Nav, No. 1 In North America With Debut Album
The Toronto rapper signed to The Weeknd's XO imprint tops the charts in Canada and the US this week on the eve of announcing a 21-city N/A tour next month with fellow Toronto rapper MC Killy.
By FYI Staff
Toronto’s Nav (real name Navraj Singh Goraya, a rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer of Indian Punjabi descent signed to The Weeknd's XO and Republic Records) debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with Bad Habits, earning 9,600 total consumption units and achieving the highest audio-on-demand stream total of the week with 12 million+ streams. It is his first chart-topping album to date, surpassing the No. 4 peak of his debut self-titled album in March 2017.
Queens, NY rapper (born Dimitri Roger) Rich The Kid’s The World Is Yours 2 debuts at 5. This is his second top five album, following the No. 3 peak of The World Is Yours in April 2018.
Mötley Crüe’sThe Dirt soundtrack debuts at 7, giving the band its fourth top ten album in the Nielsen SoundScan era and first since Saints Of Los Angeles reached No. 3 in 2008. It is one of four soundtracks in the top ten this week, joining A Star Is Born at No. 3, Bohemian Rhapsody at 8, and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse at 9. The band’s Greatest Hits album also enters the chart at No. 56.
Other debuts in the top 50 include Aussie singer-songwriter Dean Lewis’ A Place We Knew, at 15, and (Your Favorite Enemies’ lead guitarist) Sef Lemelin’s Deconstruction, at 26.
