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This is a summary of the year 2011 in the Canadian music industry.
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way | 1 | 246,800 [43] [44] | 3× Platinum [45] |
2 | The Black Keys | El Camino | 3 | 240,000 | 3× Platinum [46] |
3 | LMFAO | Sorry for Party Rocking | 2 | 176,000 [47] | 2× Platinum [48] |
4 | Bad Meets Evil | Hell: The Sequel | 1 | 88,950 | TBA |
5 | Bob Seger | Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets | TBA | 80,000 | Platinum [49] |
6 | Britney Spears | Femme Fatale | 1 | 80,000 | Platinum [50] |
7 | Foo Fighters | Wasting Light | 1 | 80,000 | Platinum [51] |
8 | Foster the People | Torches | 7 | 80,000 | Platinum [52] |
9 | Jay-Z and Kanye West | Watch the Throne | 1 | 80,000 | Platinum [53] |
10 | Jennifer Lopez | Love? | 2 | 80,000 | Platinum [54] |
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | Adele | 21 | 1 | 1,270,000 [55] | Diamond [56] |
2 | Coldplay | Mylo Xyloto | 1 | 240,000 | 3× Platinum [57] |
3 | Pink Floyd | Discovery | TBA | 160,000 | 2× Platinum |
4 | Adele | Live at the Royal Albert Hall | TBA | 100,000 | Diamond [58] |
5 | Florence and the Machine | Ceremonials | 4 | 40,000 | Gold |
6 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs | 5 | 40,000 | Gold |
7 | Susan Boyle | Someone to Watch Over Me | 6 | 40,000 | Gold [59] |
8 | George Harrison | George Harrison: Living in the Material World | TBA | 20,000 | 2× Platinum [60] |
9 | Jeff Beck | Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) | TBA | 10,000 | Platinum [61] |
10 | Amy Winehouse | Lioness: Hidden Treasures | 5 | TBA | TBA |
Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | David Guetta | Nothing but the Beat | 2 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum [62] |
2 | Il Divo | Wicked Game | 11 | 40,000 | Gold [63] |
3 | Rihanna | Talk That Talk | 3 | 30,000 | TBA |
4 | Various Artists | Songs for Japan | 3 | 8,000 | TBA |
5 | Seether | Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray | 3 | 5,000 [64] | TBA |
6 | The Script | Science & Faith | 6 | TBA | TBA |
7 | Tiësto | Club Life: Volume One Las Vegas | 7 | TBA | TBA |
8 | Andrea Bocelli | Concerto: One Night in Central Park | 16 | TBA | TBA |
9 | Chickenfoot | Chickenfoot III | 19 | TBA | TBA |
10 | Lykke Li | Wounded Rhymes | 19 | TBA | TBA |
Rank | Artist | Song | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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1 | Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera | "Moves like Jagger" | Hands All Over | 1 | 640,000 | 8× Platinum [65] |
2 | Gotye featuring Kimbra | "Somebody That I Used to Know" | Making Mirrors | 1 | 639,000 [66] | TBA |
3 | Adele | "Someone like You" | 21 | 2 | 560,000 | 7× Platinum [67] |
4 | fun. featuring Janelle Monáe | "We Are Young" | Some Nights | 1 | 560,000 | 7× Platinum [68] |
5 | Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer | "Give Me Everything" | Planet Pit | 1 | 560,000 | 7× Platinum [69] |
6 | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | "Can't Hold Us" | The Heist | 2 | 554,000 [66] | 4× Platinum [70] |
7 | Awolnation | "Sail" | Megalithic Symphony | 48 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum [71] |
8 | LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock | "Party Rock Anthem" | Sorry for Party Rocking | 1 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum |
9 | Adele | "Set Fire to the Rain" | 21 | 2 | 400,000 | 5× Platinum [72] |
10 | Flo Rida | "Good Feeling" | Wild Ones | 2 | 400,000 | 5× Platinum [73] |
The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band. Active throughout the 1990s and up until 2005, the band re-formed in 2011. The Tea Party released eight albums on EMI Music Canada, selling over three million records worldwide, including four double-platinum awards, one platinum and four gold albums in Canada. Between 1996 and 2016, The Tea Party was the 35th best-selling Canadian artist in Canada.
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format.
Jason Drew Harrow, better known by his stage name Kardinal Offishall, is a Canadian rapper and record producer. Often credited as Canada's "hip hop ambassador", he has been regarded as one of the country's most prominent hip hop producers during the 2000s and is distinctive for his reggae and dancehall-influenced style of hip hop.
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English singer-songwriter Adele has released four studio albums, one video album, two extended plays, 17 singles and eleven music videos. Adele has sold over 72 million in pure album sales and over 100 million in album equivalent units worldwide over four studio albums and one video album as of December 2021. She was named the best-selling album artist of the 2010s decade in the US and worldwide. She has also sold over 100 million in single sales with total sales records over 170 million as of December 2021. She also became the best-selling female artist of the 21st century in the UK. Her album 21 became the best-selling album of the 21st century.
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The following is a list of notable events and releases that occurred in 2010 Canadian music.
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This is a summary of the year 2012 in the Canadian music industry.
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This is a summary of the year 2013 in the Canadian music industry.
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