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Eminem Is This Week's 'Kamikaze' King

American rapper Eminem's 10th studio album scores high points in its first week of release, and a couple of Aussies make a strong impression on the chart as well.

Eminem Is This Week's 'Kamikaze' King

By FYI Staff

Eminem’s surprise Kamikaze release debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with 46,000 total consumption units, picking up the clean sweep of highest album sales, song downloads and audio-on-demand streams for the week. It is his tenth straight chart-topping album.


His 10th studio album, it has achieved the fourth highest one-week consumption total in 2018, behind only Drake, Keith Urban and Post Malone. Additionally, his song “Lucky You” debuts at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart. Eminem’s catalogue also shows uplifts with six other releases in the top 200 consumption chart, including Curtain Call 22-18 (+18%) and his last chart-topper, Revival, 69-36 (+46%).

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The remainder of the top five held their positions, with Drake’s Scorpion, at No. 2, Travis Scott’s Astroworld, at 3, Ariana Grande’s Sweetener, at 4 and Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys, at 5.

Four other new releases debut in the top 40, including Aussie singer Troye Sivan’s Bloom, at No. 13; American boy band Why Don’t We’s 8 Letters, at 15; Aussie singer and multi-instrumentalist Tash Sultana’s Flow State, at 22; and Passenger’s Runaway, at 33.

Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You” spends its ninth week at the top of the Digital Songs chart, the group’s longest-running No. 1 song to date. It surpasses 2011’s “Moves Like Jagger,” which spent eight weeks at No. 1.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional colour commentary provided by Nielsen Music Canada Director, Paul Tuch

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Nine Canada-Based Music 'Streaming Manipulation' Sites Taken Down After IFPI Complaint

IFPI and Music Canada filed a legal complaint with the Canadian Competition Bureau, stating that the nine sites were selling fake streams to boost play counts on streaming services.

Nine sites that were selling fraudulent streams have been taken offline, according to IFPI and Music Canada.

IFPI, the worldwide recording industry association, and Music Canada, a trade group that represents major Canadian labels, filed a legal complaint with the Canadian Competition Bureau against the sites, accusing them of selling false plays and streams to manipulate streaming service data. The nine connected sites, the most popular of which used the domain name MRINSTA.com, have since gone offline (though you can still see them via the Wayback Machine).

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