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Camila Cabello's 'Romance' Is A Chart Topper

Camila Cabello’s Romance debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with 14,000 total consumption units, and the highest sales total for the week.

Camila Cabello's 'Romance' Is A Chart Topper

By FYI Staff

Camila Cabello’s Romance debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, with 14,000 total consumption units, and the highest sales total for the week. It is her second straight solo album to top the chart, following 2018’s Camila.


The self-titled album from The Who debuts at No. 2, racking up the second-highest sales total for the week. It is the first charted album from the legendary band since May 2016, when The Who Hits 50 peaked at No. 9.

Michael Buble’s Christmas drops one position to 3 and last week’s No. 1 album, Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding, falls to No. 4

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Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial debuts at 5. It is his first top 10 album, surpassing the No. 84 peak of 2018’s Feed Tha Streets II.

Following his passing on December 8th, Juice WRLD’s Goodbye & Good Riddance rockets 70-7 with a 351% consumption increase. It is the album’s highest peak since August 2018. His former No. 1 album, Death Race for Love, bullets 86-13 with a 320% consumption increase.

Others in the top 10 include Celine Dion with Courage falling 3-6 and Leonard Cohen's Thanks For the Dance sliding 5-8.

Other debuts in the top 50 include Xxxtentacion’s Bad Vibes Forever at 11, the 45th-anniversary re-release of Harmonium’s Xlv at 17 and French Montana’s Montana at 23.

Tones And I’s Dance Monkey remains at the top of both the Streaming and Digital Songs charts.

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

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