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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: Canadian Blues Music Awards and Lakeshore Music & Arts Festival Get Ready to Launch

Also this week: Begonia announces an extensive Canadian tour, new opportunities from Ontario Music Investment Fund for Music Company Development and more.

Soulful singer-songwriter and rising star Begonia (Alexa Dirks) has just announced a major 20-date cross-country Canadian tour in the fall. Dubbed the Fantasy Life tour in reference to her current Juno-nominated album of that name, the trek begins on Sept. 29 at the Seahorse Tavern in Halifax, concluding with a hometown concert at Winnipeg's Burton Cummings Theatre on Nov. 13. Tickets for the upcoming tour are on sale now here.

Begonia's first two critically acclaimed full-length albums, Fear (2019) and Powder Blue (2023) earned her two Juno Award nominations and two Polaris Music Prize longlist nominations, while new release Fantasy Life is nominated in the adult alternative album of the year category this year. She will tour the U.K. with Birthday Cake Records labelmates, The Brothers Landreth, April 9-25.

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