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Pop Smoke Stays Hot Atop The Charts

The late rapper (pictured) continues his stay on the charts throne, followed by Juice WRLD and Taylor Swift. YoungBoy Never Broke Again has the top new entry.

Pop Smoke Stays Hot Atop The Charts

By FYI Staff

Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon remains at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the seventh non-consecutive week, with 9,200 total consumption units, scoring the highest on-demand stream total for the week. It has spent the most weeks at the top of the chart so far in 2020 and moves to No. 3 on the year-to-date consumption chart, only behind Canadian artists The Weeknd and Justin Bieber.


Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die holds at No. 2 and Taylor Swift’s folklore edges 4-3.

The top new entry this week belongs to YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Top at No. 4. It is his highest-charting album to date, surpassing the No. 11 peak of 2019’s AI YoungBoy 2. It is his third album to chart in 2020, following the No. 22 Still Flexin, Still Steppin and the No. 24 38 Baby 2.

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Internet Money’s B4 The Storm jumps 8-5 in its third week of release, its highest chart position to date.

The only other new entry in the top 50 belongs to Marilyn Manson’s We Are Chaos at No. 8, scoring the highest album sales total for the week. It is his tenth top ten album and first release since October 2017 when Heaven Upside Down peaked at No. 4.

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

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