Canada Country was a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine. [1]
This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by airplay on 31 country music stations across the country as monitored by Nielsen BDS. [2] Songs are ranked by total plays. As with most other Billboard charts, the Canada Country chart features a rule for when a song enters recurrent rotation. A song is declared recurrent if it has been on the chart longer than 30 weeks and is lower than number 20 in rank. [3]
These are the Canadian number-one country singles of 2016, per the BDS Canada Country Airplay chart.
Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 7–10 days in advance.
| † | Indicates best charting country single of 2016. [4] |
| Issue date | Country Song | Artist | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2 | "Die a Happy Man" | Thomas Rhett | [5] |
| January 9 | [6] | ||
| January 16 | [7] | ||
| January 23 | [8] | ||
| January 30 | [9] | ||
| February 6 | "Home Alone Tonight" | Luke Bryan featuring Karen Fairchild | [10] |
| February 13 | [11] | ||
| February 20 | "Break on Me" | Keith Urban | [12] |
| February 27 | [13] | ||
| March 5 | [14] | ||
| March 12 | "Heartbeat" | Carrie Underwood | [15] |
| March 19 | [16] | ||
| March 26 | [17] | ||
| April 2 | "Drunk on Your Love" | Brett Eldredge | [18] |
| April 9 | "Confession" | Florida Georgia Line | [19] |
| April 16 | "Drunk on Your Love" | Brett Eldredge | [20] |
| April 23 | "Snapback" | Old Dominion | [21] |
| April 30 | "Think of You" | Chris Young featuring Cassadee Pope | [22] |
| May 7 | [23] | ||
| May 14 | "Somewhere on a Beach" | Dierks Bentley | [24] |
| May 21 | [25] | ||
| May 28 | "Humble and Kind" | Tim McGraw | [26] |
| June 4 | "T-Shirt" | Thomas Rhett | [27] |
| June 11 | "Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day" | Luke Bryan | [28] |
| June 18 | [29] | ||
| June 25 | "Wasted Time" | Keith Urban | [30] |
| July 2 | "Came Here to Forget" | Blake Shelton | [31] |
| July 9 | "H.O.L.Y." | Florida Georgia Line | [32] |
| July 16 | [33] | ||
| July 23 | [34] | ||
| July 30 | [35] | ||
| August 6 | "Record Year" † | Eric Church | [36] |
| August 13 | [37] | ||
| August 20 | [38] | ||
| August 27 | "Different for Girls" | Dierks Bentley featuring Elle King | [39] |
| September 3 | [40] | ||
| September 10 | [41] | ||
| September 17 | [42] | ||
| September 24 | [43] | ||
| October 1 | [44] | ||
| October 8 | "You Look Like I Need a Drink" | Justin Moore | [45] |
| October 15 | "Setting the World on Fire" | Kenny Chesney featuring Pink | [46] |
| October 22 | [47] | ||
| October 29 | "It Don't Hurt Like It Used To" | Billy Currington | [48] |
| November 5 | "Move" | Luke Bryan | [49] |
| November 12 | [50] | ||
| November 19 | "May We All" | Florida Georgia Line featuring Tim McGraw | [51] |
| November 26 | "Autograph" | Dallas Smith | [52] |
| December 3 | "May We All" | Florida Georgia Line featuring Tim McGraw | [53] |
| December 10 | "Blue Ain't Your Color" | Keith Urban | [54] |
| December 17 | [55] | ||
| December 24 | [56] | ||
| December 31 | "Dirty Laundry" | Carrie Underwood | [57] |
Broadcast Data Systems was a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs. The service, which is a unit of MRC Data, is a contributing factor to North American charts published by co-owned magazine Billboard, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Canadian Hot 100, when combined with sales and streaming data from Soundscan.
Pop Airplay is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, a subsidiary of the U.S.' leading marketing research company. Consumer researchers, Nielsen Audio, refers to the format as contemporary hit radio (CHR). The current number-one song on the chart is "Die With a Smile" by Bruno Mars & Lady Gaga.