According to RPM magazine, the biggest song of 1976 in Canada was “Tonight’s the Night” by Rod Stewart from his album A Night On the Town. Nine songs on the year-end top 100 chart below are from Canadian artists. Canadian entries have been bolded in red. The top Canadian song was “Roxy Roller” by Sweeney Todd at 5th of the year. The Canadian charts are an accurate reflection of Canadian tastes in music, and the Top 100 songs were determined both from nationwide sales and radio airplay data. The drawback with year-end charts is that songs charting from the end of one year through beginning of the next will have their chart performance split between the two years. More year-end and other Canadian charts can be found here.
| RANK | TITLE | ARTIST |
| 1 | Tonight’s the Night | Rod Stewart |
| 2 | Convoy | C.W. McCall |
| 3 | Disco Duck | Rick Dees |
| 4 | Don’t Go Breaking My Heart | E. John/K. Dee |
| 5 | Roxy Roller | Sweeney Todd |
| 6 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Queen |
| 7 | Lonely Night | Captain & Tennille |
| 8 | A Fifth of Beethoven | Walter Murphy |
| 9 | If You Leave Me Now | Chicago |
| 10 | Silly Love Songs | Wings |
| 11 | Afternoon Delight | Starland Vocal Band |
| 12 | Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Gordon Lightfoot |
| 13 | December 1963 | Four Seasons |
| 14 | Love Hurts | Nazareth |
| 15 | You Should Be Dancing | Bee Gees |
| 16 | Rock ‘n’ Me | Steve Miller Band |
| 17 | Boogie Fever | Sylvers |
| 18 | Get Up and Boogie | Silver Convention |
| 19 | Shake Your Booty | KC & The Sunshine Band |
| 20 | Shannon | Henry Gross |
| 21 | Squeeze Box | The Who |
| 22 | Money Honey | Bay City Rollers |
| 23 | More More More | Andrea True |
| 24 | Dream Weaver | Gary Wright |
| 25 | Love to Love You Baby | Donna Summer |
| 26 | Never Gonna Fall in Love Again | Eric Clapton |
| 27 | Shout It Out Loud | Kiss |
| 28 | Got to Get You Into My Life | The Beatles |
| 29 | Theme from SWAT | THP Orchestra |
| 30 | Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | Neil Sedaka |
| 31 | Fly Robin Fly | Silver Convention |
| 32 | Love So Right | Bee Gees |
| 33 | Saturday Night | Bay City Rollers |
| 34 | Play That Funky Music | Wild Cherry |
| 35 | That’ll Be the Day | Linda Ronstadt |
| 36 | Fanny | Bee Gees |
| 37 | Fox on the Run | Sweet |
| 38 | You’ll Never Find Another… | Lou Rawls |
| 39 | Love Roller Coaster | Ohio Players |
| 40 | Muskrat Love | Captain & Tennille |
| 41 | Show Me the Way | Peter Frampton |
| 42 | Welcome Back | John Sebastian |
| 43 | Lowdown | Boz Scaggs |
| 44 | You’re My Best Friend | Queen |
| 45 | The Way I Want to Touch You | Captain & Tennille |
| 46 | Let ‘Em In | Wings |
| 47 | Baby I Love Your Way | Peter Frampton |
| 48 | All By Myself | Eric Carmen |
| 49 | I Write the Songs | Barry Manilow |
| 50 | Love Is the Drug | Roxy Music |
| 51 | Moonlight Feels Right | Starbuck |
| 52 | Happy Days | Pratt & McClain |
| 53 | Let Your Love Flow | Bellamy Brothers |
| 54 | Only Sixteen | Dr. Hook |
| 55 | Sorry Seems To Be… | Elton John |
| 56 | Do You Know Where… | Diana Ross |
| 57 | Devil Woman | Cliff Richard |
| 58 | More Than a Feeling | Boston |
| 59 | Stand Tall | Burton Cummings |
| 60 | A Little Bit More | Dr. Hook |
| 61 | Fernando | ABBA |
| 62 | Misty Blue | Dorothy Moore |
| 63 | Rhiannon | Fleetwood Mac |
| 64 | Shop Around | Captain & Tennille |
| 65 | Wow | Andre Gagnon |
| 66 | Sky High | Jigsaw |
| 67 | I’d Really Love to See You… | E. Dan/J. F. Coley |
| 68 | The Whole World’s Gone Crazy | April Wine |
| 69 | Beth | Kiss |
| 70 | Action | Sweet |
| 71 | You Sexy Thing | Hot Chocolate |
| 72 | From New York to LA | Patsy Gallant |
| 73 | Anyway You Want | Charity Brown |
| 74 | Nadia’s Theme | B. De Vorzon/P. Botkin |
| 75 | Love Is Alive | Gary Wright |
| 76 | Rock and Roll Love Letter | Bay City Rollers |
| 77 | Lorelei | Styx |
| 78 | Loving You Baby | Wednesday |
| 79 | You Are the Woman | Firefall |
| 80 | I Never Cry | Alice Cooper |
| 81 | Evil Woman | Electric Light Orchestra |
| 82 | I Only Want to Be with You | Bay City Rollers |
| 83 | You Don’t Have to Be a Star | M. McCoo/B. Davis |
| 84 | She’s Gone | Hall & Oates |
| 85 | Do You Feel Like We Do | Peter Frampton |
| 86 | Takin’ It To the Streets | Doobie Brothers |
| 87 | Let Her In | John Travolta |
| 88 | Kiss and Say Goodbye | Manhattans |
| 89 | The Reaper | Blue Oyster Cult |
| 90 | Let’s Do It Again | Staple Singers |
| 91 | 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover | Paul Simon |
| 92 | The Rubberband Man | Spinners |
| 93 | The Boys Are Back in Town | Thin Lizzy |
| 94 | I Feel Like a Bullet | Elton John |
| 95 | There’s a Kind of Hush | Carpenters |
| 96 | This Masquerade | George Benson |
| 97 | Take the Money and Run | Steve Miller Band |
| 98 | Baby Face | Wing & A Prayer |
| 99 | You Make Me Feel Like Dancing | Leo Sayer |
| 100 | Still the One | Orleans |
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