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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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From left: Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner photographed by Wesley Mann on September 1, 2023 at Long Pond Studio near Hudson, NY.
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From left: Gracie Abrams and Aaron Dessner photographed by Wesley Mann on September 1, 2023 at Long Pond Studio near Hudson, NY.

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Aaron Dessner Sets the Record Straight on Gracie Abrams’ ‘Death Wish’: It’s ‘Definitely Not’ About Taylor Swift

The producer also shared how he ended up performing with Noah Kahan over the weekend.

Aaron Dessner and Gracie Abrams have now made three albums together, with the pop star’s third studio effort, Daughter From Hell, arriving July 17. But one song in particular has stirred up a few misconceptions, and in a recent conversation with Billboard, the producer cleared them up.

Hopping on a Zoom call on Tuesday (July 21) — just days after joining Noah Kahan on stage in New York to perform one of The Great Divide songs he produced, a cameo that severe weather almost ruined — Dessner addressed confusion over the production and subject of “Death Wish,” one of the most talked-about tracks on Daughter From Hell. Some listeners have expressed surprise that the spritely album version sounds so different from the somber live piano version Abrams initially recorded and released amid her Secret of Us Tour, questioning why the duo would “change” the “original.” (Spoiler alert: They didn’t.)

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