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Prince Album Debuts At 26, But Billie Eilish Debuts At No. 1

Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest album sales and audio on-demand streams total for the week.

Prince Album Debuts At 26, But Billie Eilish Debuts At No. 1

By FYI Staff

Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest album sales and audio on-demand streams total for the week. It is the follow-up to her chart-topping album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go, which spent six weeks at No. 1 and was the tenth most popular album of 2020.


Last week’s No. 1 album, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love, drops to 2nd place, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour and Doja Cat’s Planet Her both fall one position to Nos. 3 and 4 respectively, and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia holds at 5.

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Other new entries in the top 50 include Isaiah Rashad’s The House Is Burning at No. 13, Prince’s Welcome 2 America at No. 26 and Logic’s Bobby Tarantino III at No. 36.

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

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Music News Digest: CRTC Aims To Fill a Gap for Indigenous Radio in Toronto and Ottawa
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Music News Digest: CRTC Aims To Fill a Gap for Indigenous Radio in Toronto and Ottawa

Also this week: Sled Island reveals initial lineup curated by clipping., Truro hosts Nova Scotia Music Week and more.

The CRTC recently launched a call for applications for FM radio stations to serve Indigenous communities in Toronto and Ottawa. Broadcast Dialogue reports "the call follows the demise of First Peoples Radio’s ELMNT FM stations, which went off the air on Sept. 1 last year. Launched in the fall of 2018, the stations had a goal to 'fill the gap' for urban Indigenous listeners under-represented in the radio landscape. They carried an 'Indigenous-variety' format, featuring both English and Indigenous-language spoken-word and musical programming, with 25% of the playlist dedicated to Indigenous talent.

In its call, the commission says in its view, "there is a need and a demand for radio stations to serve the needs and interests of those communities."

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