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This is a summary of the year 2009 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 | Michael Bublé | Crazy Love | 1 | 320,000 | 4× Platinum [2] |
2 | The Canadian Tenors | The Perfect Gift | n/a | 240,000 | 3× Platinum [3] |
3 | Ginette Reno | Fais-Moi De La Tendresse | n/a | 209,000 [4] | n/a |
4 | Billy Talent | Billy Talent III | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
5 | Hedley | The Show Must Go | 6 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
6 | Johnny Reid | Dance with Me | 3 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum [5] |
7 | Justin Bieber | My World | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
8 | The Tragically Hip | We Are the Same | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum [6] |
9 | Blue Rodeo | The Things We Left Behind | 6 | 80,000 | Platinum [7] |
10 | Johnny Reid | Christmas | 7 | 80,000 | Platinum [8] |
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | The Black Eyed Peas | The E.N.D. | 1 | 400,000 | 5× Platinum |
2 | Eminem | Relapse | 1 | 195,000 | n/a |
3 | Green Day | 21st Century Breakdown | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
4 | Michael Jackson | This Is It | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
5 | Adam Lambert | For Your Entertainment | 8 | 80,000 | Platinum [9] |
6 | Bon Jovi | The Circle | 1 | 80,000 | Platinum |
7 | Bruce Springsteen | Working on a Dream | 1 | 80,000 [10] | Platinum |
8 | Carrie Underwood | Play On | 2 | 80,000 | Platinum |
9 | Daughtry | Leave This Town | 2 | 80,000 | Platinum [11] |
10 | Glee | Glee: The Music, Volume 1 | 4 | 80,000 | Platinum |
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | The Beatles | The Beatles Stereo Box Set | n/a | 800,000 | Diamond [12] |
2 | Susan Boyle | I Dreamed a Dream | 1 | 400,000 [13] | 5× Platinum [14] |
3 | Mumford & Sons | Sigh No More | 2 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
4 | Muse | The Resistance | 1 | 80,000 | Platinum [2] |
5 | Florence and the Machine | Lungs | 21 | 40,000 | Gold |
6 | Leona Lewis | Echo | 16 | 40,000 | Gold [15] |
7 | Lily Allen | It's Not Me, It's You | 1 | 40,000 | Gold [14] |
8 | Mika | The Boy Who Knew Too Much | 19 | 40,000 | Gold |
9 | Taio Cruz | Rokstarr | 3 | 40,000 | Gold [16] |
10 | The xx | xx | n/a | 40,000 | Gold [17] |
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | Andrea Bocelli | My Christmas | 2 | 264,000 [4] | 2× Platinum |
2 | David Guetta | One Love | 2 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum [2] |
3 | U2 | No Line on the Horizon | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum [18] |
4 | Rihanna | Rated R | 5 | 80,000 | Platinum |
5 | Rod Stewart | Soulbook | 3 | 80,000 | Platinum [15] |
6 | Bernard Adamus | Burn | TBA | 40,000 | Gold [19] |
7 | Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 19 | 40,000 | Gold |
8 | Tiësto | Kaleidoscope | 6 | 40,000 | Gold |
9 | Daniel O'Donnell | Hope and Praise | n/a | 5,000 | Gold [20] |
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.
Thankful is the debut studio album by American singer Kelly Clarkson, released in the United States by RCA Records on April 15, 2003. "Miss Independent" was its first single, followed by "Low" and "The Trouble with Love Is". Initially, the album had been scheduled to be released in November 2002, however, Clarkson's demanding schedule and difficulty finding tracks that suited her taste and image forced the album to be delayed several times. By the time the album was released, over six months had elapsed since "A Moment Like This" had reached number one.
219 Days is the debut album of Canadian Idol winner Kalan Porter. The album was released on November 23, 2004 through Sony Music Canada. The album title refers to the number of days from his first audition to the release of his debut CD. The album debuted at #4 on the Canadian Albums Chart and was certified double platinum by the CRIA months later with an excess of 200,000 copies.
Corb Lund is a Canadian country and western singer-songwriter from Taber, Alberta, Canada. He has released eleven albums, three of which are certified gold. Lund tours regularly in Canada, the United States and Australia, and has received several awards in Canada and abroad.
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).
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).
American singer Jessica Simpson has released seven studio albums, four compilation albums, three video albums, nineteen singles, and fifteen music videos. Her debut album, Sweet Kisses (1999), was released through Columbia Records, reached number 25 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart, and was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album sold 1.9 million copies in the US and produced three singles. Simpson's debut single, "I Wanna Love You Forever", reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2001, Simpson released her second studio effort, titled Irresistible, which failed to match the success of Sweet Kisses. Irresistible peaked at number 6 in the United States and has sold 755,000 copies. Her third studio album, In This Skin, was released in August 2003. Guided by the publicity of her reality TV show, Newlyweds, that album became the best-selling effort of her career, achieving a peak position of number 2 and triple platinum certification in the US. By 2009, In This Skin had sold 2.9 million copies in the US and produced four singles. In 2004, Simpson released her fourth studio and her first Christmas album, Rejoyce: The Christmas Album. It reached number 14 in the US and was certified gold by the RIAA. As of February 2009, Rejoyce has sold 669,000 copies in the US.
The English singer Natasha Bedingfield has released 4 studio albums, 21 singles, 25 music videos, and 1 video album.
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.
This is the complete discography of the Canadian rock band Sum 41. The band has seven studio albums, three live albums, one compilation album, five video albums, 31 music videos, two EPs, 23 singles, nine B-sides, nine promotional singles, and one demo album.
The American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas has released nine studio albums, two compilation albums, one extended play, forty singles, eight promotional singles, thirty-eight music videos, and two video albums. Interscope Records released the band's debut album, Behind the Front, in the United States in June 1998. Although the album received a four-star review from AllMusic, it charted low on the Billboard 200 in the United States and on the French Albums Chart, at numbers 129 and 149 respectively. The band's second album, Bridging the Gap, was released in 2000 and peaked at number 67 in the US and reached its highest position in New Zealand, at number 18.
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".
Big & Rich is an American country music duo founded by Big Kenny and John Rich. Signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2004, the duo has released six studio albums, five extended plays, two extended play/DVD combos, three compilation albums and 20 singles. Their 2004 debut, Horse of a Different Color, is also their highest-selling album, certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). 2005's Comin' to Your City is certified platinum by the RIAA, and 2007's Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace is certified gold by the same. Their first EP/DVD combo, Big & Rich's Super Galactic Fan Pak, is also certified platinum.
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American singer Adam Lambert has released five studio albums, one live album, five compilation albums, five extended plays, twenty-five singles, and thirteen music videos. As of January 2011, he had sold 1.2 million albums and 4.2 million singles worldwide.
This article shows the highest selling contestants from Canadian Idol and the highest selling American Idol albums. These sales are Canadian sales only.
The discography of 3OH!3, an American electropop group, contains six studio albums, four extended plays and 11 singles. They are best known for their single "Don't Trust Me" from their album Want, which reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. Their second single, a remix of "Starstrukk" featuring Katy Perry from Want, was a top ten hit in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, and Australia. They gained further recognition by featuring Kesha on the song "My First Kiss", which was made the lead single from their album Streets of Gold. The album later peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200.
The discography of Puddle of Mudd, an American alternative rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, formed in 1992 by Wes Scantlin. They released their first studio album in 1997; their major label debut, 2001's Come Clean, has sold over five million copies. They have released one independent and six studio albums, with their latest being Ubiquitous in September 2023. The band has sold over seven million albums.