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Here is this week's MRC Data Market Watch report which features Canadian music stats for the current week and YTD with comparisons to last year. This chart is published every Tuesday. The abbreviation "TEA" is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. A track equivalent album is equal to 10 tracks, or 10 songs.
Sombr has been on a steady rise ever since his tracks started going viral on TikTok last summer. That quickly translated into chart success, with "Back to Friends" reaching the Top 10 of the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 and his Aug. 2025 album I Barely Know Her also cracking the Top 10 of the Canadian Albums chart, both seeing similar success on the U.S. charts as well.
Gims will be returning to Quebec City for the first time since SuperFrancoFête festival in 2023, having also played a headline show at Montreal's Centre Bell in Oct. 2025. The Congolese-French singer has earned recently several chart-topping hits in France, including the smash single "Parisienne."
The festival continues to spotlight local Canadian talent, with two of Billboard Canada's 2026 Canadian Artists to Watch—Sofia Camara and Baby Nova—viral Québécois rapper Kinji00 and many more appearing on the 2026 lineup, which you can check out in full below.
Festival Fono 2026 lineupFestival Fono
With three stages and a mix of international stars and local acts, Festival Fono continues to bring liveliness and musical discovery to the Laval campus.
“We set out to build a diverse and carefully structured program in which each stage asserts its own identity while also interacting with the others. The idea is to make room for both major headlining moments and discoveries, in an experience that naturally invites audiences to move from one space to another,” says Louis Bellavance, artistic director of BLEUFEU, the same company behind the Festival d'été de Québec (FEQ).
General admission passes for all three days start at $149, with University of Laval student passes starting at $105.
Festival Fono returns to Quebec City from Sept. 10-12. Passes are on sale now.
