Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker earns the poetic melodist his 3rd consecutive No. 1 album, and he tops the chart this week the old fashioned way with 19,400 pure album sales. With streams, Cohen's overall tally is 20,000 consumption units.
Interestingly, his sales total is just 800 copies shy of the first week sales reached with his last release, 2014's Popular Problems.
Cohen is one of six debuts in the top ten on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart this week.
Joanne, Lady Gaga's genreless ode to her aunt (Joanne Stefani Germanotta), debuts in 2nd place with 17,500 total consumption units. The album, which has the third highest on-demand stream total for the week, surpasses the 3rd place peak her last two releases attained--2013's Artpop, and 2014's Tony Bennett collaboration album, Cheek To Cheek.
Placing 3rd is Michael Bublé's Nobody But Me with 15,300 total consumption units. It is the singer's 6th top three debut.