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Rap Dominates This Week's Chart, But A Star Is Born Remains No. 1

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack remains at No.

Rap Dominates This Week's Chart, But A Star Is Born Remains No. 1

By FYI Staff

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with over 12,000 equivalent units, and achieving best-seller status in the categories of album sales and song downloads in the week. The single “Shallow” continues at the top of the Songs chart for the third week and bullets into the top ten on the Streaming Songs chart.


Rapper Quavo’s first solo album, Quavo Huncho, rockets 75-2 with the highest on-demand stream total in the week. Born Quavious Keyate Marshall, he has previously debuted at No. 1 with two albums as a member of the trio Migos.

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Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V edges 4-3, Eminem’s Kamikaze moves 6-4 and Drake’s Scorpion rebounds 7-5.

Other new entries in the top 50 include Brit singer-songwriter Ella Mai’s self-titled album,16; Belly’s Immigrant, at 31, and Swift Current country singer Colter Wall’s sophomore album release, Songs Of The Plains, lands at 36.

 

American rapper Kodak Black’s “ZeZe”, featuring Travis Scott, debuts at No. 1 with 54M streams, his first top ten on the Streaming Songs chart. Bad Bunny’s “MIA,” featuring Drake, enters at 2, matching the peak of his only previous chart appearance, on Cardi B’s “I Like It.”

-- Data courtesy of SoundScan with colour detail provided by Nielsen Music Canada director Paul Tuch

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Music News Digest: Music Community Rallies to Support Coco Love Alcorn Through Cancer Journey

Also this week: more trouble for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Toronto scene veteran Paul James turns 75 with a free hometown show at The Phoenix and a date is set for the first Canadian Blues Music Awards.

Canadian pop and jazz singer-songwriter and choir leader Coco Love Alcorn has just revealed that she is fighting an aggressive form of cancer. This will involve a long period of chemotherapy, immunotherapy and further surgery. Alcorn explains that "I have had to cancel all my touring, teaching, and performances for 2026 and my local choir is on hiatus till further notice. I also had 3 trips planned to BC this winter/spring to record my new album and that project is also on hold."

A GoFundMe campaign to assist her has been set up. Donate here. The rapid and generous response to her campaign reaffirms the peer respect she enjoys.

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