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Tay Is 'evermore' Popular

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Tay Is 'evermore' Popular

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The No. 1 album in the first week of 2021 is the same as the last week in 2020 as Taylor Swift’s evermore spends its third non-consecutive week at the top of the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest album sales and on-demand stream total for the week.


It matches the three weeks at No. 1 reached with her other 2020 album release, folklore.

Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon skips 5-2, Eminem’s Music to Be Murdered By edges 4-3, The Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love moves 6-4 and The Weeknd’s After Hours bullets 12-5.

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

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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets
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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets

Sources say the BlackRock-backed company bid slightly above $650 million for the assets, though the deal has yet to close.

Apparently, the third time really can be the charm, as sources say Influence Media Partners has emerged as the winner in the auction for the music assets of Anthem Entertainment, the Canadian music firm that houses music publishing assets and recorded masters royalties from the likes of Rush and Timbaland.

While two earlier efforts to sell the firm in 2017 and 2022 came up short, sources suggest that in the third go-round, the successful Goldman Sachs-shopped deal saw at least two bids come in above the $600 million mark, even though most other bidders were said to be in the $500 million to $600 million range before dropping out. In all, sources suggested that about a dozen suitors kicked the tires on Anthem.

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