Lesser Known Canadian Songs From the 2010s (Vol. 1)

[alexandria2001]

Welcome!


This is a rankdown of Canadian Content songs that are mostly unknown outside of Canada. They recieved some level of play on Canadian CHR and/or Canada's version of MTV, MUCH Music (back when it played music videos, which it did so up to 2019,) but never had any mainstream success outside the country.

Some of these songs are from artists who are very lightly known in some circles or have a main credit on a moderately popular EDM song that never attracted mainstream attention to their other songs, but most of the songs are by artists you may have never heard of (if you were living outside of Canada, or you just "didn't look for them," during the 2010s.) As for the songs themselves, which is what this rankdown is really about anyway, you may have heard at least 90% of these songs if you had lived in Canada throughout the entirety of the 2010s. If you were living outside of Canada during that time, you most likely haven't heard any of them. This rankdown will introduce you to them and how hard they go.

Some of these songs only played on certain formats (The Grand Optimist, White Doves, and 11:11 were Alternative. Songs like Wake Me Up When It's Over, Stop Desire, and Mood, as far as I know, were only played on MUCH Music, in terms of media formats.) The rest are Pop/EDM Pop and played on Pop Radio AND MUCH Music.

Fefe Dobson - Ghost (2010)

Victoria Duffield - Shut Up and Dance (2011)

Shawn Hook - Relapse (2015)

Virginia To Vegas feat. Alyssa Reid - We Are Stars (2014)

Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine - Ain't Easy (2018)

Kristina Maria - Let's Play (2011)

Craig Smart - 123 (2012)

Serena Ryder - Electric Love (2017)

Shawn Desman - Night Like This (2010)

Trevor Guthrie - Soundwave (2014)

JRDN - Like Magic (2010)

Jocelyn Alice - Bound To You (2017)

SonReal - Can I Get A Witness (2016)

Jazz Cartier - Wake Me Up When It's Over (2015)

Jessie Reyez - Gatekeeper (2017)

Arkells - 11:11 (2015)

Classified - Pay Day (2014)

Bulow - Two Punks In Love (2019)

SonReal - Problems (2017)

Francesco Yates - Call (2015)

NEW CITY - Getting Closer (2018)

Tyler Shaw - With You (Frank Walker remix) (2019)

iSH feat. Stef Lang - Rollin' (2013)

City And Colour - The Grand Optimist (2011)

LIGHTS - Up We Go (2014)

Famba - Swear To God (2019)

DVBBS & CMC$ feat. Gia Koka - Not Going Home (2017)

Young Empires - White Doves (2012)

Felix Cartal - Get What You Give (2017)

Delaney Jane, Shaun Frank - Throwback (2019)

Raghav - Fire (2011)

Ria Mae - Ooh Love (2016)

Marianas Trench - Desperate Measures (2012)

Anjulie - You And I (2012)

Down With Webster - Chills (2014)

Alyssa Reid feat. Preme (formerly known as P. Reign) - Alone Again (2011)

Tegan And Sara - Goodbye, Goodbye (2013)

Lennon Stella - La Di Da (Aaron Redding remix) (2019)

Virginia To Vegas - Just Friends (2019)

Francesco Yates - Better To Be Loved (2015)

Walk Off the Earth - Red Hands (2013)

Kiesza - Giant In My Heart (2014)

Tegan And Sara - Stop Desire (2016)

Danny Fernandez feat. Belly - Automatic (2010)

K'NAAN - Hurt Me Tomorrow (2013)

Shawn Hook - Sound Of Your Heart (2015)

Serena Ryder - What I Wouldn't Do (2013)

dvsn - Mood (2017)

Trevor Guthrie - Summertime (2015)

Dan Talevski - Knock Me Off My Feet (2016)

- Rank the songs from most favourite to least favourite. 1-50.

- PM me your rankings. If you choose to re-order the songs as a ranking, number them. Or you can copy the list of songs as it is and type your rank number beside the respective songs. Or any way you'd like.

- If you don't want to be tagged, or if you aren't tagged and want to join, mention it in the thread.

- The years the songs peaked in are included to show how much of the decade is represented. I did it for fun. They don't have to be included if you're typing the songs out. If you copy/paste the list somewhere to do your ranking, I don't care if the years are included or not. They won't be included in the reveal.


DUE: TBA - Send in your rankings at any time before then

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[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

Sees Marianas Trench

Sees it's not either Pop 101 or Shut Up and Kiss Me

I'll do this, but that saddened me lol

[nathanalbright]

I'm definitely familiar with some of these artists, and I even heard one of the songs (I won't reveal which one rn) on AAA radio in the US. Discovering CanCon is definitely a quirky thing I like to do from time to time so this looks like a good one.

[nathanalbright]

When is this due, by the way?

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I might try to play this one. Depending on response rate, i may also attempt a sequel using songs from the 90s and/or 2000s. That’s my specialty!

[alexandria2001]

I'm assuming the early 2010s will end up having the most weight due to the fact these parts of the internet love that era so much (and I'm with you all on that.) We'll see though.


One thing I want to bring up is context. In case the correct context noticebly sways your rankings. Because I want this to be authentic. There are times the artist isn't clear enough or the song is sarcastic but not sarcastic enough to convince some.

For example, the chorus of Problems by SonReal is him repeating what his dad told him before he died. Don't worry, it's not another Scars To Your Beautiful. Although, he says personal things during the verses, so maybe it's not THAT similar to STYB at face value anyway.

Or I might be wrong and context doesn't affect rankings for the most part. Maybe it's more about whether the production is catchy?

[alexandria2001]

Jul 25, 2022 16:54:29 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

I might try to play this one. Depending on response rate, i may also attempt a sequel using songs from the 90s and/or 2000s. That’s my specialty!

If you do a 2000s version of this concept I have some songs to suggest for it. Especially since I have a practical rankdown list of them already.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Jul 26, 2022 20:09:11 GMT -5 alexandria2001 said:

Jul 25, 2022 16:54:29 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

I might try to play this one. Depending on response rate, i may also attempt a sequel using songs from the 90s and/or 2000s. That’s my specialty!

If you do a 2000s version of this concept I have some songs to suggest for it. Especially since I have a practical rankdown list of them already.

I probably shouldn’t steal your idea lol but I can certainly send you some suggestions when the time comes! We can PM

[alexandria2001]

Jul 26, 2022 21:08:59 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

Jul 26, 2022 20:09:11 GMT -5 alexandria2001 said:

If you do a 2000s version of this concept I have some songs to suggest for it. Especially since I have a practical rankdown list of them already.

I probably shouldn’t steal your idea lol but I can certainly send you some suggestions when the time comes! We can PM

Yeah send the suggestions in whenever. The next rankdown might be the lesser known 00s Can Con one or Vol. 2 of this one.

[alexandria2001]

Might push this back because I've been thinking a lot about 9/11 lately.

[alexandria2001]

TBA because damn

When I figure unrelated stuff out, I'll get back to this.