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Pop Smoke's Legacy Now Includes 2nd Posthumous No. 1 Album

Faith, Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest on-demand stream total for the week.

Pop Smoke's Legacy Now Includes 2nd Posthumous No. 1 Album

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Faith, Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest on-demand stream total for the week. It is the follow-up to Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, which spent 10 weeks at No. 1 and was the most consumed album in 2020.


Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour drops to No. 2, ending her run of eight consecutive weeks at the top of the chart, and Doja Cat’s Planet Her drops one position, to 3.

John Mayer’s Sob Rock debuts at No. 4, and was the best-selling album in the week. All eight of his studio albums have reached the top ten. This latest is his follow-up to The Search for Everything in 2017.

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Three more new releases debut in the top 50. KSI’s All Over the Place lands at No. 16, surpassing the No. 33 peak of his first album, 2020’s Dissimulation.

Tones And I’s first full-length album, Welcome to The Madhouse, enters at 36. An earlier EP, The Kids Are Coming, peaked at 9.

Illenium’s Fallen Embers debuts at 49. It’s the follow-up to the 2019 album, Ascend.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data'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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