November 2004.


After scoring the No. 1 album last week with his new greatest hits’ album The Highlights (which falls to No. 6), The Weeknd’s last studio release, After Hours, returns to the top five at No. 2, with the highest digital song downloads for the week.

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Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia bullets 7-3, the album’s highest chart position since its second week of release in April 2020. Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim For The Moon remains at 4 and Taylor Swift’s evermore holds at 5.

The top new entry for the week belongs to Florida Georgia Line’s Life Rolls On, at 18. It is the group’s first full-length album since Can’t Say I Ain’t Country peaked at No. 4 in February 2019.

Pretty Reckless’ Death by Rock and Roll lands at 28, marking it as the first charting album for the NYC rock band since Who You Selling For reached No. 12 in 2016.

The soundtrack for the new film Judas and the Black Messiah debuts at No. 32, and Dominique Fils-Aime’s Three Little Words comes in at No. 33 with the highest album sales total for the week.

With all the attention around the new documentary Framing Britney Spears, the Essential Britney Spears collection re-enters at 39, the highest chart position for the former “Princess of Pop” since Glory debuted at No. 4 in September 2016.

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

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Val Blavatnik to Oversee Warner Music Canada in New Role at Warner Music Group

Blavatnik will oversee Warner Music Canada as managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at WMG. As part of a slew of executive announcements, Simon Robson will be leaving the company, while Alejandro Duque takes the top international role.

Val Blavatnik, the 28-year-old son of Warner Music Group majority owner and vice chairman Len Blavatnik, has been named managing director of Warner Music North America, U.K. and Corporate Development at the Warner Music Group, the company announced Friday (Sept. 25). In his new role the younger Blavatnik, who has held several roles at the company in recent years, and has been a board member since 2023, expects to “unify and drive business and operational strategy across these markets while guiding the company’s investment strategy to support growth,” according to a press release.

The Blavatnik announcement is part of a flurry of new executive announcements that CEO Robert Kyncl made this morning. In addition, Atlantic Music Group chairman/CEO Elliot Grainge will take on ADA in the U.S. as its new chairman, while Alejandro Duque, who has held the dual roles of president of Warner Latin and president of ADA since last July, has been named president of Warner Music International, adding Asia-Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa under his oversight. (Duque will continue to oversee ADA outside the U.S.) Zach Friedman, currently COO at Atlantic Music Group, will add the title of vice chair of ADA U.S. to his resume.

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