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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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Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group Sir Lucian Charles Grainge attends Universal Music Group Hosts 2020 Grammy After Party on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group Sir Lucian Charles Grainge attends Universal Music Group Hosts 2020 Grammy After Party on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.


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