2018’s Biggest Canadian Hits, Both English and French

The most successful track of 2018 by a Canadian artist was “God’s Plan” by Drake. Reaching #1 on the weekly charts, it finished the year as its third most popular song. Four Drake tracks topped the weekly Hot 100 through the year and one from The Weeknd making a total of five number one hits by Canadians through 2018. The most successful French language single of the year was “Toutes les femmes savent dansers” from rapper Loud. It topped the year-end CKOI chart (which includes non-Franco and non-Canadian entries) and made the Billboard weekly Hot 100 at #94. A second French language single that appeared on the Hot 100 was Yes Mccan’s Desiree (#96).

A dozen Franco entries from Canadians made the CKOI year-end Top 50 and nine from Canadians the year-end Billboard Hot 100 plus an additional five with Canadians as the featured or co-credited artist. A total of 49 tracks involving Canadians reached their peak positions within the Top 40 in 2018. We have listed below French language songs from Canadian artists that made the annual CKOI year-end Top 50 or made the Billboard Hot 100. After that we list tracks from Canadians that made the Billboard year-end top 100 or peaked in the weekly Top 40. Finally we list entries with Canadians as featured or co-credited artists.

HY = Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart position
HW = Billboard Hot 100 weekly charts, peak position
CY = CKOI year-end Top 50 chart position

2018 CKOI Franco Hits

TITLE	ARTIST	CY	HW
Toutes les femmes savent danser	Loud	1	94
Des p’tits bouts de toi	Roxane Bruneau	6
Fille de personne II	Hubert Lenoir	9
Vintage à l’os	Séba et Horg	12
Cinq à Sept	Koriass	23
Belle folie	Éric Lapointe	28
On perd la tête	Swing	32
Empire	Marie-Mai	35
Ça va	Emile Bilodeau	38
Léo Gagné	2Frères	42
Dans la nuit	Coeur de Pirate	45
Corinne	Les Trois Accords	48
Desiree	Yes Mccan		96

2018 Billboard Canada Hits

TITLE	ARTIST	HY	HW
God’s Plan	Drake	3	1
Body	Loud Luxury Ft. Brando	5	3
Nice For What	Drake	9	1
In My Feelings	Drake	11	1
In My Blood	Shawn Mendes	34	9
Call Out My Name	The Weeknd	44	1
Nonstop	Drake	62	1
I’m Upset	Drake	71	5
Ain’t Easy	Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine	84	38
Don’t Matter to Me	Drake		4
Dipomatic Immunity	Drake		6
Try Me	The Weeknd		7
Wasted Times	The Weeknd		8
Mob Ties	Drake		11
I Was Never There	The Weeknd		12
Emotionless	Drake		13
Elevate	Drake		15
Can’t Take a Joke	Drake		16
Hurt You	The Weeknd		17
Talk Up	Drake		17
Survival	Drake		18
8 Out of 10	Drake		19
Lost in Japan	Shawn Mendes		22
Privilege	The Weeknd		22
Youth	Shawn Mendes		22
Summer Games	Drake		27
Sandra’s Rose	Drake		28
Blue Tint	Drake		30
That’s How You Feel	Drake		34
Growing Pains	Alessia Cara		36
Jaded	Drake		36
Peak	Drake		37
Head Above Water	Avril Lavigne		37
Is There More	Drake		38
Finess	Drake		39
After Dark	Drake		40

2018 Partially Canadian Hits

TITLE	ARTIST	HY	HW
Look Alive	Drake (featured)	23	4
Despacito	Justin Bieber (featured)	25	*
Pray For Me	The Weeknd & K. Lamar	33	5
Walk It Talk It	Drake (featured)	52	14
Yes Indeed	Lil Baby & Drake	74	7
Mia	Drake (featured)		3
Going Bad	Drake (featured)		3
Jackie Chan	Dzeko & Tiesto		7
Kika	Tory Lanez (featured)		13
No Stylist	Drake (featured)		16
Never Recover	Drake (featured)		16
Ghost Town	PartyNextDoor (featured)		21
Wouldn’t Leave	PartyNextDoor (featured)		24
Flip the Switch	Drake (featured)		26

* – Weekly peak achieved in 2017, also made the year-end 2017 chart.

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CKOI Year-End Top 50 of 2018

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

Billboard Year-End Canadian Hot 100 Artists of 2018

Billboard has published a year-end chart for the Top 25 artists of 2018 based on the chart performance of their Hot 100 singles in Canada. Drake takes the crown; he was #2 last year. Only three other homegrown acts join him on the chart: The Weeknd (#14), Shawn Mendes (#20), and Loud Luxury squeaks in at #25. They are bolded in red in the chart below.

1. Drake
2. Post Malone
3. Ed Sheeran
4. Cardi B
5. Camila Cabello
6. XXXTENTACION
7. Imagine Dragons
8. Dua Lipa
9. Ariana Grande
10. Eminem
11. Khalid
12. Marshmello
13. Maroon 5
14. The Weeknd
15. Travis Scott
16. Migos
17. Taylor Swift
18. Juice WRLD
19. Kendrick Lamar
20. Shawn Mendes
21. 6ix9ine
22. Florida Georgia Line
23. Nicki Minaj
24. Bebe Rexha
25. Loud Luxury

Billboard Top Canadian Albums of 2018, Year-End Chart

Billboard Canada has released its year-end Top 50 albums chart for 2018. The #1 album in Canada for the year was Scorpion by Drake. By the time this chart was unveiled, the album had been certified double platinum by Music Canada. Two older albums from the Torontonian urban artist also made the Top 50 this year – 2017’s More Life (#27) and 2016’s Views (#38). Only three other homegrown acts appear in the chart. Shawn Mendes lands at 19th of the year for his self-titled third studio album. Yer Favourites from The Tragically Hip, a greatest hits compilation from 2005, takes #30. The Weeknd has two entries: this year’s EP My Dear Melancholy hits #37 and 2016’s Starboy does better at #28. This makes a total of only seven Canadian artist albums in the Top 50 for 2018. Last year saw 12. In the chart below we have bolded Canadian artists in red.

	TITLE	ARTIST
1	Scorpion	Drake
2	÷ (Divide)	Ed Sheeran
3	beerbongs & bentleys	Post Malone
4	reputation	Taylor Swift
5	Revival	Eminem
6	Stoney	Post Malone
7	Evolve	Imagine Dragons
8	?	XXXTENTACION
9	Beautiful Trauma	P!nk
10	Kamikaze	Eminem
11	Black Panther Soundtrack	Various Artists
12	Culture II	Migos
13	ASTROWORLD	Travis Scott
14	Invasion Of Privacy	Cardi B
15	Red Pill Blues	Maroon 5
16	Camila	Camila Cabello
17	The Greatest Showman	Various Artists
18	American Teen	Khalid
19	Shawn Mendes	Shawn Mendes
20	DAMN.	Kendrick Lamar
21	Graffiti U	Keith Urban
22	Curtain Call: The Hits	Eminem
23	17	XXXTENTACION
24	Dua Lipa	Dua Lipa
25	Goodbye & Good Riddance	Juice WRLD
26	The Beautiful & Damned	G-Eazy
27	More Life	Drake
28	Starboy	The Weeknd
29	The Thrill Of It All	Sam Smith
30	Yer Favorites	The Tragically Hip
31	A Star Is Born (Soundtrack)	Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
32	Luv Is Rage 2	Lil Uzi Vert
33	Perception	NF
34	KOD	J. Cole
35	Sweetener	Ariana Grande
36	This One’s For You	Luke Combs
37	My Dear Melancholy (EP)	The Weeknd
38	Views	Drake
39	x	Ed Sheeran
40	Queen	Nicki Minaj
41	Life Changes	Thomas Rhett
42	Man Of The Woods	Justin Timberlake
43	Without Warning	21 Savage, Offset, Metro Boomin
44	From The Fires	Greta Van Fleet
45	Tha Carter V	Lil Wayne
46	Life Of A Dark Rose	Lil Skies
47	ye	Kanye West
48	Youngblood	5 Seconds Of Summer
49	Tell Me You Love Me	Demi Lovato
50	24K Magic	Bruno Mars

Billboard Canadian Hot 100 of 2018, Year-End Chart

Billboard Canada has released the year-end top 100 singles of 2018 which are listed below. The top song of the year is “Havana” by Cuba’s Camila Cabello, formerly with United States based R&B group Fifth Harmony. The top track by a Canadian artist is “God’s Plan” by Drake at #3. We have cleaned up the list by removing the eyesore of featured artists on this year’s chart unless it was a lone Canadian. Dual main artists are kept. Canadian artists are bolded in red. There are 15 entries with a Canadian as the main, co-main, or lone featured artist. Eight of these involve Drake. The Canadian Hot 100 is determined by a weighting system of radio airplay, online streaming, and purchased downloads. More year-end and other Canadian charts can be found here.

RANK	TITLE	ARTIST
1	Havana	Camila Cabello
2	Perfect	Ed Sheeran
3	God’s Plan	Drake
4	Rockstar	Post Malone
5	Body	Loud Luxury Ft. Brando
6	Girls Like You	Maroon 5
7	Meant To Be	Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
8	Psycho	Post Malone
9	Nice For What	Drake
10	I Like It	Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin
11	In My Feelings	Drake
12	The Middle	Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey
13	No Tears Left To Cry	Ariana Grande
14	Better Now	Post Malone
15	Sad!	XXXTENTACION
16	Friends	Marshmello & Anne-Marie
17	New Rules	Dua Lipa
18	Thunder	Imagine Dragons
19	One Kiss	Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa
20	Lucid Dreams	Juice WRLD
21	Love Lies	Khalid & Normani
22	Finesse	Bruno Mars & Cardi B
23	Look Alive	BlocBoy JB Ft. Drake
24	Never Be The Same	Camila Cabello
25	Despacito	Fonsi & Yankee Ft. Justin Bieber
26	Youngblood	5 Seconds Of Summer
27	Wolves	Selena Gomez X Marshmello
28	Silence	Marshmello
29	River	Eminem
30	Taste	Tyga
31	Jackie Chan	Tiesto & Dzeko Ft. Preme & Post Malone
32	Back To You	Selena Gomez
33	Pray For Me	The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar
34	In My Blood	Shawn Mendes
35	This Is America	Childish Gambino
36	Delicate	Taylor Swift
37	Let You Down	NF
38	Whatever It Takes	Imagine Dragons
39	Shape Of You	Ed Sheeran
40	All The Stars	Kendrick Lamar & SZA
41	Gucci Gang	Lil Pump
42	Feel It Still	Portugal. The Man
43	Him & I	G-Eazy & Halsey
44	Call Out My Name	The Weeknd
45	Mine	Bazzi
46	Say Something	Justin Timberlake
47	Too Good At Goodbyes	Sam Smith
48	I Fall Apart	Post Malone
49	Ric Flair Drip	Offset & Metro Boomin
50	FEFE	6ix9ine
51	Sicko Mode	Travis Scott
52	Walk It Talk It	Migos Ft. Drake
53	Solo	Clean Bandit
54	Plug Walk	Rich The Kid
55	Unforgettable	French Montana
56	What Lovers Do	Maroon 5
57	No Limit	G-Eazy
58	Let Me Go	Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso
59	Freaky Friday	Lil Dicky
60	Eastside	Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid
61	How Long	Charlie Puth
62	Nonstop	Drake
63	MotorSport	Migos, Nicki Minaj & Cardi B
64	IDGAF	Dua Lipa
65	No Brainer	DJ Khaled Ft. Justin Bieber et al.
66	God Is A Woman	Ariana Grande
67	Mi Gente	J Balvin & Willy William
68	Happier	Marshmello & Bastille
69	Bad At Love	Halsey
70	Bodak Yellow	Cardi B
71	I’m Upset	Drake
72	Moonlight	XXXTENTACION
73	Nevermind	Dennis Lloyd
74	Yes Indeed	Lil Baby & Drake
75	Stir Fry	Migos
76	Not A Love Song	Bulow
77	Plain Jane	A$AP Ferg
78	I Love It	Kanye West & Lil Pump
79	Bartier Cardi	Cardi B
80	These Days	Rudimental
81	Young Dumb & Broke	Khalid
82	Ball For Me	Post Malone
83	Powerglide	Rae Sremmurd & Juicy J
84	Ain’t Easy	Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine
85	Wait	Maroon 5
86	Simple	Florida Georgia Line
87	Echame La Culpa	Luis Fonsi & Demi Lovato
88	Changes	XXXTENTACION
89	Natural	Imagine Dragons
90	Zombie	Bad Wolves
91	I’m A Mess	Bebe Rexha
92	Remind Me To Forget	Kygo
93	Heaven	Kane Brown
94	Dusk Till Dawn	Zayn
95	X	Nicky Jam x J Balvin
96	OTW	Khalid, Ty Dolla $ign & 6LACK
97	King’s Dead	Jay Rock, K. Lamar, Future & J. Blake
98	Gummo	6ix9ine
99	Marry Me	Thomas Rhett
100	Praise The Lord	A$AP Rocky

2017’s Biggest Canadian Hits, Both English and French

The most successful song of 2017 that involved a Canadian artist was “Despacito” featuring Justin Bieber which peaked at #1 on the weekly Hot 100 and was the second biggest song of the year overall. The biggest English language song with a Canadian as the main artist was “Starboy” from the Weeknd. Although it finished the year as its 6th most popular tune, it peaked at #1 on the weekly charts last year (2016) and also made the previous year-end chart at #32. The most successful Canadian artist song reaching its peak position in the weekly charts of 2017 was Shawn Mendes’ “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” with a year-end placement of #16 and weekly peak of #6.

In total, 17 tracks involving Canadian artists made the year-end Hot 100. A total of 34 maple-glazed tunes peaked within the Top 40 during the year 2017. No French-language song made the Hot 100 through the year. We have listed below French language songs from Canadian artists that made the annual CKOI year-end Top 50 – seven in all.

HY = Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart position
HW = Billboard Hot 100 weekly charts, peak position
CY = CKOI year-end Top 50 chart position

2017 CKOI Franco Hits

TITLE	ARTIST	CY
Une p’tite biere	Anthony Gaudet	21
J’pas stressée	Roxane Bruneau	24
Roadtrip	Les Chiens de Ruelles	27
T’embellis ma vie	Yann Perreau	31
Fou	Andreanne A. Malette	42
Kamikaze	Patrice Michaud	45
Il y a tant a faire	Daniel Belanger	48

2017 Billboard Canada Hits

TITLE	ARTIST	HY	HW
Despacito	Fonsi/Yankee ft. Justin Bieber	2	1
Starboy	The Weeknd	6a	1b
There’s Nothing Holding…	Shawn Mendes	16	6
Stay	Alessia Cara & Zedd	22	9
I Feel It Coming	The Weeknd	23	10
Passionfruit	Drake	33	2
Let Me Love You	DJ Snake ft. Justin Bieber	41a	4b
Fake Love	Drake	49	10b
Signs	Drake	52	12
2U	D. Guetta ft. Justin Bieber	54	4
Scars to Your Beautiful	Alessia Cara	70	14b
Treat You Better	Shawn Mendes	71a	7b
Friends	Justin Bieber & BloodPop	83	4
Mercy	Shawn Mendes	84	22
Reminding Me	Shawn Hook	86	30
Party Monster	The Weeknd	91	8b
Portland	Drake	95	6
Blem	Drake		8
Free Smoke	Drake		12
Gyalchester	Drake		13
No Long Talk	Drake		14
Reminder	The Weeknd		16
Get It Together	Drake		20
Teenage Fever	Drake		22
Still Got Time	Zayn ft. PartyNextDoor		22
Madiba Riddim	Drake		23
KMT	Drake		25
Sacrifices	Drake		26
4422	Drake		27
Jorja Interlude	Drake		28
Some Way	NAV ft. The Weeknd		31
To the Max	DJ Khaled ft. Drake		32
Wanted You	NAV		33
Skepta Interlude	Drake		36
Glow	Drake		37
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot…	Michael Buble		39
Lust for Life	Lana Del Rey ft. The Weeknd		39
Lights Out	Virginia to Vegas		40
Nothings Into Somethings	Drake		40
Curve	Gucci Mane ft. The Weeknd		40

a – Also made year-end Hot 100 of 2016
b – Weekly peak achieved in 2016

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Top 100 Singles of 1998 in Canada

According to RPM Magazine, the biggest song of 1998 in Canada was “My Heart Will Go On” by Céline Dion, theme song of blockbuster feature film Titanic by Canadian director James Cameron. While the movie smashed all box office records, the song became Dion’s biggest hit and one of the best-selling singles of all-time worldwide. An incredible total of 41 songs from the year-end top 100 chart below involve Canadian artists who are marked  in red. The Canadian charts are an accurate reflection of Canadian tastes in music, and the Top 100 songs were determined both from radio airplay and nationwide sales 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	My Heart Will Go On	Celine Dion
2	Adia	Sarah McLachlan
3	Torn	Natalie Imbruglia
4	Ooh La La	Rod Stewart
5	My Father’s Eyes	Eric Clapton
6	Truly, Madly, Deeply	Savage Garden
7	From This Moment On	Shania Twain w/B. White
8	I’m Ready	Bryan Adams
9	Crush	Jennifer Paige
10	You’re Still the One	Shania Twain
11	Back to You	Bryan Adams
12	Frozen	Madonna
13	Immortality	Celine Dion
14	On a Day Like Today	Bryan Adams
15	This Kiss	Faith Hill
16	As Long As You Love Me	Backstreet Boys
17	Mummer’s Dance	Loreena McKennitt
18	Cruel Summer	Ace of Base
19	One Week	Barenaked Ladies
20	Sweet Surrender	Sarah McLachlan
21	Recover Your Soul	Elton John
22	I’m Your Angel	Celine Dion
23	Love, Pain, and the Whole…	Amy Sky
24	True Colours	Phil Collins
25	Your Life Is Now	John Mellancamp
26	Wishing That	Jann Arden
27	I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing	Aerosmith
28	Kiss the Rain	Billie Myers
29	At the Beginning	D. Lewis/R. Marx
30	Stop	Spice Girls
31	Something About the Way…	Elton John
32	Cry	Philosopher Kings
33	Hands	Jewel
34	I Know You	Jann Arden
35	Too Much	Spice Girls
36	Looking Through Your Eyes	Leann Rimes
37	Ordinary Day	Great Big Sea
38	Viva Forever	Spice Girls
39	Time	Lionel Richie
40	I Do	Lisa Loeb
41	Give Me Forever	John Tesh w/J. Ingram
42	So Help Me Girl	Gary Barlow
43	The Best of Love	Michael Bolton
44	I’ll Never Break Your Heart	Backstreet Boys
45	High	Lighthouse Family
46	Tubthumper	Chumbawamba
47	Surrounded	Chantal Kreviazuk
48	The Sound Of	Jann Arden
49	Thank U	Alanis Morissette
50	Kind & Generous	Natalie Merchant
51	The Way	Fastball
52	My Favourite Mistake	Sheryl Crow
53	With These Eyes	Roch Voisine
54	Foolish Games	Jewel
55	Cry Ophelia	Adam Cohen
56	Nobody’s Supposed to…	Deborah Cox
57	3 AM	Matchbox 20
58	If I Could	Joee
59	It’s the End of the World	Great Big Sea
60	The Sweetest Thing	U2
61	I’ll Be	Edwin McCain
62	Lullaby	Shawn Mullins
63	Trust Me This Is Love	Amanda Marshall
64	Dreams	The Corrs
65	Falling	Bruce Guthro
66	How Could an Angel…	Toni Braxton/Kenny G
67	Miss You Like Crazy	The Moffatts
68	Heaven’s What I Feel	Gloria Estefan
69	I Wonder	Tom Cochrane
70	Your Love	J. Brickman w/M. Wright
71	Tell Him	Celine Dion & B. Streisand
72	Safe Place From the Storm	Michael Bolton
73	Into You	3 Deep
74	I Will Wait	Hootie and the Blowfish
75	Hurts to Love You	Philosopher Kings
76	Unbound	Robbie Robertson
77	Iris	Goo Goo Dolls
78	All Roads Lead to You	Chicago
79	Never Ever	All Saints
80	Show Me Love	Robyn
81	Miles to Go Before I Sleep	Celine Dion
82	My All	Mariah Carey
83	Half on a Baby	R. Kelly
84	A Promise I Make	Dakota Moon
85	Promise Ain’t Enough	Hall & Oates
86	Searchin’ My Soul	Vonda Shepard
87	After All These Years	A. Cochan w/ J. Brickman
88	Poets	Tragically Hip
89	When You Believe	W. Houston w/M. Carey
90	Leaving On a Jet Plane	Chantal Kreviazuk
91	I Want You Back	N’Sync
92	Everywhere	Bran Van 3000
93	Ohh It’s Kinda Crazy	soulDecision
94	It’s Just My Luck	VIP
95	Like I Love You	Amy Grant
96	Walk This Road	Bruce Guthro
97	Me	Paula Cole
98	One Belief Away	Bonnie Raitt
99	The Power of Goodbye	Madonna
100	I Can’t Go for That	The Nylons

2017 Hits Internationally by or Featuring Canadians

Find below a list of all songs by or featuring a Canadian artist that made it into the year-end Top 100 of Canada (17), The United Kingdom (10), Australia (11), The United States (12), and Japan (3). It is interesting to note that Shawn Mendes’ “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” was biggest in Australia where it finished 10th of the year. Aussies also liked “Stay” with Alessia Cara more than the other countries. Brits preferred Drake’s “Passionfruit” over the other nations, while Americans had it in for “Both” featuring the rapper. Enjoy the table below.

TITLE	ARTIST	CA	UK	AU	US	JP
Despacito	Ft. Justin Bieber	2	2	2	2
Starboy	The Weeknd	6	59	42	20
There’s Nothing Holdin’…	Shawn Mendes	16	16	10	23
Stay	Zedd & Alessia Cara	22	37	14	17	66
I Feel It Coming	The Weeknd	23	66	39	34
Passionfruit	Drake	33	30	66	65
Let Me Love You	Ft. Justin Bieber	41			46
Fake Love	Drake	49	91		37
Signs	Drake	52
2U	Ft. Justin Bieber	54	64	69
Scars To Your Beautiful	Alessia Cara	70		87	30
Treat You Better	Shawn Mendes	71			92
Friends	J. Bieber + BloodPop	83	93	63
Mercy	Shawn Mendes	84			54
Reminding Me	Shawn Hook	86
Party Monster	The Weeknd	91
Portland	Drake	95
What Do You Mean?	Justin Bieber					21
Sorry	Justin Bieber					92
Both	Ft. Drake				83
How Far I’ll Go	Alessia Cara			76
Never Be Like You	Ft. Kai			97
One Dance	Drake		80

CKOI Year-End Top 50 of 2017

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 2017 on the chart is (surprise!) “Une p’tite bière” by Anthony Gaudet at #21. Canadian artists are in red. Franco songs are in blue. Of the 50, 13 involve Canadian artists, down from 18 last year.

1 – SHAPE OF YOU / ED SHEERAN

2 – KATCHI / OFENBACH

3 – DESPACITO / LUIS FONSI & JUSTIN BIEBER

4 – BELIEVER / IMAGINE DRAGONS

5 – SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS / CHAINSMOKERS & COLDPLAY

6 – BE MINE / OFENBACH

7 – SIGN OF THE TIMES / HARRY STYLES

8 – 13 / ALLAN RAYMAN

9 – TUESDAY / BURAK YETER

10 – ROCKABYE / CLEAN BANDIT & SEAN PAUL

11 – MAIN GIRL / CHARLOTTE CARDIN

12 – FEEL IT STILL / PORTUGAL THE MAN

13 – FEELS / CALVIN HARRIS

14 – NO ROOTS / ALICE MERTON

15 – PERFECT / ED SHEERAN

16 – THUNDER / IMAGINE DRAGONS

17 – ONE MORE LIGHT / LINKIN PARK

18 – UH HUH / JULIA MICHAELS

19 – REDBONE / CHILDISH GAMBINO

20 – WHAT ABOUT US / PINK

21 – UNE P’TITE BIERE / ANTHONY GAUDET

22 – DOWN / MARIAN HILL

23 – RX / THEORY OF A DEADMAN

24 – J’PAS STRESSÉE / ROXANE BRUNEAU

25 – DANCING ON MY OWN / CALUM SCOTT

26 – THERE’S NOTHING HOLDIN’ ME BACK / SHAWN MENDES

27 – ROADTRIP / LES CHIENS DE RUELLES

28 – GALWAY GIRL / ED SHEERAN

29 – SKIN / RAG’N’BONE MAN

30 – YOUNG DUMB & BROKE / KHALID

31 – T’EMBELLIS MA VIE / YANN PERREAU

32 – I FEEL IT COMING / THE WEEKND

33 – HAVANA / CAMILA CABELLO

34 – BODY LIKE A BACK ROAD / SAM HUNT

35 – DOMMAGE / BIGFLO & OLI

36 – LEGENDARY / WELSHLY ARMS

37 – HIGHWAY TUNE / GRETA VAN FLEET

38 – NOT EASY / ALEX DA KID

39 – NATION / TIBZ

40 – MALIBU / MILEY CYRUS

41 – NO WITNESS / LP

42 – FOU / ANDREANNE A. MALETTE

43 – WILD HORSES / BISHOP BRIGGS

44 – SAY YOU WON’T LET GO / JAMES ARTHUR

45 – KAMIKAZE / PATRICE MICHAUD

46 – CASTLE ON THE HILL / ED SHEERAN

47 – ONE DAY / ASAF AVIDAN

48 – IL Y A TANT A FAIRE / DANIEL BELANGER

49 – HEAR ME NOW / ALOK

50 – LAY IT ON ME / VANCE JOY

Billboard Canada Year-End Top Artists by Radio Format, 2017

RANK	ALL FORMAT	CHR
1	Ed Sheeran	Ed Sheeran
2	Shawn Mendes	The Weeknd
3	The Chainsmokers	Shawn Mendes
4	Bruno Mars	The Chainsmokers
5	The Weeknd	Drake
6	Niall Horan	Bruno Mars
7	Alessia Cara	Alessia Cara
8	Hedley	Niall Horan
9	Maroon 5	Virginia to Vegas
10	Virginia to Vegas	Maroon 5
RANK	HOT AC	AC
1	Ed Sheeran	Ed Sheeran
2	Shawn Mendes	Shawn Mendes
3	Bruno Mars	Bruno Mars
4	Alessia Cara	Maroon 5
5	The Chainsmokers	Adele
6	Hedley	Justin Timberlake
7	Niall Horan	Niall Horan
8	The Weeknd	Hedley
9	Maroon 5	The Chainsmokers
10	Adele	Michael Buble
RANK	COUNTRY	ROCK
1	Dallas Smith	Arkells
2	Blake Shelton	Green Day
3	Thomas Rhett	July Talk
4	Jon Pardi	Imagine Dragons
5	James Barker Band	Kings of Leon
6	Jason Aldean	Rag ‘N’ Bone Man
7	Old Dominion	Mother Mother
8	Dustin Lynch	The Glorious Sons
9	Kenny Chesney	Queens of the Stone Age
10	Chad Brownlee	Foo Fighters

Billboard Canada Year-End Country Airplay of 2017

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 Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road”. Dallas Smith has the highest Canadian artist entry with “Sky Stays This Blue” at #20. Nineof the Top 50 were by Canadian acts down from 11 last year and 14 in 2015. Canadian artists are bolded in red in the chart below. The data was collected between the dates of December 6, 2016 and November 25, 2017.

RANK	TITLE	ARTIST	PLAYS
1	Body Like A Back Road	Sam Hunt	26,211
2	No Such Thing As A Broken Heart	Old Dominion	23,659
3	Dirt On My Boots	Jon Pardi	21,766
4	Heartache On The Dance Floor	Jon Pardi	20,165
5	In Case You Didn’t Know	Brett Young	19,933
6	Black	Dierks Bentley	19,451
7	Yours If You Want It	Rascal Flatts	19,411
8	Better Man	Little Big Town	19,131
9	Every Time I Hear That Song	Blake Shelton	19,030
10	It Ain’t My Fault	Brothers Osborne	18,896
11	Craving You	Thomas Rhett	18,734
12	Drinkin’ Problem	Midland	18,546
13	Fast	Luke Bryan	18,404
14	More Girls Like You	Kip Moore	18,298
15	You Look Good	Lady Antebellum	18,248
16	Small Town Boy	Dustin Lynch	18,024
17	Kill A Word	Eric Church	17,891
18	For Her	Chris Lane	17,852
19	Any Ol’ Barstool	Jason Aldean	17,602
20	Sky Stays This Blue	Dallas Smith	17,465
21	Do I Make You Wanna	Billy Currington	17,378
22	Yeah Boy	Kelsea Ballerini	17,376
23	Chills	James Barker Band	17,326
24	Flatliner	Cole Swindell	17,073
25	All The Pretty Girls	Kenny Chesney	16,791
26	Fix A Drink	Chris Janson	16,753
27	Hurricane	Luke Combs	16,752
28	Somebody Else Will	Justin Moore	16,645
29	Time	Dean Brody	16,304
30	Star Of The Show	Thomas Rhett	16,257
31	I Could Use A Love Song	Maren Morris	16,044
32	They Don’t Know	Jason Aldean	16,021
33	A Guy With A Girl	Blake Shelton	16,001
34	Round Here Buzz	Eric Church	15,838
35	God, Your Mama, And Me	Florida Georgia Line	15,744
36	The Fighter	Keith Urban	15,636
37	Side Effects	Dallas Smith	15,439
38	Slide Over	Tim Hicks	15,356
39	I Be U Be	High Valley	15,276
40	Seein’ Red	Dustin Lynch	15,154
41	When It Rains It Pours	Luke Combs	14,993
42	Hometown Girl	Josh Turner	14,537
43	Bar At The End Of The World	Kenny Chesney	14,478
44	Today	Brad Paisley	14,205
45	Wanna Be That Song	Brett Eldredge	14,147
46	Slow Burn	Tim Hicks	13,999
47	Dirty Laundry	Carrie Underwood	13,770
48	Crazy About You	The Road Hammers	13,701
49	Every Little Thing	Carly Pearce	13,646
50	Just Sayin’	James Barker Band	13,623

Billboard Canada Year-End Rock Airplay of 2017

Hamilton’s Arkells topped the rock radio year-end Billboard Canada chart with “Knocking at the Door”. Fifteen of the Top 40 were by Canadian acts, the same number as last year. These artists are bolded in red in the chart below. The data was collected between the dates of December 6, 2016 and November 25, 2017.

RANK	TITLE	ARTIST	PLAYS
1	Knocking At The Door	Arkells	19,083
2	Believer	Imagine Dragons	16,986
3	Human	Rag’n’Bone Man	16,959
4	The Way You Used To Do	Queens of The Stone Age	16,250
5	Still Breathing	Green Day	13,896
6	Lights Out	Royal Blood	13,584
7	Waste A Moment	Kings Of Leon	13,108
8	Freeze Me	Death From Above 1979	11,869
9	The Drugs	Mother Mother	11,621
10	She’s Out Of Her Mind	Blink-182	11,406
11	Picturing Love	July Talk	11,222
12	Highway	Bleeker	11,196
13	Beck + Call	July Talk	10,670
14	Run	Foo Fighters	9,193
15	High	Sir Sly	8,870
16	The Violence	Rise Against	8,725
17	Devil’s On Fire	Headstones	8,591
18	Highway Tune	Greta Van Fleet	8,490
19	Feel It Still	Portugal. The Man	8,346
20	Everything Is Alright	The Glorious Sons	8,342
21	Kill The Lights	The Glorious Sons	8,193
22	Square Hammer	Ghost	8,186
23	13	Allan Rayman	8,127
24	Born Yesterday	Hollerado	8,054
25	Love Is Mystical	Cold War Kids	7,900
26	Wish I Knew You	The Revivalists	7,624
27	My Heart’s Always Yours	Arkells	7,619
28	Go Robot	Red Hot Chili Peppers	7,539
29	Raging Bull	One Bad Son	7,492
30	One Good Piece Of Me	Big Wreck	7,409
31	Near To The Wild Heart	Japandroids	7,108
32	Sky Is A Neighborhood	Foo Fighters	7,018
33	The Man	The Killers	6,554
34	Help	Papa Roach	6,392
35	Blood In The Cut	k.flay	6,281
36	Reverend	Kings Of Leon	6,224
37	Cold Cold Cold	Cage The Elephant	6,023
38	Revolution Radio	Green Day	5,735
39	No Good	Kaleo	5,655
40	Cocoon	Milky Chance	5,637

Billboard Canada Year-End AC Airplay of 2017

Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” topped the Adult Contemporary airplay year-end Billboard Canada chart. The top spun Canadian artist track at the format was The Weeknd’s “I Feel It Coming” at #5. Eighteen of the Top 40 were by or featuring a Canadian artist, up from 16 for the past two years. Canadian artists are bolded in red in the chart below. The data was collected between the dates of December 6, 2016 and November 25, 2017.

RANK	TITLE	ARTIST	PLAYS
1	Shape Of You	Ed Sheeran	15969
2	Don’t Wanna Know	Maroon 5	13404
3	Water Under The Bridge	Adele	13075
4	Can’t Stop The Feeling!	Justin Timberlake	12455
5	I Feel It Coming	The Weeknd	11195
6	Something Just Like This	The Chainsmokers & Coldplay	11084
7	Say You Won’t Let Go	James Arthur	10788
8	Cheap Thrills	Sia	9758
9	Castle On The Hill	Ed Sheeran	9700
10	Love On The Brain	Rihanna	8809
11	Chained To The Rhythm	Katy Perry	8712
12	There’s Nothing Holdin’…	Shawn Mendes	8667
13	24K Magic	Bruno Mars	8618
14	Scars To Your Beautiful	Alessia Cara	8605
15	Kinda Complicated	Scott Helman	8231
16	Electric Love	Serena Ryder	7928
17	It Ain’t Me	Kygo x Selena Gomez	7636
18	I Believe In You	Michael Buble	7341
19	Let Me Love You	DJ Snake Ft. Justin Bieber	7209
20	That’s What I Like	Bruno Mars	7150
21	Closer	The Chainsmokers	6810
22	Love Me Now	John Legend	6801
23	Treat You Better	Shawn Mendes	6619
24	Lights Out	Virginia To Vegas	6573
25	Despacito	Fonsi/Yankee Ft. Justin Bieber	6542
26	Love Again	Hedley	6179
27	Play That Song	Train	5955
28	Slow Hands	Niall Horan	5887
29	This Town	Niall Horan	5820
30	Mercy	Shawn Mendes	5705
31	Reminding Me	Shawn Hook	5521
32	Can’t Slow Down	Hedley	5298
33	Fire In My Soul	Walk Off The Earth	5127
34	Who Do You Love	Marianas Trench	5078
35	What About Us	P!nk	4945
36	Sign Of The Times	Harry Styles	4932
37	Cold	Maroon 5	4746
38	Superficial Love	Ruth B	4522
39	The Greatest	Sia	4417
40	Bend	Ria Mae	4295

Billboard Year-End Canadian Hot 100 Artists of 2017

Billboard has published a year-end chart for the Top 25 artists of 2017 based on the chart performance of their Hot 100 singles in Canada. Ed Sheeran takes the crown followed by Drake. Five homegrowners in total made the Top 25. Find them in red below.

1. Ed Sheeran
2. Drake
3. The Chainsmokers
4. The Weeknd
5. Kendrick Lamar
6. Bruno Mars
7. Imagine Dragons
8. Shawn Mendes
9. Future
10. DJ Khaled
11. Justin Bieber
12. Taylor Swift
13. Calvin Harris
14. Selena Gomez
15. Post Malone
16. Lil Uzi Vert
17. Migos
18. Luis Fonsi
19. Niall Horan
20. Charlie Puth
21. Alessia Cara
22. James Arthur
23. Clean Bandit
24. Daddy Yankee
25. French Montana

Billboard Canada Year-End CHR Airplay of 2017

Once again, Eddie Sheeran takes the cake. His “Shape of You” tops CHR (contemporary hit radio) airplay. The Biebs clocks in at #3 with his feature in “Despacito” while Shawn Mendes backs him up with “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” at #4. Fifteen of the Top 40 were by or featuring a Canadian artist down from 17 last year. Canadian artists are bolded in red in the chart below. The data was collected between the dates of December 6, 2016 and November 25, 2017.

RANK	TITLE	ARTIST	PLAYS
1	Shape Of You	Ed Sheeran	49167
2	It Ain’t Me	Kygo x Selena Gomez	45147
3	Despacito	Fonsi/Yankee Ft. Justin Bieber	41840
4	There’s Nothing Holdin’…	Shawn Mendes	41383
5	I Feel It Coming	The Weeknd	37530
6	Something Just Like This	The Chainsmokers & Coldplay	36321
7	Stay	Zedd & Alessia Cara	34402
8	That’s What I Like	Bruno Mars	32741
9	Scars To Your Beautiful	Alessia Cara	32476
10	Starboy	The Weeknd	31204
11	Slow Hands	Niall Horan	30884
12	Side To Side	Ariana Grande	30112
13	I Don’t Wanna Live Forever	Zayn x Taylor Swift	28944
14	Don’t Wanna Know	Maroon 5	28441
15	Attention	Charlie Puth	28096
16	Let Me Love You	DJ Snake Ft. Justin Bieber	28032
17	Say You Won’t Let Go	James Arthur	27595
18	Paris	The Chainsmokers	27488
19	Closer	The Chainsmokers	25575
20	Reminding Me	Shawn Hook	25508
21	Castle On The Hill	Ed Sheeran	24780
22	Reminder	The Weeknd	23962
23	Strip That Down	Liam Payne	23737
24	Passionfruit	Drake	23615
25	Believer	Imagine Dragons	22805
26	Not Going Home	DVBBS X CMC$	22477
27	Run Up	Major Lazer	22463
28	Love On The Brain	Rihanna	21836
29	Selfish	Virginia To Vegas	21691
30	Love Again	Hedley	20722
31	24K Magic	Bruno Mars	20464
32	I’m the One	DJ Khaled	19756
33	Rockabye	Clean Bandit	19750
34	Signs	Drake	19588
35	Starving	Hailee Steinfeld & Grey	18709
36	Mercy	Shawn Mendes	18544
37	Lights Out	Virginia To Vegas	17567
38	Wild Thoughts	DJ Khaled	17535
39	This Town	Niall Horan	17235
40	Chained To The Rhythm	Katy Perry	17215