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The lists are updated weekly through Nielsen Soundscan.
| Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position | Sales | Certification |
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| 1 | Yoan | Yoan | 1 | 90,000 [23] [24] [25] | Gold [26] |
| 2 | Mumford & Sons | Wilder Mind | 1 | 40,000 [27] | TBA |
| 3 | Drake | If You're Reading This It's Too Late | 1 | 37,000 [28] | TBA |
| 4 | Various Artists | Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 1 | 26,200 [28] [29] | Gold [30] |
| 5 | Kendrick Lamar | To Pimp a Butterfly | 1 | 21,000 [31] | TBA |
| 6 | Jean Leloup | À Paradis City | 1 | 21,000 [32] | Gold [33] |
| 7 | Madonna | Rebel Heart | 1 | 20,400 [23] [34] | TBA |
| 8 | Florence and the Machine | How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful | 1 | 19,000 [35] | TBA |
| 9 | Of Monsters and Men | Beneath the Skin | 1 | 16,000 [36] | TBA |
| 10 | Various Artists | La Voix III | 1 | 15,300 [37] | TBA |
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| 1 | Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth | "See You Again" | Furious 7: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 1 | 117,000 [27] [37] [38] [39] | 3× Platinum [40] |
| 2 | Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney | "FourFiveSeconds" | TBA | 3 | 34,000 [28] | TBA |
| 3 | Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar | "Bad Blood" | 1989 | 1 | 24,000 [41] | TBA |
| 4 | Mumford & Sons | "Believe" | Wilder Mind | 11 | 19,000 [42] | TBA |
| 5 | David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha and Afrojack | "Hey Mama" | Listen | 9 | TBA | Platinum [43] |
| 6 | Deorro featuring Chris Brown | "Five More Hours" | TBA | 57 | TBA | Platinum [44] |
| 7 | Maroon 5 | "Sugar" | V | 3 | TBA | Platinum [45] |
| 8 | Carly Rae Jepsen | "I Really Like You" | Emotion | 14 | TBA | Gold [46] |
| 9 | Ed Sheeran | "Photograph" | x | 38 | TBA | Gold [47] |
| 10 | Ellie Goulding | "Love Me like You Do" | Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 3 | TBA | Gold [48] |
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This is a summary of the year 2008 in the Canadian music industry.
Women was a Canadian indie rock band formed in Calgary in 2008. The group consisted of Patrick Flegel, Christopher Reimer, Matt Flegel and Mike Wallace. Their debut album Women was released on Chad VanGaalen's label Flemish Eye on July 8, 2008 in Canada and on Jagjaguwar in the United States on October 7, 2008. It was rumoured that the band broke up on October 29, 2010, after a fight on stage at a show at Lucky Bar in Victoria, although their management stated that they had merely cancelled the rest of their tour.
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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 2011 in the Canadian music industry.
This is a summary of the year 2012 in the Canadian music industry.
Lisa LeBlanc, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and banjoist, known for her enthusiastic "trash folk" performances. She has been noted for her "distinct" blend of folk, rock, and disco with both English and French language lyrics combined with chiac and her Acadian accent. Her accolades include two Félix Awards and an East Coast Music Award. She has also been nominated for three Juno Awards, the SOCAN Songwriting Prize, and shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize twice.
This is a summary of the year 2013 in the Canadian music industry.
English singer Charli XCX has released six studio albums, four mixtapes, three extended plays, one live album, one soundtrack album, one remix album, two DJ mixes, 48 singles, and 13 promotional singles. In 2007, XCX began recording her debut album on a loan granted by her parents. Titled 14, after her age at the time, it received only a restricted public release. Two singles, "!Franchesckaar!" and double A-side "Emelline" / "Art Bitch", were released in late 2008 under Orgy Music. In June 2012, Charli XCX released her first mixtape, titled Heartbreaks and Earthquakes, a one-track file consisting of eight songs. A second mixtape, titled Super Ultra, was released in November of the same year. Charli XCX's major-label debut studio album, True Romance, was released in April 2013, and peaked at number 85 on the UK Albums Chart. While failing to appear on any main album charts internationally, the album reached number five on the Heatseekers Albums chart in the United States and number 11 on the ARIA Hitseekers chart in Australia. The album spawned five singles—"Stay Away", "Nuclear Seasons", "You're the One", "You " and "What I Like". In 2012, Charli XCX was featured on Icona Pop's song "I Love It", which peaked at number one in the UK and reached the top 10 in various countries including the US, Canada, Ireland and Germany.
This is a summary of the year 2014 in the Canadian music industry.
Alvvays is a Canadian indie pop band formed in 2011, originating from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and subsequently based in Toronto, Ontario. It consists of Molly Rankin, Kerri MacLellan (keyboards), Alec O'Hanley (guitars), and Sheridan Riley (drums). Their self-titled debut studio album, released in 2014, topped the US college charts. Their second studio album, Antisocialites, was released on September 8, 2017. Their third studio album, Blue Rev, was released on October 7, 2022.
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The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2017 in music in Canada.
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The following musical events and releases that happened in 2021 in Canada.