The Weeknd Has This Week's No.1 Album

By FYI Staff

The Weeknd’s After Hours debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest album sales and on-demand stream totals for the week. With over 54,000 total consumption units, it is the highest one week total so far in 2020. It is his fourth consecutive chart-topping album, his first since 2018’s My Dear Melancholy, and it is the second No. 1 album in 2020 from a Canadian artist (following Justin Bieber’s Changes). The Weeknd has two songs landing in the top ten of the Streaming Songs chart, with Blinding Lights moving 9-3, and In Your Eyes debuting at No. 8.

The No. 1 album for the last two weeks, Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake, falls to No. 2 and Justin Bieber’s Changes and Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding each drop one position to 3 and 4 respectively.

Conan Gray’s debut full-length album Kid Krow debuts at 5.

Following his passing on March 20, Kenny Rogers’ The Best Of Kenny Rogers: Through The Years enters at 12 and is the top consumed Country release for the week. His 1978 single The Gambler enters the Digital Songs chart at No. 2 and his 1983 duet with Dolly Parton on Islands In The Stream lands at No. 4.

Other new entries this week include Childish Gambino’s 3.15.20, at 17; Kelsea Ballerini’s Kelsea, at 23; and Louis-Jean Cormier’s Quand La Nuit Tombe, at 24.

Roddy Ricch’s The Box remains at the top of the Streaming Songs chart for the 12^th straight week and Tones And I’s Dance Monkey spends its 18^th non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart.

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