Billboard's Top 100 Songs By Canadian Artists

[renegade_killerbee]

1. How You Remind Me - Nickelback
2. You're Still The One - Shania Twain
3. Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
4. Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado Featuring Timbaland
5. Bad Day - Daniel Powter
6. Theme From "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith
7. Informer - Snow
8. Nobody's Supposed To Be Here - Deborah Cox
9. The Power Of Love - Celine Dion
10. It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion
11. Complicated - Avril Lavigne
12. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
13. Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? - Bryan Adams
14. All For Love - Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting
15. I'm Your Angel - R. Kelly & Celine Dion
16. Little Darlin' - The Diamonds
17. Lonely Boy - Paul Anka
18. Moments To Remember - The Four Lads
19. Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
20. Photograph - Nickelback
21. Diana - Paul Anka
22. One Week - Barenaked Ladies
23. American Woman/No Sugar Tonight - The Guess Who
24. Put Your Head On My Shoulder - Paul Anka
25. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
26. Adia - Sara McLachlan
27. (You're) Having My Baby - Paul Anka
28. Ironic - Alanis Morrissette
29. You Needed Me - Anne Murray
30. Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
31. Heaven - Bryan Adams
32. Someday - Nickelback
33. Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
34. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
35. Hero - Chad Kroeger Featuring Josey Scott
36. Angel - Sarah McLachlan
37. I'm With You - Avril Lavigne
38. Far Away - Nickelback
39. Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
40. When I'm With You - Sheriff
41. Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
42. The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
43. Don't Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child
44. Standing On The Corner - The Four Lads
45. Put Your Hand In The Hand - Ocean
46. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
47. Insensitive - Jann Arden
48. No, Not Much - The Four Lads
49. Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams
50. Puppy Love - Paul Anka
51. Which Way You Goin', Billy? - The Poppy Family
52. Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
53. That's The Way It Is - Celine Dion
54. Hard To Get - Gisele MacKenzie
55. My True Love - Jack Scott
56. Steal My Sunshine - Len
57. Ringo - Lorne Greene
58. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
59. More Than Words Can Say - Alias
60. Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
61. You Learn / You Oughta Know
Alanis Morissette
62. Never Surrender - Corey Hart
63. If You Asked Me To - Celine Dion
64. Savin' Me - Nickelback
65. Last Song - Edward Bear
66. Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) - Glass Tiger
67. Turn Off The Light - Nelly Furtado
68. Heartbeat - It's A Lovebeat - DeFranco Family Featuring
Tony DeFranco
69. I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli
70. Wasting My Time - Default
71. Where Does My Heart Beat Now - Celine Dion
72. Building A Mystery - Sarah McLachlan
73. My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne
74. That Don't Impress Me Much - Shania Twain
75. From This Moment On - Shania Twain
76. Living Inside Myself - Gino Vannelli
77. Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
78. The Stroll - The Diamonds
79. Angels In The Sky - The Crew-Cuts
80. I Finally Found Someone - Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams
81. What In The World's Come Over You - Jack Scott
82. I'm Like A Bird - Nelly Furtado
83. Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
84. It's Time To Cry - Paul Anka
85. Goodbye Baby - Jack Scott
86. She's So High - Tal Bachman
87. Pinch Me - Barenaked Ladies
88. Times Of Your Life - Paul Anka
89. Run To You - Bryan Adams
90. Almost Paradise - Mike Reno & Ann Wilson
91. Beauty And The Beast - Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson
92. Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne
93. All By Myself - Celine Dion
94. Wildflower - Skylark
95. Someday - Glass Tiger
96. Stand Tall - Burton Cummings
97. Daydream Believer - Anne Murray
98. I Will Remember You (Live) - Sarah McLachlan
99. Do I Have To Say The Words? - Bryan Adams
100. Thought I'd Died And Gone To Heaven - Bryan Adams

*** KEVIN IN SOUTH TULSA ***

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[matt1980111]

Now this seems suspicious to me. 'Power of Love' higher than 'My Heart Will Go On'?

I never knew 'POL' was so much more successful. I do prefer it to 'MHWGO'.

 

[Ontariobear]

^^^ But the song became a hit in the US, we'd never heard of him before it came out.

Oh and BTW there is a technicality about Celine Dion being on the list. You see when she's done in Vegas she won't be allowed back across the border so she really won't be Canuckian anymore...

 

[starlight70]

Now this seems suspicious to me. 'Power of Love' higher than 'My Heart Will Go On'?

I never knew 'POL' was so much more successful. I do prefer it to 'MHWGO'.

No joke. If I am not mistaken My Heart Will Go On did not stay more than 2 weeks at the top, while POL did. I did not understand the company's strange singles sales control when My Heart Will Go On was released. It killed MHWGO chance of staying more weeks at the top.

Maybe so that it did not hurt the album sales??

I may be mistaken.

 

[hubbellgardner]

No Joni Mitchell ??!!??

 

[Soilwork]

I'm so ebmarrassed that there's so much shit on that list but at least it's not as bad as the 100 songs by women. THere's some gems on there although it's too bad that Joni Mitchell didn't make it, nor did Ian and Sylvia Tyson or Saga. Too bad how my favorite Anne Murray songs aren't there and I'm just ashamed that so much Celine Dion crap is on there.

I'm sure that if you did a list of Canadian songs from the Canadian charts it would be much different.

To me it's ironic that the best and most daring songs by some of those artists aren't on the list. Celine Dion's had some really cool stuff in French (like Je Danse dans ma tette) and Gino Vanelli had an album called "Black Cars" that was one of the coolest electonic dance albums ever.

Sad that Luba and Dalbello and Jane Siberry and The Payolas and The Box isn't on the list, nor is 54-40 or The Grapes of Wrath. Sad that the best and most beautifully haunting songs by Jann Arden like "I would die for you" and "Time for Mercy" and "Could I be your girl" were left off but that "Insensitive" schlock is on there.

Glad to see Jane Child. I wish Sloan was on there.

What I find telling is how bands like Tragically Hip that sell out stadiums in Canada have never had a hit in America. They're jsut too.. Canadian.

 

[Soilwork]

No kd lang, either.

And shoudln't "Got to be real" by Cheyl Lynn be on there? That song is a classic.

 

[matt1980111]

Cheryl Lynn is Canadian? Wow...

And they should have 'Constant Craving' on that list....that is classic!

 

[Ontariobear]

Cheryl Lynn holds the distinction of being the only performer on Chuck Barris' Gong Show to have a hit record. Billboard book lists has being born in L.A.

We grew up with a lot of great Canadian bands and solo singers who never made it big south of the border. And for the acts that made it, those aren't necessarily my favs.

Help Me was Joni's only US Top 10 Hit peaking at #7 which just isn't enough of a hit to make that list.

Why some of them never hit in the US will always be a mystery - was it timing, taste or just a poor distributiion deal with the US distributor?

 

[prettyboysing]

Nice to see Heart represented twice

 

[renegade_killerbee]

There should be no surprise at all that "The Power Of Love" finished much higher than "My Heart Will Go On."

"Power" spent four weeks at number one in March of 1994 and accumulated a total of 33 weeks in the Hot 100.

"Heart" only managed two weeks at the pole position, in March of 1998 and it's total chart run lasted a very brief 20 weeks.

Had "Heart" been released as a single during it's radio zenith (January) not only would the song have spent more weeks at number one, but gathered more than a measly 20 weeks. Her label didn't want the single to monopolize sales of her "Let's Talk About Love" or even more significantly, the "Titanic" soundtrack.

Maybe they were right. That album was No. 1 for 16 weeks and has so far, been certified 11X Platinum.

*** KEVIN IN SOUTH TULSA ***

http://www.myspace.com/iluvdaytimedramas

 

[Glafna]

There was a lot of repetition with the artists, especially Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams, and Nickleback. I'm surprised there weren't more Paul Anka songs on there, or Tragically Hip.

But remember, this is just a list of the top 100 songs from a board of Americans who probably couldn't care less.

 

[scrapple]

All together now...."...we had joy, we had fun, we had..."

 

[Soilwork]

What? No Carly Simon? Or K-Os?

These Billboard lists, officially suck ass, especially considering that dufus Snow is on there. Is Joni Mitchell Canadian? If she is, why the hell isn't she on there?

Seriously these lists suck ass.

Carly Simon isn't Canadian. She dated our prime minister, but she herself if American.

 

[Ontariobear]

Read the thread - Joni Mitchell was already explained.

Why is it that every time someone doesn't like a list and songs that they think should be on it aren't because despite their opinion the song simply wasn't a big enough hit that automatically the list sucks?

This isn't recess in fifth grade, or is it?

 

[Ontariobear]

I checked - Mummers' Dance peaked at #18 on Billboard as her only Top 40 appearance.

 

[JackFTwist]

No Joni Mitchell is enough to make the list stupid. But then there is no Neil Young.

 

[Soilwork]

This isn't recess in fifth grade, or is it?

welcome to JUB.

 

[Soilwork]

By the way, the new Joni Mitchell album "Shine" is one of the most beautiful and haunting records in years. If you don't have it.. buy it.. bring it home.. light a few candles and lay back.

Or do what I do.. go driving in the countryside with it playing. It's wonderful.

 

[wundersteve]

Constant Craving only peaked at #38, and is k.d. lang's only Top 40 hit. Criminal, really.

Anne Murray should have had far more songs on the list.

Jann Arden too, though again, Insensitive (one of her tracks I always skip) is her only Top 40 hit.

Would've also like to see songs like Lunatic Fringe by Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, and at least a couple of Bruce Cockburn's singles.

About the only good thing about that list is that at least it has representation from each decade although is still excessively dominated by Saline and Latrine.