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Tory Lanez Releases 2nd Hit Album In Seven Month Stretch

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack spends its fourth week at No. 1, marking it as the longest running soundtrack chart-topper since Frozen spent seven weeks at the top in 2014, but it's Lanez (pictured here) who grabs the glory with his second album this year.

Tory Lanez Releases 2nd Hit Album In Seven Month Stretch

By FYI Staff

Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack spends its fourth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with 12,000 equivalent units, marking it as the longest running soundtrack chart-topper since Frozen spent seven weeks at No. 1 beginning in March 2014.


Ginette Reno’s A Jamais jumps 3-2 with just under 12,000 equivalent units, up 4% over last week and earning the highest album sales total for the week.

Andrea Bocelli’s Si is the top new entry of the week, debuting at 3, achieving the second highest album sales tally in the week and becoming his 4th top-three album and first since My Christmas peaked at 2 in November 2009.

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Tory Lanez’s Love Me Now debuts at 4, earning the highest on-demand stream total for the week and giving the Canadian hip-hop his third straight top-five album, following his sophomore set, Memories Don’t Die, which hit No. 1 in March.

Joji, the alias used by a Japanese-born record producer, singer, songwriter, rapper and retired YouTube personality, picks up his first top ten album as Ballads 1 enters at 7. He previously peaked at 62 with his EP In Tongues in November 2017.

Other new entries in the top 50 include Roman Catholic trio Les Pretres’ Quand Les Hommes Vivront D’amour, at No. 19; Quebec rapper Souldia’s Sirvivant, at 22 and Swedish pop singer Robyn’s Honey at 33.

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Carole Pope and Kevan Staples of Rough Trade
Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

Carole Pope and Kevan Staples of Rough Trade

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Obituaries: Rough Trade Co-Founder Kevan Staples, Country Hall of Famer Dick Damron

This week we also acknowledge the passing of hit Memphis record producer/engineer Terry Manning and Canadian country singer Harry Rusk.

Kevan Staples, a Toronto songwriter, film and TV composer and multi-instrumentalist best known as co-founder of the adventurous Juno-winning rock band Rough Trade, died on March 23, of cancer, at the age of 75.

His creative partnership with charismatic and provocative vocalist and songwriter Carole Pope was at the heart of Rough Trade, a group that made a colourful mark on the Canadian rock scene in the late '70s and early '80s.

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