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New Pup Album Makes A Big Splash, But Khalid Makes No. 1

Khalid’s Free Spirit debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 26,000 total consumption units, earning the highest album sales and audio-on-demand streams for the week.

New Pup Album Makes A Big Splash, But Khalid Makes No. 1

By FYI Staff

Khalid’s Free Spirit debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 26,000 total consumption units, earning the highest album sales and audio-on-demand streams for the week. His third album for RCA is also his first chart-topping album, after reaching the top ten with his previous two releases, most recently landing at No. 6 with 2018’s Suncity.


Last week’s No. 1 album, Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, drops to 2nd place, and Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next holds at 3.

K-Pop group Blackpink picks up its first top ten album as Kill This Love debuts at 8. It surpasses the No. 21 peak of 2018 EP Square Up.

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Brooks & Dunn’s Reboot debuts at 16, marking it as the duo’s first charted album since #1s…And Then Some reached No. 10 in ‘09.

Toronto’s Pup debuts at 23 with Morbid Stuff. It is the outfit’s highest charting album to date, surpassing their last release, 2016’s The Dream Is Over that peaked at 48.

Other debuts in the top 50 include French sibling duo PNL’s Deux Freres, at 31, and US singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles’ Amidst the Chaos, at 35.

 

 

Lil Nas X’s first charted song “Old Town Road” bullets 2-1 on the Streaming Songs chart with over 11 million streams and rockets 10-1 on the Digital Songs chart.

-- All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional colour commentary provided by Nielsen Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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Billboard France Announces the Launch of Billboard Paris
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Billboard France Announces the Launch of Billboard Paris

The French edition of the world's leading music media outlet is creating a local vertical to cover music news in the Greater Paris region.

Billboard France, the French edition of the world’s leading music media outlet, today announced the official launch of Billboard Paris.

This new vertical, which has already reached 10 million views on social media, will focus exclusively on music news from across the Paris region, covering local events — from small-scale concerts and club nights to music exhibitions — as well as major celebrations such as Fête de la Musique, Nuit Blanche, Techno Parade, and Pride Month.

Billboard Paris will be operated by Billboard France under the leadership of Nicolas Baudoin and Ulysse Hennessy. Yanis Si Youcef has been appointed editor-in-chief, with support from Julien Zeidan.

“In the space of a year, Billboard France has established itself as both a leading outlet for French and international music news and a reference point for industry professionals," Nicolas Baudoin and Ulysse Hennessy, president and managing Director of Billboard France and Billboard Paris, said in a joint statement. "This new Paris-focused event vertical allows us to build a highly localized audience while simultaneously expanding both our editorial and commercial offering. We are pleased to entrust it to Yanis Si Youcef, whose expertise closely aligns with our editorial ambitions.”

“Paris deserved its own benchmark music platform. Billboard Paris will tell the story of the city through its music, its scenes, and its nightlife, with the standards that have defined the Billboard brand for more than a century," added Yanis Si Youcef, editor-in-chief of Billboard Paris.

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