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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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As everyone on social media yearns for a decade ago, we take a look at the landmark year for Canadian music when the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 and Canadian Albums charts were ruled by Justin Bieber, Drake, The Weeknd, Alessia Cara and more.

The year is 2016: skinny jeans are in style, Instagram photo filters are all the rage, TikTok doesn't exist and Canadian artists are ruling the Billboard charts.

A decade later, many are yearning for the recent past. Decade-old photo carousels have flooded social media feeds. Somehow, 2016 is the latest trend to take over Instagram and TikTok, nostalgically romanticizing a pre-pandemic world before AI ruled, the world, brainrot wasn't a thing and basic human rights weren’t being stripped stateside (though there was also a notable election that year).

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