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Toronto Rapper Nav's Latest Album Is A Top 5 Entry

Ariana Grande’s Positions remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the second straight week and, once again, earning the highest on-demand streams for the week.

Toronto Rapper Nav's Latest Album Is A Top 5 Entry

By FYI Staff

Ariana Grande’s Positions remains at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart for the second straight week and, once again, earning the highest on-demand streams for the week. It is her second chart-topping album to spend multiple weeks at No. 1, following 2019’s Thank U, Next, which spent three weeks at the top.


Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon holds at No. 2.

The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love bullets 63-3, giving the album its highest chart position to date, surpassing the No. 6 position in its debut week on the chart.

Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get remains at No. 4.

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The top new entry for the week belongs to Canadian rapper Nav’s Emergency Tsunami at No. 5. It is the Toronto hip-hop star’s fifth top-five album and second of the year, following the No. 1 Good Intentions in May.

Chicago rapper King Von’s Welcome To O’Block jumps 29-12, following his passing on November 6th. His two other releases enter the chart this week with Levon James at No. 77 and Grandson, Vol. 1 at No. 168.

Kylie Minogue’s Disco debuts at No. 17, surpassing the No. 33 peak of her last album, 2018’s Golden.

Montreal operatic star Marc Hervieux’s Nostalgia debuts at No. 22, accruing the highest album sales total for the week.

Other new entries include celebrated Quebec songsmith and novelist Maxime Landry’s Le Party Beauceron at No. 30 and Brit girl group Little Mix’s Confetti at No. 37.

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

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​Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke speaking on State of the Industry panel at Departure at Toronto's Hotel X on May 8, 2025.
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Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke speaking on State of the Industry panel at Departure at Toronto's Hotel X on May 8, 2025.

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Tim Leiweke, CEO of Oak View Group (one of Departure's new owners, alongside Loft Entertainment), flew in for a special panel on live entertainment on Thursday, May 8. He joined Tom Pistore, president of Oak View Group's Canada operation; Keith Pelley, president and CEO of Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment (MLSE); and Wayne Zronick, president of business operations at Live Nation Canada. The discussion was sponsored by Scotiabank Arena and Coca-Cola Coliseum and hosted by Live Nation's Joey Scolari.

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