According to RPM magazine, the biggest song of 1969 in Canada was “Get Back” by The Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney. Six of the year-end Top 100 songs, bolded in red in the chart below, were authored by Canadians. Do note that, though an American group, Blood, Sweat & Tears was fronted by Canada’s David Clayton-Thomas at the time. Also, Andy Kim was part of virtual band The Archies. We have marked these in orange. The top purely Canadian entry on the chart was “Baby I Love You” by Andy Kim. 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 | Get Back | The Beatles |
| 2 | Sugar Sugar | The Archies |
| 3 | Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In | 5th Dimension |
| 4 | And When I Die | Blood, Sweat & Tears |
| 5 | Something/Come Together | The Beatles |
| 6 | Dizzy | Tommy Rae |
| 7 | I Started a Joke | The Bee Gees |
| 8 | Crimson & Clover | Tommy James & Shondells |
| 9 | Suspicious Minds | Elvis Presley |
| 10 | Spinning Wheel | Blood, Sweat & Tears |
| 11 | Baby I Love You | Andy Kim |
| 12 | You’ve Made Me So Very Happy | Blood, Sweat & Tears |
| 13 | Build Me Up Buttercup | The Foundations |
| 14 | Hair | The Cowsills |
| 15 | In the Year 2525 | Zager & Evans |
| 16 | Honky Tonk Women | The Rolling Stones |
| 17 | Wichita Lineman | Glen Campbell |
| 18 | Easy To Be Hard | Three Dog Night |
| 19 | Time of the Season | The Zombies |
| 20 | One | Three Dog Night |
| 21 | Crystal Blue Persuasion | Tommy James & Shondells |
| 22 | Green River | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 23 | Touch Me | The Doors |
| 24 | Jean | Oliver |
| 25 | This Magic Moment | Jay & the Americans |
| 26 | Everyday People | Sly & the Family Stone |
| 27 | Everybody’s Talkin’ | Nilsson |
| 28 | I Heard It Thru the Grapevine | Marvin Gaye |
| 29 | Wedding Bell Blues | 5th Dimension |
| 30 | These Eyes | The Guess Who |
| 31 | Hooked on a Feeling | B. J. Thomas |
| 32 | Laughing | The Guess Who |
| 33 | Good Morning Starshine | Oliver |
| 34 | Indian Giver | 1910 Fruitgum Co. |
| 35 | When I Die | Motherlode |
| 36 | I’ll Never Fall In Love Again | Tom Jones |
| 37 | Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond |
| 38 | Tracy | The Cuff Links |
| 39 | In the Ghetto | Elvis Presley |
| 40 | Baby It’s You | Smith |
| 41 | Romeo & Juliet Theme | Henry Mancini |
| 42 | Little Woman | Bobby Sherman |
| 43 | Love Can Make You Happy | Mercy |
| 44 | I Can’t Get Next To You | The Temptations |
| 45 | Soulful Strut | Young Holt Unlimited |
| 46 | The Worst That Could Happen | Brooklyn Bridge |
| 47 | Yester-Me Yester-You… | Stevie Wonder |
| 48 | It’s Your Thing | The Isley Brothers |
| 49 | A Boy Named Sue | Johnny Cash |
| 50 | Get Together | The Youngbloods |
| 51 | Leaving On a Jet Plane | Peter, Paul & Mary |
| 52 | I’m Gonna Make You Love Me | Supremes & Temptations |
| 53 | Bad Moon Rising | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 54 | Which Way You Goin’ Billy | The Poppy Family |
| 55 | I Love How You Love Me | Bobby Vinton |
| 56 | Proud Mary | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 57 | If I Can Dream | Elvis Presley |
| 58 | Traces | Classics IV |
| 59 | You Showed Me | The Turles |
| 60 | Hurt So Bad | The Lettermen |
| 61 | Lay Lady Lay | Bob Dylan |
| 62 | Grazin’ in the Grass | Friends of Distinction |
| 63 | More Today Than Yesterday | Spiral Staircase |
| 64 | Smile a Little Smile For Me | Flying Machine |
| 65 | Hot Fun in the Summertime | Sly & the Family Stone |
| 66 | I’m Gonna Make You Mine | Lou Christie |
| 67 | Love Me Tonight | Tom Jones |
| 68 | Galveston | Glen Campbell |
| 69 | This Girl Is a Woman Now | Gary Puckett/Union Gap |
| 70 | The Boxer | Simon & Garfunkel |
| 71 | Ruby Don’t Take Your Love… | Kenny Rogers & 1st Edition |
| 72 | River Is Wide | The Grass Roots |
| 73 | Cloud Nine | The Temptations |
| 74 | Black Pearl | The Checkmates |
| 75 | Oh Happy Day | The Edwin Hawkins Singers |
| 76 | Make Believe | Wind |
| 77 | Take a Letter Maria | R. B. Greaves |
| 78 | For Once in My Life | Stevie Wonder |
| 79 | Only the Strong Survive | Jerry Butler |
| 80 | We Gotta All Get Together | Paul Revere & The Raiders |
| 81 | Give Peace a Chance | Plastic Ono Band |
| 82 | Canadian Pacific | George Hamilton |
| 83 | Fortunate Son/Down on Corner | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| 84 | Cinnamon | Derek |
| 85 | Games That People Play | Joe South |
| 86 | Hawaii Five-0 | The Ventures |
| 87 | Brother Love’s Travelling… | Neil Diamond |
| 88 | Can I Change My Mind | Tyrone Davis |
| 89 | Quentin’s Theme | Charles Rondolph |
| 90 | Rock Me | Steppenwolf |
| 91 | This Girl’s In Love With You | Dionne Warwick |
| 92 | Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’ | Crazy Elephant |
| 93 | Love Child | The Supremes |
| 94 | Twenty-Five Miles | Edwin Starr |
| 95 | Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon | Paul Revere & The Raiders |
| 96 | My Whole World Ended | David Ruffin |
| 97 | My Cherie Amour | Stevie Wonder |
| 98 | I’d Wait a Million Years | The Grass Roots |
| 99 | Atlantis | Donovan |
| 100 | Chewy Chewy | The Ohio Express |
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