Canada’s The Weeknd has the hottest album in the U.S. for the third straight week.
After Hours remains at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart dated April 18, which will be published Tuesday, according to Nielsen Music/MRC data for the week that ended April 9. The chart is based on U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data.
The Weeknd has said there was pressure to delay the March 20th release of his fourth studio album due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“At first, I felt like it might have been insensitive to release it,” he told Billboard, “but to my fans I felt like I would have been doing a disservice to push it back.”
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After Hours is now the first album to spend three consecutive weeks at the top of the chart since Post Malone’s Hollywood’s Bleeding last October. In March, all 14 songs on the original version of the album were on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with 10 in the Top 40 – making The Weeknd only the eighth artist ever to have that many songs in the Top 40 at the same time. (The record is held by fellow Toronto native Drake.)