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A Star Is Born Returns For 7th Week At No. 1

With no major new releases in the week and consumers young and old recuperating from too much of everything, the last week in December produced a chart about as exciting as a kidney bean.

A Star Is Born Returns For 7th Week At No. 1

By FYI Staff

With no major new releases in the week and consumers young and old recuperating from too much of everything, the last week in December produced a chart about as exciting as a kidney bean.


Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack returns to No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with over 8,000 total consumption units in the week. It is the album’s seventh week at No. 1, marking it as the longest running chart-topping soundtrack album since Frozen spent seven weeks at the top in 2014. “Shallow,” the first single from the album, returns to No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart, the song’s 13th week at the top of the chart.

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A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie’s Hoodie SZN glides 4-2, 21 Savage’s I Am I Was holds at 3, Drake’s Scorpion rebounds 8-4 and the soundtrack for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse vaults 11-5.

Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” returns to the top of the Streaming Songs chart and Post Malone has two in the top five, with “Sunflower” moving 7-2 and “Wow” bulleting 26-4.

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Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group Sir Lucian Charles Grainge attends Universal Music Group Hosts 2020 Grammy After Party on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group Sir Lucian Charles Grainge attends Universal Music Group Hosts 2020 Grammy After Party on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.


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