RPM was a Canadian music magazine that published the best-performing singles chart in Canada from 1964 to 2000. In 1976, thirty-three singles reached number one on the RPM chart. The first number one single was "That's the Way (I Like It)" by KC and the Sunshine Band which reached number one in December 1975, and the last was "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" from Scottish rock musician Rod Stewart. Twenty-one acts achieved their first number-one single in the chart in 1976: the Bay City Rollers, the Silver Convention, C. W. McCall, Neil Sedaka, Nazareth, THP Orchestra, Donna Summer, Gary Wright, Queen, The Sylvers, Kiss, Henry Gross, Sweeney Todd, Andrea True Connection, Eric Carmen (formerly of the Raspberries), Starland Vocal Band, Kiki Dee, Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band, Chicago, Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots, and Rod Stewart. Three acts, KC and the Sunshine Band, the Bay City Rollers and the Silver Convention had more than one number-one hit for 1976. Neil Sedaka charted his first number-one on the RPM chart with a slow version of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", whose original version reached number one in the CHUM Chart in 1962. Three Canadian acts, the THP Orchestra, Sweeney Todd (with Nick Gilder) and Gordon Lightfoot, had one number-one song each in the chart that year.
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The longest-running number-one single of the year, and also the best-performing single of the year, was Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)", which spent five weeks at number one. C. W. McCall's "Convoy" stayed at number one for four weeks, while Sweeney Todd's "Roxy Roller", Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots' "Disco Duck" had also stayed at number one for three weeks each.
