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Shawn Mendes Achieves His Fourth No. 1 Debut with Wonder Album

Shawn Mendes’ Wonder debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest sales and digital song downloads and the second-highest on-demand streams for the week.

Shawn Mendes Achieves His Fourth No. 1 Debut with Wonder Album

By FYI Staff

Shawn Mendes’ Wonder debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest sales and digital song downloads and the second-highest on-demand streams for the week. All four of his full-length studio albums have debuted in the No. 1 position, including his last release, 2018’s self-titled album. It is the sixth album from a Canadian artist to reach No. 1 in 2020, following Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Tory Lanez, Drake and NAV.


Michael Buble’s Christmas remains at No. 2 and having the highest on-demand streams for the week. Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon holds at 3, last week’s No. 1 album, Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts, falls to 4, and The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love edges 6-5. Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas moves 13-8.

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Five more holiday albums place in the top 30 this week, with Dolly Parton’s A Holly Dolly Christmas jumping 20-14 and classics from Vince Guaraldi Trio (No. 20), Bing Crosby (No. 21), Nat King Cole (No. 22) and Frank Sinatra (No. 26).

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC’s Paul Tuch.

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