C’est quoi? Well, Montreal radio station CKOI has published a year-end Top 50 chart annually since 1976. It includes both international and Canadian and both Anglo and Franco songs. While the latter have a tough time making it onto the national charts, the CKOI chart gives us a good idea of the more popular Franco songs by year. Of all the year-end charts, this one is the most inclusive offering a very balanced presentation. There is greater variety of genres with pop, rock, dance, R&B, folk, soul, and even country. Because of this and other factors, you may find on the chart international Anglo songs that are absent from English language radio playlists. The top Canadian Franco song of 2018 on the chart is “Toutes les femmes savent danser” by rapper loud (#1). We have put initials after the artist name to indicate Canadian Franco (cf) and Canadian Anglo (ca). Of the Top Fifty, 15 involve Canadian artists, up from 13 last year but down from 18 in 2016.
RANK | TITLE | ARTIST |
1 | Toutes les femmes savent danser | loud (cf) |
2 | Zombie | Bad Wolves |
3 | Body (feat. Brando) | Loud Luxury (ca) |
4 | Natural | Imagine Dragons |
5 | Leave a Light On | Tom Walker |
6 | Des p’tits bouts de toi | Roxane Bruneau (cf) |
7 | Be Alright | Dean Lewis |
8 | One Kiss | Calvin Harris |
9 | Fille de personne II | Hubert Lenoir (cf) |
10 | High Hopes | Panic! At The Disco |
11 | Genius | LSD |
12 | Vintage à l’os | Séba et Horg (cf) |
13 | New Rules (Acoustic) | Dua Lipa |
14 | Girls Like You | Maroon 5 |
15 | Familiar | Liam Payne |
16 | Best Friend | Sofi Tukker |
17 | Promises | Calvin Harris |
18 | Shallow | Lady Gaga |
19 | Meant to Be | BEBE REXHA |
20 | Shotgun | George Ezra |
21 | Where’s My Love | SYML |
22 | These Days | Rudimental |
23 | Cinq à Sept | Koriass (cf) |
24 | Simple | Florida Georgia Line |
25 | Youngblood | 5 Seconds Of Summer |
26 | Thunderclouds | LSD |
27 | Better Now | Post Malone |
28 | Belle folie | Éric Lapointe (cf) |
29 | Have It All | Jason Mraz |
30 | Whatever It Takes | Imagine Dragons |
31 | Paradise | George Ezra |
32 | On perd la tête | Swing (cf) |
33 | Nevermind | Dennis Lloyd |
34 | Jackie Chan | Dzeko ft. Preme (ca) |
35 | Empire | Marie-Mai (cf) |
36 | Power Over Me | Dermot Kennedy |
37 | Say Something | Justin Timberlake |
38 | Ça va | Emile Bilodeau (cf) |
39 | Almost Home | Sultan + Shepard (ca) |
40 | That’s It (I’m Crazy) | Sofi Tukker |
41 | Sober Up | AJR |
42 | Léo Gagné | 2Frères (cf) |
43 | Happier | Marshmello |
44 | I Feel Like I’m Drowning | Two Feet |
45 | Dans la nuit | Coeur de Pirate (cf) |
46 | Let You Down | NF |
47 | Love Someone | Lukas Graham |
48 | Corinne | Les Trois Accords (cf) |
49 | Flames | David Guetta & Sia |
50 | Crazy | Lost Frequencies |