Canadian Albums Chart

The Canadian Album Chart, also known as Billboard Canadian Albums, is the official record chart ranking the 100 most popular music albums and extended plays in Canada. It is compiled weekly (every Monday) by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Luminate, and published every Tuesday by American music and entertainment magazine Billboard. The albums are compared across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales of tracks from albums.

History

Prior to October 27, 2015, the Canadian albums charts were determined only by pure album sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, and published by Jam! Canoe, issued every Sunday. The move to the newly named Canadian Albums chart, now published by Billboard, also included a new formula. This new chart for the first time included on-demand streaming activity and digital track sales, along with the pure album sales which were solely counted previously. It also included Track Equivalent Albums (TEA), which equate ten digital track sales from one album to one equivalent album sale, as well as Stream Equivalent Albums (SEA), which equate 1,500 song streams from an album to one equivalent album sale.

Chart achievements

Albums with most weeks at number-one

25 weeks

• Morgan Wallen – One Thing at a Time (2023–24)

23 weeks

• Adele – 21 (2011–12)

13 weeks

• Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)

12 weeks

• Adele – 25 (2015–16)
• Drake – Views (2016)

11 weeks

• James Horner – Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture (1997)
• Shania Twain – Up! (2002-03)
• Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (2024)

10 weeks

• Shaggy – Hot Shot (2001)
• Avril Lavigne – Under My Skin (2004)
• Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born (2018–19)
• Olivia Rodrigo – Sour (2021–22)
• SZA – SOS (2022–23)

9 weeks

• Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time (1999)
• Eminem – The Eminem Show (2002)
• The Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D (2009)
• Taylor Swift – 1989 (2014–15)
• Post Malone – Hollywood's Bleeding (2019–20)
• Various artists – Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022)

8 weeks

• Santana – Supernatural (2000)
• James Blunt – Back to Bedlam (2005)
• Ed Sheeran – ÷ (2017–18)
• Morgan Wallen – Dangerous: The Double Album (2021)
• Drake – Certified Lover Boy (2021)
• Harry Styles – Harry's House (2022)

Artists with the most weeks at number-one

1. Eminem – 53
2. Taylor Swift – 44
3. Adele – 41
4. Drake – 36
5. Morgan Wallen – 33

References

• PM (magazine)
• The Record (magazine)

External links

• Canadian Albums Chart
• Billboard Charts
• Archive (May 2001 – November 2004)
• Archive (December 2004 – July 2012)^[usurped]