Billboard Canada’s Top 50 of 2016 at Country Radio

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You’ll have to scroll down quite a bit to find a Canadian artist on Billboard Canada’s year-end country airplay chart. Tops was Eric Church’s “Record Year”. Dallas Smith had the most played song by a Canadian; “One Little Kiss” was 30th overall. Eleven of the Top 50 were by Canadian acts representing only 17.6% of the total spins. This is the lowest percentage by far among all radio formats. The 11 is down from 14 Canuck tunes in 2015. Canadian artists are bolded in blue in the list below. The data was collected between the dates of December 5, 2015 and November 26, 2016.

  TITLE ARTIST PLAYS
1 RECORD YEAR Eric Church 20,486
2 DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS Dierks Bentley 18,940
3 YOU LOOK LIKE I NEED A DRINK Justin Moore 18,782
4 SNAPBACK Old Dominion 18,638
5 MAKE YOU MISS ME Sam Hunt 18,399
6 CONFESSION Florida Georgia Line 18,078
7 BREAK ON ME. Keith Urban 18,064
8 WASTED TIME Keith Urban 17,877
9 T-SHIRT Thomas Rhett 17,793
10 HUMBLE AND KIND Tim McGraw 17,636
11 H.O.L.Y. Florida Georgia Line 17,572
12 HEAD OVER BOOTS Jon Pardi 17,040
13 CHURCH BELLS Carrie Underwood 16,995
14 HUNTIN’, FISHIN’, LOVIN’… Luke Bryan 16,979
15 AMERICAN COUNTRY LOVE SONG Jake Owen 16,945
16 WE WENT Randy Houser 16,690
17 DRUNK ON YOUR LOVE Brett Eldredge 16,436
18 I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT Rascal Flatts 16,346
19 CAME HERE TO FORGET Blake Shelton 16,302
20 SOMEWHERE ON A BEACH Dierks Bentley 16,064
21 HOMEALONE TONIGHT Luke Bryan 15,760
22 DIE A HAPPY MAN Thomas Rhett 15,710
23 BEAUTIFUL DRUG Zac Brown Band 15,420
24 THINK OF YOU C. Young/C. Pope 15,262
25 PETER PAN Kelsea Ballerini 15,150
26 HEARTBEAT Carrie Underwood 14,861
27 MY CHURCH Maren Morris 14,815
28 IT DON’T HURT LIKE IT USED TO Billy Currington 14,658
29 LIGHTS COME ON Jason Aldean 14,477
30 ONE LITTLE KISS Dallas Smith 14,468
31 LAWN CHAIR LAZY James Barker Band 14,207
32 SETTING THE WORLD ON FIRE Kenny Chesney 14,184
33 CASTAWAY Zac Brown Band 14,100
34 YOU SHOULD BE HERE Cole Swindell 13,809
35 MOVE Luke Bryan 13,799
36 NOISE Kenny Chesney 13,758
37 I HATE YOU FOR IT Chad Brownlee 13,302
38 PICK ME UP Brett Kissel 13,246
39 SHOT OF GLORY Washboard Union 13,244
40 GOOD KINDA LOVE Jojo Mason 12,959
41 TAKE ME HOME Jess Moskaluke 12,866
42 FIX Chris Lane 12,841
43 STOMPIN’ GROUND Tim Hicks 2,816
44 I LOVE THIS LIFE LoCash 12,681
45 LOVE WOULD BE ENOUGH Dean Brody 12,663
46 HEARD YOU IN A SONG Gord Bamford 12,571
47 HEARTS ON FIRE Chad Brownlee 12,542
48 NOBODY TO BLAME Chris Stapleton 12,447
49 SHE’S GOT A WAY WITH WORDS Blake Shelton 12,393
50 COME ON DOWN High Valley 12,205