Prince Album Debuts At 26, But Billie Eilish Debuts At No. 1
Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest album sales and audio on-demand streams total for the week.
By FYI Staff
Billie Eilish’s Happier Than Ever debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, earning the highest album sales and audio on-demand streams total for the week. It is the follow-up to her chart-topping album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go, which spent six weeks at No. 1 and was the tenth most popular album of 2020.
Last week’s No. 1 album, The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love, drops to 2nd place, Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour and Doja Cat’s Planet Her both fall one position to Nos. 3 and 4 respectively, and Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia holds at 5.
Other new entries in the top 50 include Isaiah Rashad’s The House Is Burning at No. 13, Prince’s Welcome 2 America at No. 26 and Logic’s Bobby Tarantino III at No. 36.
– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch
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Ed Sheeran’s = debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, achieving the highest album and digital song sales, and on-demand streams for the week and ending Drake’s eight consecutive weeks run at the top of the chart. It is Sheeran’s fourth consecutive album to debut at No. 1.
The remainder of the top five falls one position from last week’s chart, with Drake’s Certified Lover Boy, Lil Nas X’s Montero, Doja Cat’s Planet Her and The Kid Laroi’s F*ck Love sitting at Nos. 2 through 5.
Francophone rapper Enima debuts at No.15 with Resilience, his highest-charted album to date. His previous top peak was #35 with his 2018 release OPN.
Mastodon’s Hushed and Grim debuts at No. 18, the American metal band’s first release since Emperor Of Sand reached No. 4 in March 2017.
The War On Drugs’ I Don’t Live Here Anymore debuts at No. 33, their first release since A Deeper Understanding peaked at No. 8 in 2017.
Thanks to consumption activity around Halloween for the title cut, Michael Jackson’s Thriller bullets 90-26, the album’s highest chart position in the SoundScan era.
– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC Data's Paul Tuch