Canadian music charts
The Canadian music charts are determined on behalf of Music Canada , the representative of the Canadian music industry. The official top 20 songs and albums are published.
history
The first charts in Canada were created by radio stations and used in their programming. One of the most popular early charts were the radio station CHUM in Toronto , who published their stations hit parade from 1957 to 1986.
Independent, nationwide evaluations of Airplay and the inclusion of record sales existed from 1964. On February 24th, RPM Magazine started as a newsletter with the aim of promoting the Canadian music industry. The private project became the leading trade magazine in Canada and the charts of the magazine, which were introduced on September 1, 1964, developed into the definitive hit parade in the country. Based on the US model ( Billboard magazine ), numerous genre and format evaluations were introduced in addition to the main charts. The magazine existed until November 7, 2000.
Other popular chart lists were published by The Record magazine, first published in 1981. This magazine, too, was first converted into an online magazine in 2000 and discontinued a little later. The reason in both cases was a crisis in the music industry and, as a result, a decline in advertising income.
In addition, the charts in these magazines had lost their significance for music publishers because, with the introduction of data acquisition directly in music stores by Nielsen SoundScan from 1997, more precise data was available for market analysis. The charter survey was commissioned by the members of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), the national representative of the music industry. They were featured in the Canadian Music Network magazine , the CRIA-installed follow-up to The Record , and the online magazine Jam! published by the Quebec Canoe Network. However, the charts were controversial within the music industry. They also lost meaning because of the slump in sales due to the illegal distribution of digital music on the Internet. The single charts, originally created as the Top 200, shrank to the Top 10 before legal music downloads took hold.
When Billboard launched the Canadian Hot 100 as an unofficial single chart modeled on the US Hot 100 for their magazine in 2007 , these became more and more important. It was only after the CRIA was reorganized and renamed Music Canada that its own single and album charts were continuously published on its website from 2012 onwards.
Charts in Canada
The following charts were officially published weekly from 2014 to 2018 on the Music Canada homepage (with archive):
- Top 20 tracks
- Top 20 albums
200 positions are determined from both charts and are also given as previous week positions; only the first 20 positions are officially published.
Billboard publish the top 50 tracks on their website under the name Canadian Digital Song Sales .
See also
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- ^ RPM , Annotated Archive, Library and Archives Canada, accessed October 1, 2015
- ^ Canadian Music Charts ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . December 15, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
- ↑ a b Bruce F. Mowat: The Record ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia . July 3, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
- ↑ a b CRIA, SoundScan At Odds; Labels Ponder New Chart by Larry LeBlanc, in Billboard Magazine, March 6, 2004, page 10/58 ( Google Books )
Web links
- Music Canada (English)
- Canadian Digital Songs on Billboard
- RPM Magazine (Library and Archivers Canada, English)