Canadian Singles Chart

Canadian Singles Chart

The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan [http://www.soundscan.com/about.html] . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by "Jam!" Canoe on Thursdays.

Originally, when the chart was incepted in 1996, there were a total of 200 positions (with the top 50 being published by "Jam!"). However, because of the reduced singles market in Canada, only the top 10 positions now appear on the SoundScan chart (SoundScan has a policy that at least 10 copies have to be sold in order to make its singles chart).

Since the early 1990s, single sales in Canada have decreased dramatically. By 2004, sales in Canada declined even further, because of the growing popularity of digital downloading of music. As a result, Canadian sales are not as substantial as they had been before in the 1990s and early 2000s, and singles remained on the chart for even lengthier periods of time.

Starting in 2005, Nielsen SoundScan compiled a Digital Tracks chart, based on download sales from Napster, puretracks, iTunes Canada, and Archambault. In 2006, SoundScan introduced a Digital Songs chart, combining all versions of each song and ranking them accordingly (different versions of each song, appear separately on the Tracks chart). The Digital Songs chart appears in "Billboard", and on Billboard.biz.

"Billboard" introduced a new singles chart, called the Canadian Hot 100, on June 7, 2007. It is based on digital download single sales data from Nielsen SoundScan and radio audience levels from Nielsen BDS.

ee also

* Canadian number one singles 2001 - present

References

* Lwin, Nanda; The Canadian Singles Chart Book; Music Data Canada; (August 1996) ISBN 1-896594-09-3
* Lwin, Nanda; Top 40 Hits: The Essential Chart Guide; Music Data Canada; 384 pp. (September 1999) ISBN 1-896594-13-1

External links

* [http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Chartlst.html Number one singles 1957 - 1986]
* [http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/SINGLES.html Canadian Top 50 Singles] — A source which includes albums, singles, and radio charts.


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