The most successful Anglo Canadian song of 2016 was “Sorry” by Justin Bieber which peaked at #1 on the weekly Billboard Canadian Hot 100 and was the biggest song of the year overall. This is the second time since the debut of the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 that a Canadian citizen has topped the year-end chart. Dual citizen Robin Thicke accomplished this in 2013 with “Blurred Lines”. Nine of the 2016 year-end Hot 100 songs that involved Canadian artists peaked at #1 on the weekly charts either in 2016 or 2015. Thirty-two songs involving Canadians made the year-end Top 100 songs which is a record, surpassing 31 in 1996. A number of the 32, however, had Canadians as featured artists. In addition, 24 songs involving Canadians made the weekly Top 40 through the year making for a total of 56 Canadian artist hit singles of 2016.
No Franco song appeared on the Hot 100 through the year. Ten Canadian artist Franco songs made the CKOI year-end Top 50 which we list below. Tops was Les Cowboys Fringants’ “Marine marchande”.
HY = Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart position
HW = Billboard Hot 100 weekly charts, peak position
CY = CKOI year-end Top 50 chart position
2016 Franco Hits
TITLE | ARTIST | CY |
Marine marchande | Les Cowboys Fringants | 6 |
M’aimerais-tu pareil | 2Frères | 13 |
Belle Montrealaise | Sam Harvey | 15 |
Pas plus que ça | Gabrielle Goulet | 24 |
33 tours | 2Frères | 29 |
Plaroid | Alex Nevsky | 33 |
Black Black Heart | David Usher ft. Marie-Mai | 38 |
Octobre | Les Cowboys Fringants | 43 |
Liberte | Groenland | 46 |
Crier tout bas | Coeur de Pirate | 48 |
2016 Anglo Hits
TITLE | ARTIST | HY | HW |
Sorry | Justin Bieber | 1b | 1a |
Love Yourself | Justin Bieber | 2 | 1 |
One Dance | Drake | 4 | 1 |
Work | Rihanna ft. Drake | 13 | 1 |
Cold Water | Major Lazer ft. Justin Bieber | 18 | 1 |
What Do You Mean? | Justin Bieber | 19b | 1a |
Treat You Better | Shawn Mendes | 23c | 7 |
Hotline Bling | Drake | 25b | 3a |
Too Good | Drake | 26 | 9 |
Wild Things | Alessia Cara | 27 | 14 |
Let Me Love You | DJ Snake ft. Justin Bieber | 31c | 4 |
Starboy | The Weeknd | 32c | 1 |
Can’t Feel My Face | The Weeknd | 36b | 1a |
The Hills | The Weeknd | 39b | 1a |
Stitches | Shawn Mendes | 43b | 10a |
Lost Boy | Ruth B | 46 | 14 |
Never Be Like You | Flume ft. Kai | 51 | 21 |
2 Heads | Coleman Hell | 54b | 15a |
Controlla | Drake | 66 | 27 |
In the Night | The Weeknd | 67 | 12a |
Low Life | Future ft. The Weeknd | 72 | 25 |
Pop Style | Drake | 76 | 19 |
Spirits | The Strumbellas | 77 | 23 |
Here | Alessia Cara | 79b | 19 |
Luv | Tory Lanez | 82 | 28 |
I Know What You Did… | Shawn Mendes/C. Cabello | 86 | 19 |
Fireproof | Coleman Hell | 89 | 30 |
Lay You Down Easy | Magic! | 90 | 36 |
Lose Control | Hedley | 91 | 37 |
Where Are U Now | Skrillex/Diplo/Bieber | 92b | 5a |
Might Not | Belly ft. The Weeknd | 93 | 28 |
Hello | Hedley | 94 | 20a |
Party Monster | The Weeknd | 8 | |
Fake Love | Drake | 10 | |
Summer Sixteen | Drake | 12 | |
Scars to Your Beautiful | Alessia Cara | 14 | |
Sidewalks | The Weeknd | 14 | |
Used to This | Future ft. Drake | 17 | |
Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen | 17 | |
Sneakin’ | Drake | 20 | |
Six Feet Under | The Weeknd | 20 | |
No Shopping | French Montana ft. Drake | 25 | |
Rockin’ | The Weeknd | 25 | |
Bobcaygeon | The Tragically Hip | 27 | |
Secrets | The Weeknd | 27 | |
6 Inch | Beyonce ft. The Weeknd | 31 | |
Hype | Drake | 31 | |
With You | Drake ft. PartyNextDoor | 32 | |
True Colours | The Weeknd | 32 | |
False Alarm | The Weeknd | 33 | |
Grammys | Drake | 34 | |
Die For You | The Weeknd | 35 | |
Still Here | Drake | 37 | |
All I Know | The Weeknd | 38 | |
9 | Drake | 39 | |
A Lonely Night | The Weeknd | 40 |
a – Weekly peak achieved in 2015
b – Also made year-end Hot 100 of 2015
c – Also made year-end Hot 100 of 2017
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