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This is a summary of the year 2008 in the Canadian music industry.
These are the top selling albums in Canada. These albums consist of Canadian sales only.
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | Nickelback | Dark Horse | 1 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum [4] |
2 | Simple Plan | Simple Plan | 2 | 200,000 | Platinum [5] |
3 | The Canadian Tenors | The Canadian Tenors | 22 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
4 | Celine Dion | My Love: Essential Collection | 2 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
5 | City and Colour | Bring Me Your Love | 3 | 80,000 | Platinum |
6 | Cœur de pirate | Cœur de pirate | N/A | 80,000 | Platinum |
7 | Sarah McLachlan | Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan | 3 | 80,000 | Platinum |
8 | Theory of a Deadman | Scars & Souvenirs | 2 | 80,000 | Platinum |
9 | Sam Roberts | Love at the End of the World | 1 | 50,000 | Gold [6] |
10 | Tara Oram | Chasing the Sun | 8 | 50,000 | Gold |
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | Lady Gaga | The Fame | 1 | 560,000 | 7× Platinum |
2 | Taylor Swift | Fearless | 1 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum |
3 | Kings of Leon | Only by the Night | 2 | 320,000 | 4× Platinum |
4 | Pink | Funhouse | 3 | 250,000 | 2× Platinum |
5 | Beyoncé | I Am... Sasha Fierce | 6 | 240,000 | 3× Platinum [7] |
6 | Britney Spears | Circus | 1 | 240,000 | 3× Platinum |
7 | Guns N' Roses | Chinese Democracy | 2 | 240,000 | 3× Platinum |
8 | Metallica | Death Magnetic | 1 | 240,000 | 3× Platinum |
9 | Katy Perry | One of the Boys | 6 | 200,000 | 2× Platinum |
10 | Lil Wayne | Tha Carter III | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | Coldplay | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends | 1 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum |
2 | Adele | 19 | 4 | 240,000 | 3× Platinum [8] |
3 | Seal | Soul | 11 | 80,000 | Platinum [9] |
4 | Bullet for My Valentine | Scream Aim Fire | N/A | 40,000 | Gold |
5 | Natasha Bedingfield | Pocketful of Sunshine | 13 | 40,000 | Gold [10] |
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | AC/DC | Black Ice | 1 | 400,000 | 5× Platinum |
2 | Jesse Cook | Frontiers | N/A | 50,000 | Gold [11] |
Music Canada is a non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 in Toronto to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, and distribute music in Canada. It also offers benefits to some of Canada's leading independent record labels and distributors. It was known as the Canadian Record Manufacturer's Association until 1972 and the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) until 2011.
A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artist's earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. As of 2007, the best-selling remix album of all time is Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997).
Arts & Crafts Productions is a music-focused media and artist services company that offers information as an independent record label, management firm, merchandiser, and publisher worldwide. It has earned 21 Juno Awards. Arts & Crafts has been called one of Canada's most important record labels.
American country music singer-songwriter Garth Brooks has released seventeen studio albums, two live albums, and fifty-one singles. He has sold estimated over 170 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists in history. According to RIAA, Brooks is the top-selling solo artist of all time with 157 million certified albums in the US. American Music Awards honored him the "Artist of the 90s Decade" and iHeartRadio Music Awards also honored him the "Artist of the Decade".
Hilary Duff: The Concert – The Girl Can Rock, commonly referred to as The Girl Can Rock, is the first live video album by American recording artist Hilary Duff, released on August 10, 2004, by Hollywood Records. It contains a full concert from Ventura Theatre, Ventura, California and an accompanying music video for her single "Come Clean". Some special features of the DVD include Duff's appearance on Ryan Seacrest's On Air television program and her getting her first surfing lesson. In addition, the DVD contains footage of Duff recording "Crash World" and an interview with Duff discussing her self-titled album. Duff's DVD won the DVDX Award for Best Overall DVD in the Music Program. The DVD was nominated for the home video VSDA Award. The album was also certified four times platinum in Canada by Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).
Rock Star is a television series produced by Mark Burnett, David Geffen, Lisa Hennessy, and Al Berman in which aspiring singers from around the world competed to become the lead singer of a featured group. It debuted on CBS on July 11, 2005, to mediocre ratings.
D12, an American hip-hop group, has released two studio albums and five singles. Their music has been released on record label Interscope Records, along with subsidiary Shady Records. D12 has earned three platinum certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In this discography, music videos and collaborations are included as well.
Wintersong is the sixth album and first Christmas album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, released in October 2006. It was produced by longtime collaborator Pierre Marchand and includes contributions from Jim Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies. The album also includes a collaboration with Jazz musician Diana Krall. In 2007, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. In 2015, all songs from Wintersong plus five more tracks were released as The Classic Christmas Album.
Last Gang Records is a record label formed by Canadian music industry lawyer Chris Taylor and concert promoter Donald K. Tarlton in the fall of 2003 at the Pop Montreal Music Festival. Last Gang was nominated as Independent Record Label of the Year at the Canadian Music Awards in 2006.
The discography of Brad Paisley, an American country music singer, consists of 12 studio albums, three compilation albums, and 46 singles. All but two of Paisley's singles have hit the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, with all but six reaching the top ten. He has 21 number ones, including a streak of ten consecutive, starting with the 2005–06 Dolly Parton duet "When I Get Where I'm Going". When "Waitin' on a Woman", reached number 1 in late 2008, Paisley set a new record for the most consecutive number ones (10) by any country artist since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990. This streak lasted until mid-2009's number 2 single "Welcome to the Future".
The 2008 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 30, 2008, at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. The prize was won by Caribou for his album Andorra.
This is a summary of the year 2007 in the Canadian music industry.
This is a summary of the year 2009 in the Canadian music industry.
The following is a list of notable events and releases that occurred in 2010 Canadian music.
This article shows the highest selling contestants from Canadian Idol and the highest selling American Idol albums. These sales are Canadian sales only.
This is a summary of the year 2011 in the Canadian music industry.
The Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA) is the organization that represents the interests of the music, video and video game industries in Belgium. It was founded in February 2008, when three organizations merged, namely IFPI Belgium, the local chapter of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represented the music industry, the Belgian Video Federation, which represented the video industry, and the Belgian Luxembourg Interactive Software Association, which represented the video game industry. BEA is listed as the local record industry association in Belgium by the IFPI.
This is a summary of the year 2014 in the Canadian music industry.
Loud is the stage name of Simon Cliche Trudeau, a Canadian rapper from Quebec.
Pas Chic Chic were a Canadian indie pop group, whose album Au Contraire was a longlisted nominee for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize. A side project led by Roger Tellier-Craig of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Fly Pan Am, the band's music was a psychedelic spin on francophone musical traditions such as yé-yé and chansonnier pop.