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Urban Canadians Hold Top 3 Posts On Albums Chart This Week

For the first time since 2015 when streaming and digital song sales were included to tabulate total consumption chart data, three Canadian artists have the top three albums on the Billboard Canadia

Urban Canadians Hold Top 3 Posts On Albums Chart This Week

By FYI Staff

For the first time since 2015 when streaming and digital song sales were included to tabulate total consumption chart data, three Canadian artists have the top three albums on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart. NAV’s Good Intentions debuts at No. 1 with over 10,000 total consumption units, picking up the highest album sales and on-demand streams for the week. It is his second consecutive chart-topping album, following 2019’s Bad Habits.


Last week’s No. 1 album, Drake’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes, drops to 2nd place, and The Weeknd’s After Hours holds at No. 3.

Kehlani’s It Was Good Until It Wasn’t debuts at No. 4. It is her second-highest chart peak to date, only surpassed by her 2017 No. 3 debut album Sweetsexysavage, and topping her last release, 2019’s While We Wait, which peaked at 17.

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Lil Tjay’s State of Emergency debuts at 19. It is his follow-up to 2019's True 2 Myself, which peaked at No. 2.

Lil Durk’s Just Cause Y’all Waited 2 debuts at 20, his highest-charting album to date, surpassing the No. 25 peak of his last release, 2019’s Love Songs 4 The Streets 2.

6ix9ine’s Gooba debuts at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart. It is his first chart-topping song, surpassing the No. 2 place Fefe achieved in July 2018.

Stuck With U, the new duet from Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, debuts at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart. It is her fifth digital No. 1 and his 12th.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by Nielsen Canada Director Paul Tuch.

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