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Post Malone Enjoys A 9th Week At No. 1

2019’s most popular album, Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding, returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with close to 7,000 total consumption units chalked up in the week.

Post Malone Enjoys A 9th Week At No. 1

By FYI Staff

2019’s most popular album, Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding, returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with close to 7,000 total consumption units chalked up in the week. It is the album’s ninth week at the top of the chart and first since the first week of December.


American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial skates 4-2 and achieves the highest stream total for the week. It is the album’s highest chart peak to date. His hit song, The Box, moves to the top of the Streaming Songs chart.

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Harry Styles’ Fine Line holds at No. 3, picking up the highest album sales total for the week.

Last week’s No. 1 album, Travis Scott & Jackboys’ Jackboys, drops to 4th place, and Billie Eilish’s When We All Falls Asleep, Where Do We Go remains at 5.

With few new albums released in the last week of the year, there are no new albums debuting in the top 50. Brett Kissel’s Now or Never bounces 86-43 in its second week on the chart.

- Data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by Nielsen Canada Director Paul Tuch

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