Here is this week's Nielsen Marketwatch report which features Canadian music stats for the current week and YTD with comparisons to last year. This chart is published every Tuesday.
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Here is this week's Nielsen Marketwatch 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.
The Canadian rapper, the Marianas Trench frontman and the breakthrough pop star will all have a role in crowning Canada’s Next Drag Superstar on the new season of the Crave-produced reality show, which premieres on Nov. 19.
Two Canadian stars and the 'worst girl in America' will help judge the country's biggest drag face-off.
The trailer for the upcoming seventh season of Canada's Drag Race was unveiled yesterday (Nov. 2), and giral Canadian rapper bbno$, Marianas Trench frontman Josh Ramsay and recent pop breakthrough Slayyyter have all been revealed as guest judges on the upcoming season of the reality series. The seventh season of the competition, a spinoff of American series RuPaul's Drag Race, will premiere on Nov. 19 on Crave.
For Ramsay and bbno$, their forthcoming appearances are just the latest thread in their history with the show and its stars.
Marianas Trench's hit 2012 single "Desperate Measures" was used in a lip sync moment in the fifth season in 2024, when runner-up Makayla Couture faced off against fellow Toronto drag queen Perla.
bbno$ has formed a close collaborative relationship with Canada's Drag Race star Jimbo, the London, Ontario-born drag queen who has starred in his music videos for "Imma" (2020) and "NSFW" (2025). The rapper also teamed up with Canada's Drag Race's inaugural winner, Priyanka, and ten other drag performers for his performance of "It Boy" at the 2025 Juno Awards, which were held in his hometown of Vancouver.
bbno$ sent Priyanka to this year's Juno Awards on his behalf as he was busy on tour, and she was joined by a bbno$ cosplayer named Baby Joe Money. He's a champion of the LGBTQ+ community and of drag as an art form, which he credits in his recent Billboard Canada cover story with helping him become his "most extravagant self,"
Slayyyter, meanwhile, continues to have a breakthrough year, which has included some key milestones in Canada. She earned her first charting singles on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 this year with "Dance..." (No. 97) and "Brand New Chanels" (No. 72), following the success of her Wor$t Girl in America album which was released in March and topped the Billboard Top Dance Albums chart. She brought her Wor$t Tour In America to Canada in September for three sold-out stops, returning to Toronto and Vancouver and making her headline debut in Montreal with a sold-out, upgraded concert.
Along with Canadian fashion designer Aurora James, Korean-American actor-comedian Joel Kim Booster, Overcompensating star Wally Baram and more, they will be deciding voices in which drag queens advance as they vie for the title of Canada’s Next Drag Superstar and a $100,000 cash prize.
Check out the full trailer for the seventh season of Canada's Drag Race in full below.
