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No Folklore, Taylor Swift Scores Her 7th Straight No. 1 Album

Taylor Swift’s folklore debuts at No.

No Folklore, Taylor Swift Scores Her 7th Straight No. 1 Album

By FYI Staff

Taylor Swift’s folklore debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 47,000 total consumption units and earning the highest album sales, on-demand streams and digital songs for the week. It is her seventh chart-topping album, all of which have debuted at the No. 1 position. It is the second-highest one-week consumption total so far in 2020, surpassed only by The Weeknd’s After Hours in its first week of release in late March. It is also the highest one-week consumption total for a female artist since Celine Dion’s Courage in November 2019. Her catalogue also posts chart gains, including her last album, Lover, moving 25-17, and 1989 bulleting 98-68.


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Last week’s No. 1 album, Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, drops to No. 2 and Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die falls to No. 3.

Logic’s No Pressure debuts at 4. It is his fifth top-five album and follows up the No. 2 Confessions of A Dangerous Mind in May 2019.

The third new entry in the top ten this week belongs to Australian teenager The Kid Laroi, who debuts at 6 with his first full-length album, F*ck Love.

With the release of a deluxe edition, Gunna’s former No. 1 album, Wunna, rockets 46-8.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by Nielsen Canada's Paul Tuch

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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​
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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​

The man behind one of Canada's most successful indie labels talks about the late-blooming success of French-language streaming record-holder Patrick Watson, why he builds long-term relationships with artists, and why it's important for the indie sector to work together.

Justin West is a leader and advocate in Canada’s independent music scene, but he didn’t plan it out that way. When he started his record label Secret City Records in Montreal in the mid-2000s, it was out of necessity. He had met an artist he loved and wanted to build a career with, and the label was a means to do it. That artist was Patrick Watson, and 20 years later he — and Secret City — are more successful than ever.

West — a multiple time Billboard Canada Power Player – leads one of the biggest indie labels in Canada while also advocating for the sector on multiple boards both locally and internationally. When we speak to him for this Executive of the Week interview, he’s just returned from Banff for the National Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Culture, and is a central figure in discussions around the Online Streaming Act and collective negotiations with online streaming platforms.

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