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Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' Remake Debuts At No. 1

Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the re-recorded version of her 2008 sophomore album (and first Canadian No. 1), debuts at No.

Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' Remake Debuts At No. 1

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Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the re-recorded version of her 2008 sophomore album (and first Canadian No. 1), debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with the highest album sales and on-demand streams for the week. It is her ninth consecutive chart-topping album.


Justin Bieber’s Justice, a chart-topper for the past three weeks, drops to 2nd place.

Following his passing on April 9th, DMX’s 2010 collection The Best of DMX re-enters at 3 with the highest digital track download total for the week. It is his third-highest chart peak to date following 2001’s No. 1 The Great Depression and 2003’s No. 2 Grand Champ.

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Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album drops to 4 and Lil Tjay’s Destined 2 Win falls to 5.

American hip-hop boy band Brockhampton’s Roadrunner: New Light New Machine debuts at 17, and Quebec’s popular Vincent Vallieres' debuts at 40 with Toute Beaute N’est Pa Perdue that is the second best-selling album in the week.

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

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Great Lake Swimmers
Robert Georgeff

Great Lake Swimmers

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Music News Digest: National Music Centre Opens OHSOTO’KINO Recording Bursary for Indigenous Artists, Great Lake Swimmers Hit The Road

Also this week: Toronto's Our Music Festival returns for a third edition, Wavemakers: Music Futures Conference & Showcase launches in Halifax.

OHSOTO’KINO is an Indigenous programming initiative from the National Music Centre focusing on three elements: creation of new music in NMC’s recording studios, artist development through a music incubator program and exhibitions via the annually updated Speak Up! gallery. The OHSOTO’KINO Recording Bursary program is open to First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists. Two submissions — one for contemporary music, one for traditional genres — will be awarded a one-week recording session at Studio Bell to produce a commercial release. The deadline to apply here is March 1. Past recipients of the bursary include Juno winner Joel Wood, Twin Flames and PIQSIQ.

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