Billboard Canadian Albums
Canadian record chart for album sales
The 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
35 weeks
Adele – 21 (2011–12)
25 weeks
Morgan Wallen – One Thing at a Time (2023–24)
19 weeks
Michael Bublé – Christmas (2011–2026)
15 weeks
SZA – SOS (2022–25)
13 weeks
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
12 weeks
Adele – 25 (2015–16)
Drake – Views (2016)
Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (2024)
Morgan Wallen – I'm the Problem (2025)
Taylor Swift – The Life of a Showgirl (2025–26)
11 weeks
James Horner – Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture (1997)
Shania Twain – Up!
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