Karan Aujla placed all five songs from Aujla Szn 1 on the iimiTV Canadian Chart dated October 24, 2026, a full board sweep for the karan aujla aujla szn 1 EP a month after its release. The EP itself arrived on September 25, 2026, with MXRCI behind the boards, and its chart week, not its release day, is the news here.
The positions are the proof of traction. Ashke sits at No. 6, Straight Up at No. 7, Aujla Szn at No. 16, Real Bad Man at No. 18 and Rap Killa at No. 20. Five songs from one five song project, charting in Canada at the same time, built from Apple Music Canada and Spotify Canada consumption. The full weekly board is in the iimiTV Canadian Chart for the week of October 24, which owns the chart story. This post is about the project that filled it.
Karan Aujla Aujla Szn 1: The EP Itself
Aujla Szn 1 is a deliberately rap heavy five track set: Ashke, Real Badman, Rap Killa, Straight Up and Aujla Szn. MXRCI handles the music across the EP, Toronto producer Ikky, Aujla’s longtime collaborator, produced RealBadMan, and Rap Killa carries a feature from Azaad 4L. Aujla wrote the lyrics throughout, and the project was designed as one half of a pair. Its artwork was unveiled on September 22 at the Dual EP Artwork Experience at Select City Walk Mall in New Delhi, where covers for both Aujla Szn 1 and a second, melodic EP, Aujla Szn 2, were shown together, designed by experiential designer Aaquib Wani.
The Ashke video arrived the same day as the EP, September 25, directed by Agam Mann and Aseem Mann. The rollout plan covered five music videos in total, some of them shot in Jaipur, which tells you the scale this camp builds at: a five song EP treated with album level visual investment.
What the Critics Heard
Rolling Stone India’s review rundown rated the EP 3.5 stars and heard scale in it from the first track, writing of Ashke that the opener:
bursts with arena-sized energy, setting the tone for a project that thrives on scale and swagger.
The same review describes the closing title track as a dreamy, atmospheric record that reflects on the journey and promises more to come. That arc, arena energy at the open and reflection at the close, is the EP in miniature: a rap set built for big rooms that still ends on the personal note his audience connects with.
The Canadian Base Under the Numbers
Aujla’s chart week is a Canadian story before it is anything else, and it matters for anyone tracking canadian hip hop and the wider roster of canadian rappers working at scale. Born in Ghurala, Punjab, he moved to Canada in 2014, was raised in the Vancouver and Surrey area of British Columbia, attended Burnaby South Secondary, worked part time as a longshoreman in Surrey, and did early studio and songwriting work in Toronto with Deep Jandu. He won the TikTok JUNO Fan Choice Award in 2024, the first Punjabi Canadian artist to receive that honour, and has since been featured in Apple Music’s Up Next program and collaborated with Ed Sheeran and with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder.
Why a Full Project Sweep Is Rare
Charts are built to reward singles. A lead track gets the playlist placements, the video budget and the social push, while the deeper cuts of a short project usually trail far behind it. Aujla Szn 1 inverted that pattern in Canada this week: the fifth most popular song on the EP still sat inside the national top 20, which means listeners were playing the project front to back rather than arriving for one record and leaving. Five tracks is a small canvas, and filling a chart with the whole canvas is a loyalty measure as much as a popularity one. It also sets a clear test for the melodic second volume. A fanbase that consumed the rap set completely is the exact audience a singing leaning follow up needs.
Read against that base, the five song sweep is not a viral accident. It is a JUNO honoured Canadian artist converting a loyal home audience into simultaneous chart entries across a whole project, the kind of depth most singles driven careers never show. The second EP, Aujla Szn 2, is already announced as the melodic counterpart. If it lands with the same home support, this autumn will read as the season Aujla ran the Canadian chart conversation twice, once for the rap side and once for the songs.
