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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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Sam Ferrara
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Sam Ferrara

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Obituaries: Toronto Punk Rocker and Artist Sam Ferrara, American Roots Music Publicist Mark Pucci

This week we also acknowledge the passing of David Surkamp, leader of prog rock band Pavlov's Dog.

Sam Ferrara (a.k.a. Screamin' Sam), a musician, singer-songwriter, inventor of instruments and acclaimed artist who was a crucial figure on the original Toronto punk rock scene, died on October 16, at age 72, after a long illness.

Steve Koch, a bandmate and very close friend of Ferrara for almost five decades, supplied Billboard Canada with extensive biographical notes.

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