The New Toronto 3

The New Toronto 3 is the final release of Lanez's five-album contract with Interscope Records. The project was intended to be released in March 2020, but was delayed due to Lanez's label issues, which he has aired through social media, writing on Instagram that he has had to "dumb down [his] creativity" and that his prior release, Chixtape 5, was the "closest thing [he's] been able to give [...] that had somewhat of the quality" he intends his future music to have.[5]

The New Toronto 3 was supported by three singles. On February 8, 2020, he released the lead single from the mixtape, "Broke in a Minute" along with a music video.[6] After the mixtape's release, the single debuted at number 64 on the US Billboard Hot 100.[7] The single also peaked at number 76 on the Canadian Hot 100.[8] On March 27, 2020, "Do the Most" was released as the mixtape's second single.[9] The music video was released on March 31, 2020.[10] The single missed the Hot 100 but managed to peak at number six on the US Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart.[11] It also peaked at number 83 on the Canadian Hot 100.[8] On April 2, 2020, "Who Needs Love" was released as the mixtape's final single.[12] The music video was released on April 14, 2020.[13] The single peaked at number one on the US Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart.[11] The single also peaked at number 57 on the Canadian Hot 100 and number 58 on the UK Singles Chart respectively.[8][14]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[18]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Clash	7/10[1]
Exclaim!	8/10[19]
NME	[20]

The New Toronto 3 was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on four reviews.[18]

Jordan Bassett of NME gave the album four stars.[20] Bassett praised Lanez' growth as an artist stating "In a lot of ways, Tory Lanez feels like something of an old-school hip-hop star. In recent years, a generation of young rappers transcended SoundCloud to become true icons, sharing bracing admissions about mental health and drug use (many also doomed, from Lil Peep to Juice WRLD)."[20] He also stated that "Lanez is a more complex artist that many give him credit for."[20]

In his home country of Canada, The New Toronto 3 debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, earning a total number of 10 million on-demand streams in its first week.[21] This became his second number-one debut in the country.[21] In the United States, The New Toronto 3 debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 64,000 album-equivalent units (including 5,000 copies in pure album sales) in its first week. It is Lanez' fifth US top-five album on that chart.[4] The mixtape also accumulated a total of 76.1 million on-demand streams from its songs that week.[4] In its second week, the mixtape dropped to number ten on the chart, earning an additional 28,000 units.[22]