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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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Obituaries: Toronto Punk Rocker and Artist Sam Ferrara, American Roots Music Publicist Mark Pucci

This week we also acknowledge the passing of David Surkamp, leader of prog rock band Pavlov's Dog.

Sam Ferrara (a.k.a. Screamin' Sam), a musician, singer-songwriter, inventor of instruments and acclaimed artist who was a crucial figure on the original Toronto punk rock scene, died on October 16, at age 72, after a long illness.

Steve Koch, a bandmate and very close friend of Ferrara for almost five decades, supplied Billboard Canada with extensive biographical notes.

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