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Ariana Grande’s Positions debuts at No 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart with over 15,000 total consumption units, scoring the highest album sales, on-demand streams and digital song downloads for the week. It is her fourth chart-topping album to date and her third straight full-length album to top the chart, following 2018’s Sweetener and 2019’s Thank U, Next.

Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon rebounds 3-2 and Sam Smith’s Love Goes debuts at No. 3. It is his first release since 2017’s The Thrill of It All entered at No. 1. All three of his albums have peaked in the top three.

Last week’s No. 1 album, Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get, falls to No. 4 and Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die drops to No. 5.

Trippie Redd’s Pegasus debuts at No. 6. It matches the No. 6 peak of his last album, A Love Letter to You 4, in December 2019. All five of his albums have reached the top ten.

Busta Rhyme’s first studio album in eight years, Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God, enters at No. 26. It is his highest-charting album since Back on My B.S. peaked at No. 18 in 2009.

Other new entries include King Von’s Welcome to The O’Block at 29, Bring Me the Horizon’s Post Human: Survival Horror at 31 and Wizkid’s Made In Lagos at 45.

Two holiday-related albums re-enter the top 40 this week. Michael Jackson’s Thriller re-enters at 37, the album’s highest chart position since post-Halloween 2017, and Michael Buble’s Christmas re-enters at 40. The album has spent seven weeks at No. 1 since its initial release in 2011, including a one week stretch in both 2018 and 2019.

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Do we have an idea of the biggest female debuts of the year there?

Taylor was 47k, Gaga was 28k

thank u, next did 33k for reference (and 15k in its second week)... and even Witness did 23k. The election excuse doesn't stand for Canada, this is flat out awful

Yeah it's a declined in every way you look at it. 

But the thing is that the music is just not good. She can try again in a few months 

 

5 minutes ago, KillingYourCareer said:

thank u, next did 33k for reference (and 15k in its second week)... and even Witness did 23k. The election excuse doesn't stand for Canada, this is flat out awful

2 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

Yeah it's a declined in every way you look at it. 

But the thing is that the music is just not good. She can try again in a few months 

 

It's not about trying again, rather about taking her time to come up with something good instead of throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks. Becoming overexposed by repeatedly releasing bad music isn't exactly a wise choice.

15K?  This is huge for Ariana

I've seen Ari fans seriously blame positions' underperformance on "flop features" when one of the features (After Hours) did 54k in the 1st week in Canada. Can they come up with an excuse that makes sense?

1 hour ago, KillingYourCareer said:

thank u, next did 33k for reference (and 15k in its second week)... and even Witness did 23k. The election excuse doesn't stand for Canada, this is flat out awful

Also 60% down in the UK, so... It's just a flop everywhere, it's not connected to the election.

Edited November 9, 20205 yr by omrimayo

Canadian market is about 10-15% the size of the US. So this is more or less on par with the US debut. 

Edited November 9, 20205 yr by ReverseWarholian

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this is a flop  and there are no elections in canada, so...

I remember being the only one (or one of the few) in the announcement thread wondering if she could underperform nnn

It's not a FLOP especially since it has no bundles or promo at all, but a big decline nevertheless.

Huge ari stan, however the album didnt catch me at all. :/ hope the next one will be better.

5 hours ago, KillingYourCareer said:

thank u, next did 33k for reference (and 15k in its second week)... and even Witness did 23k. The election excuse doesn't stand for Canada, this is flat out awful

Better sales climax tho

 

7 hours ago, KillingYourCareer said:

thank u, next did 33k for reference (and 15k in its second week)... and even Witness did 23k. The election excuse doesn't stand for Canada, this is flat out awful

Nobody I know likes it here, even her big fans  One of my best friends dresses like Ari everyday and she was so unimpressed 

Low units but still hit #1. It only means the industry is just at a very bad state. A #1 is a #1 regardless of yalls opinion.