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Pop Smoke's Legacy Now Includes 2nd Posthumous No. 1 Album

Faith, Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest on-demand stream total for the week.

Pop Smoke's Legacy Now Includes 2nd Posthumous No. 1 Album

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Faith, Pop Smoke’s second posthumous album, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest on-demand stream total for the week. It is the follow-up to Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, which spent 10 weeks at No. 1 and was the most consumed album in 2020.


Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour drops to No. 2, ending her run of eight consecutive weeks at the top of the chart, and Doja Cat’s Planet Her drops one position, to 3.

John Mayer’s Sob Rock debuts at No. 4, and was the best-selling album in the week. All eight of his studio albums have reached the top ten. This latest is his follow-up to The Search for Everything in 2017.

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Three more new releases debut in the top 50. KSI’s All Over the Place lands at No. 16, surpassing the No. 33 peak of his first album, 2020’s Dissimulation.

Tones And I’s first full-length album, Welcome to The Madhouse, enters at 36. An earlier EP, The Kids Are Coming, peaked at 9.

Illenium’s Fallen Embers debuts at 49. It’s the follow-up to the 2019 album, Ascend.

– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch.

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Music Biz Headlines: The Weeknd's 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' Movie Falls Flat with Critics, Drake Addresses the 'Drake Curse'

In the news this week: Sum 41 guitarist Dave Baksh discusses his cancer scare, Trump takes aim at musicians, Megan Thee Stallion responds to Tory Lanez's legal team.

This has been another week in which Drake has made headlines on multiple fronts. He shared a petition calling for the release of fellow rapper Tory Lanez, joked about Justin Bieber while referencing the infamous 'Drake curse' in sports, and his ongoing battle with Universal Music Group has attracted the attention of legal scholars.

Also this week, The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow movie is not performing as hoped, Donald Trump takes aim at The Boss, and new inductions into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

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