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Olivia Rodrigo Holds Chart Crown For 2nd Week

Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the third straight week, once again picking up the highest on-demand streams and digital song sales.

Olivia Rodrigo Holds Chart Crown For 2nd Week

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Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the third straight week, once again picking up the highest on-demand streams and digital song sales.


The top new entry of the week belongs to Lil Baby & Lil Durk’s The Voice of the Heroes, at No. 2. The album achieves the second highest on-demand stream total. It matches Lil Baby’s earlier highest chart peak  with February 2020s My Turn, and it is Lil Durk’s highest charting album to date, surpassing the No. 6 peak of The Voice in December 2020.

The Weeknd’s The Highlights rebounds 21-3 and Justin Bieber’s Justice and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia both drop one position to Nos. 4 and 5 respectively.

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Following their performance on the last week’s Juno Awards, The Tragically Hip’s Saskadelphia rebounds 16-11 and has the highest album sales total of the week, while their best-of collection Yer Favourites slides 15-13.

Jamaican-American rapper Sleepy Hallow’s Still Sleep? bullets 127-24 in its first full week of release, and Chicago rock band Rise Against’s Nowhere Generation debuts at No. 29.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch.

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Coco Love Alcorn

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Music News Digest: Music Community Rallies to Support Coco Love Alcorn Through Cancer Journey

Also this week: more trouble for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Toronto scene veteran Paul James turns 75 with a free hometown show at The Phoenix and a date is set for the first Canadian Blues Music Awards.

Canadian pop and jazz singer-songwriter and choir leader Coco Love Alcorn has just revealed that she is fighting an aggressive form of cancer. This will involve a long period of chemotherapy, immunotherapy and further surgery. Alcorn explains that "I have had to cancel all my touring, teaching, and performances for 2026 and my local choir is on hiatus till further notice. I also had 3 trips planned to BC this winter/spring to record my new album and that project is also on hold."

A GoFundMe campaign to assist her has been set up. Donate here. The rapid and generous response to her campaign reaffirms the peer respect she enjoys.

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