Canadian music charts

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RPM (1964–2000) and Billboard (1996–present) are the biggest providers of the official music charts in Canada

The Canadian music charts are a collection of

record charts reflecting the music consumption of people in Canada. RPM and Billboard are the biggest publications to have published Canada's official charts for decades. However, the first Canadian music chart was published by radio station CHUM AM in 1957. The oldest music publication in Canada, RPM launched music charts in 1964, compiling the country's top albums and singles. It remained the nation's music industry
standard chart until they ceased publication in November 2000.

Canadian Digital Song Sales chart.[2] The Canadian Hot 100 was launched by Billboard on June 7, 2007, and remains the standard music chart in Canada for songs, alongside Billboard Canadian Albums
for albums.

History

The oldest Canadian music chart was CHUM Chart, which debuted on May 27, 1957, under the name CHUM's Weekly Hit Parade by Toronto radio station CHUM AM. It was considered the de facto national chart of Canada until 1964, when RPM magazine was founded and CHUM lost its special status and became just a regular single-station chart. RPM (1964–2000) was the oldest music industry publication in Canada and was considered the country's "music bible".[3][4][5] It published Canadian national record charts from June 22, 1964 until its final issue on November 13, 2000.[4] RPM also created Juno Awards,[6] which remains the biggest music award ceremony in Canada and their equivalent of Grammy Awards in the United States.[7]

In the 1960s, the Canadian music industry was disparate and regionally focused, and English-speaking Canadian artists were often overlooked in favour of American acts. To encourage a more national focus and ensure that domestic artists were promoted across Canada, the Maple Leaf System (MLS) was set up in 1969.[8] The MLS produced its own national singles chart,[9] which Billboard magazine reproduced as Canada's entry in its weekly Hits of the World section.[10] The MLS struggled to achieve widespread support in Canada, however, particularly as participating radio stations failed to give the nominated Canadian records the requisite national airplay.[8]

In 1983, The Record magazine began publishing Canadian music charts to rival RPM. The Retail Singles chart of The Record was based on a national sample of single sales reports given by Canadian retailers and rack jobbers.[11] The chart was associated with Canada in the Hits of the World section of American magazine Billboard. The Record ceased publishing the chart due to a lack of sales reports owing to declining single sales in the country.[12]

In November 1996,

Candle in the Wind '97"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" spent 45 weeks at number one despite selling only one million copies in its first two years of release in the country.[15] It stayed in the top twenty for three years.[16]

With of the growing popularity of digital music downloads in the mid-2000s, physical single sales in Canada declined further, and in March 2006, Billboard reported that most of the then-recent number-one singles on the Canadian Singles Chart had sold less than 200 copies.[2] In March 2006, Nielsen Entertainment Canada created the Canadian Digital Songs Chart, which tracked sales of digital music downloads, and Billboard stopped publishing the Canadian Singles Chart in favor of the new chart.[2] However, the chart continued to be published on Jam!.[17]

Billboard introduced their own singles chart for Canada, the

Nielsen BDS.[18]

Album charts

Singles charts

References

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  3. ^ "Another music mag bites the dust". The Globe and Mail. 14 March 2001. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b Canada, Library and Archives (April 16, 2013). "The RPM story". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  5. ISBN 9781550026542
    – via Google Books.
  6. ^ McLean, Steve. "Juno Awards". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  7. ^ "Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at 84 -CBC". Reuters. 2023-05-02. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
  8. ^ a b Green, Richard (February 2015). "RPM, 1964–2000: The Conscience of Canada's Music Industry". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  9. ^ Yorke, Ritchie (15 May 1971). "From the Music Capitals of the World" > "Toronto". Billboard. p. 50. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  10. ^ Tomko, Andy (charts dir.) (5 June 1971). "Billboard Hits of the World". Billboard. p. 52. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  11. ^ Lwin 2000, pp. 11–14.
  12. ^ Lwin 1996, p. 9.
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  15. ^ "BBC News | Entertainment | Elton's candle burns in Canada". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
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  17. ^ "SINGLES : Top 20". Nielsen SoundScan. Jam! Canoe. June 3, 2010. Archived from the original on June 7, 2010. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  18. ^ "Billboard Launches Canadian Hot 100 Chart". Billboard. June 7, 2007. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  19. ^ David Farrell (October 29, 1977). "Diversity is the Key to Maple Leaf Market". Billboard.

Further research
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