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The Weeknd's 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' Is The First New Canadian No. 1 Album In 2025

The final release in Abel Tesfaye's trilogy has scored the top spot on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart this week, bumping SZA's SOS to No. 2 — the only record able to do so this year.

The Weeknd
The Weeknd
Eddy Chen

Tomorrow has arrived — and it's topping the charts.

The Weeknd's latest LP, the hotly anticipated Hurry Up Tomorrow, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart dated Feb. 15, 2025. It becomes the first new record to do so this year, bumping SZA's SOS to No. 2.


The album marks the conclusion of a trilogy that began with 2020's After Hours and continued through 2022's Dawn FM. The Weeknd kicked off the album's release with a surprise Grammys performance, marking the end of a boycott he began when After Hours was snubbed. Hurry Up is another dose of his patented dark pop — with a riveting pivot into Brazilian funk on "São Paulo" —and the paranoia is ramped up this time around.

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In addition to the No. 1 spot, The Weeknd has a few more entries on the Albums chart. His greatest hits collection The Highlights is at No. 3 and After Hours re-enters at No. 43. Hurry Up Tomorrow is his 7th No. 1 on the Canadian Albums chart and his fifth on the Billboard 200, where it also leads this week.

Meanwhile, he has 21 songs currently charting on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100. The sulking synth-led "Cry For Me" is his highest track, debuting at No. 8, while the Playboi Carti-assisted "Timeless" is at No. 9. While those are both strong placements, Hurry Up Tomorrow has yet to produce an inescapable hit like After Hours' "Blinding Lights" or "Save Your Tears." With a film inspired by the album yet to come out, there's definitely still time.

Elsewhere on the charts, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars continue to "Die With a Smile" for a sixth week atop the Billboard Canadian Hot 100.

B.C. singer Cameron Whitcomb debuts a third song on the Canadian Hot 100, "Hundred Mile High" at No. 88, making him the most prominent Canadian on the chart after The Weeknd. The song joins his "Quitter" at No. 68 and "Medusa" at No. 74 and is another high-intensity entry in Whitcomb's anthemic folk catalogue.

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Check out the full charts here.

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Bryan Adams at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on September 19, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Bryan Adams at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Festival held at T-Mobile Arena on September 19, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Bryan Adams Takes Swipe at Donald Trump’s Expansionist Dreams With ’51st State’ Protest Song: ‘You Better Show Some Respect’

The pointed rock tune was released on Wednesday (July 1) to coincide with Canada Day.

Bryan Adams has a very clear message for anyone down South who thinks his home country of Canada is on the market: “We’ll never be the 51st state.” The Ontario-bred rocker released a pointed protest song aimed at an audience of one on Wednesday (July 1), just in time for Canada Day, which this year celebrates the 159th anniversary of Confederation for our neighbors to the North.

“51st State,” was released on YouTube and other social media platforms as a spicy rejoinder to U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated musings about absorbing the sovereign nation into the fold and making it, well, just refer back to the song’s title.

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