"Canadian Albums Chart" redirects here. For older iterations of the Canadian albums chart, seeCanadian music charts.
TheBillboard Canadian Albums is the officialrecord chart ranking the 100 most popularmusic albums andextended plays in Canada. It is compiled weekly (every Monday) by U.S.-based music sales tracking companyLuminate, and published every Tuesday by American music and entertainment magazineBillboard. The albums are compared across all genres, ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales of tracks from albums.[1]
Prior to October 27, 2015, the Canadian albums charts were determined only by pure album sales compiled byNielsen SoundScan, and published byJam!Canoe, issued every Sunday. The move to the newly named Canadian Albums chart, now published byBillboard, 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.[citation needed]
21 byAdele spent the most weeks at number one on theBillboard Canadian Albums.Celine Dion charted 15 number ones on theBillboard Canadian Albums, the most for any artist.
