Updated Top 40 Canadian CHR chart

[william]

Nielsen BDS - recognized by the Canadian music industry and the CRTC as the official source for Canadian airplay charts and information.

Good news! Starting this week, my source has included bullet information (songs that have increased by 5 or more spins). I am still unable to get spin counts however.

CHR CHART: Based on spins. Currents only. 17 reporters.

LW TW ARTIST -- Title

01 01 BEYONCE/SEAN PAUL -- Baby Boy - 6 weeks
02 02* 3 DOORS DOWN -- Here Without You
03 03 NICKELBACK -- Someday
04 04* BRITNEY SPEARS/MADONNA -- Me Against The Music
06 05* BABY BASH/FRANKIE J -- Suga Suga
11 06* NO BOUBT -- It's My Life
05 07 CHRISTINA AGUILERA/LIL' KIM -- Can't Hold Us Down
08 08 SWOLLEN MEMBERS -- Watch This
20 09* THE BLACK EYED PEAS -- Shut Up
09 10 PINK -- Trouble
14 11* NELLY FURTADO -- Powerless (Say What You Want)
13 12* FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE -- Stacy's Mom
07 13 JOHN MAYER -- Bigger Than My Body
15 14* SARAH MCLACHLAN -- Fallen
10 15 BARENAKED LADIES -- Another Postcard (Chimps)
12 16 JACYNTHE -- Look Who's Crying Now
17 17* MATCHBOX TWENTY -- Bright Lights
22 18* DIDO -- White Flag
19 19* FEFE DOBSON -- Take Me Away
18 20* LUDACRIS/SHAWNNA -- Stand Up
37 21* OUTKAST -- Hey Ya!
16 22 KESHIA CHANTE -- Unpredictable
28 23* FINGER ELEVEN -- One Thing
30 24* OUTKAST/SLEEPY BROWN -- The Way You Move
21 25 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE -- Senorita
27 26 SIMPLE PLAN -- Perfect
32 27* MICHELLE BRANCH -- Breathe
26 28 50 CENT -- P.I.M.P.
31 29* X-QUISITE -- Bad Girl
29 30 SHERYL CROW -- The First Cut Is The Deepest
25 31 LIZ PHAIR -- Why Can't I
33 32* MAROON5 -- Harder To Breathe
00 33* CHINGY/LUDACRIS/SNOOP DOGG -- Holidae In
34 34 STACIE ORRICO -- (There's Gotta Me) More To Life
24 35 NELLY/P. DIDDY/MURPHY LEE -- Shake Ya Tailfeather
36 36 LIL JON/THE EAST SIDE BOYZ/YING YANG TWINS -- Get Low
23 37 SIMPLY RED -- Sunrise
39 38 HILARY DUFF -- So Yesterday
00 39* CHOCLAIR -- All I Need In This World Is You
38 40 THE BLACK EYED PEAS/J. TIMBERLAKE -- Where Is The Love?


MOST ADDED: From BDS and Non-BDS CHR reporters.

#1 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE -- I'm Lovin' It
#2 EVANESCENCE -- My Immortal
#3 THE BLACK EYED PEAS -- Shut Up
#4 JAY-Z -- Change Clothes
#5 OBIE TRICE/NATE DOGG -- The Set Up


GOING FOR ADDS: All formats.

PINK -- God Is A DJ
DOC WALKER -- Get Up
BILLY TALENT -- The Ex
TLC/LIL JON -- Come Get Some
ARTISTS FOR WAR CHILD -- Life
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE -- Cause = Time


(c) 2003 Nielsen BDS/Canadian Music Network

[canadaboy2003]

AAAHHH!! Come on Brit! Jump Up To #1 Lol!!
**Goes and Keeps On Praying for Brit To Make it to #1**
Lol..this chart's interesting...it's so different from the U.S. Kinda.. ;)

[capital_guy]

Go No Doubt!!!!

How far did Sunrise get, I wonder. I love that song.

[william]

Sunrise peaked @ #23 on last week's chart.

[HER MINAJesty]

lol, whoa @ Sunrise's drop

That song (the dance version/mix) was a huge hit on z103.5 during the latter part of the summer (I remember really starting to like it around mid-August, that is when they first started playing it) and it went on to be a huge hit on their station til about the end of September, I guess. Not incredibly long, but the way they overplayed that song, it sure felt like alot longer than 6 weeks or so.

I remember first thinking it was a remake of an old 80s song or something, just remixed, as are alot of dance songs these days.

Outkast making huge leaps on the chart, reflecting the US charts.

TLC and Lil Jon going for adds? I thought they scrapped this? Should be interesting to see if z103 or Flow add it, but I doubt it, on z103 anyway.

I'm Lovin It got the #1 most adds?? wtf? Isn't this song like 2 months old? Flow has been playing it for a while, never in high rotation, but I've yet to hear it on z103.

Obie Trice got the 5th most adds? Huh? lol that isn't a 'pop' song...z103 featured it on "Pump it or Dump it" this week...and Im surprised that z103 hasn't even put Jay-Z "Change Clothes" on their radar. I have yet to hear that song once on there. Im sure they will play it out eventually, but it's weird that they havent touched it yet. Come to think of it, I think it's been in a few of their mixshows when it first leaked to radio, but other than that I haven't heard it.


Cot damn! at "Shut Up" jumping from 20-9 :o

This song isn't THAT good, IMO. Today I heard a different version of it in Flow, same vocals and lyrics, just the beat seemed a bit different, more slowed down.

I've noticed z103 has started to play "Get Low" a bit more recently.

Did Missy "Pass that Dutch" completely drop off the chart?? lol, didn't it debut like last week?

wtf, CHUD is still at #7? lol...that song is sooo July


Thanks SOOO much for posting this info!

[capital_guy]

I remember first thinking it was a remake of an old 80s song or something, just remixed, as are alot of dance songs these days.

The song heavily samples I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) by Hall and Oats, early 80's.

CHUD took off a lot later in Canada than the U.S.

My question about No Doubt or Black Eyed Peas being the next no. 1 doesn't seem so stupid now, eh? LOL!!

[af18c]

william said:

20 09* THE BLACK EYED PEAS -- Shut Up

Is this song THAT big in Canada? It flopped in the US, peaking at # 30 I think

[capital_guy]

How often do you get an artist not just on the chart at the same time with more than one song (that *is* common nowadays, with all the collaborations), but with both songs climbing and competing against each other? I'm refering to Outkast, of course.

37 21* OUTKAST -- Hey Ya!

30 24* OUTKAST/SLEEPY BROWN -- The Way You Move

[william]

Obie Trice got the 5th most adds? Huh? lol that isn't a 'pop' song...

We must keep in mind that there are 3 urbans and 1 CHR/Rhythmic (94.5 The Beat, Vibe 98.5, Flow 93.5 and HOT 89.9) that report to the Nielsen BDS CHR chart. I don't know why this is, but that is BDS policy.
Canadian Music Network includes these stations as well as other add info from non-monitored urban/rhythmic stations (Wild 101, 95.7 The Beat) when compiling it's most added @ CHR list.

Perhaps the introduction of the new CHR/Rhythmic station (91.5 The Beat) in Kitchener Ontario slated to go on the air in January will force BDS to create a seperate Urban airplay chart. I'm not holding my breath however.

[BFMR]

af18c said:

Is this song THAT big in Canada? It flopped in the US, peaking at # 30 I think

it's getting quite a bit of airplay on canadian top 40 stations, which i find to be a good thing.

[HER MINAJesty]

Hmm I still don't know about "It's My Life" or "Shut Up" being the next #1, but I guess it's possible

They just don't strike me as #1 songs, Canada or not

and yes, that's true about this chart taking info from Flow and other Urban stations, which explains "The Set Up" getting adds, as well as "Shut Up" doing as well as it is, getting play on all the stations that report to this chart.

Last night I was trying to remember if I EVER heard "Shut Up" on CHR/Pop Kiss 98.5 WKSE in Buffalo, which we get here in Toronto. I dont think I ever heard it once on that station. It won their battle of the new songs a couple of times, but I dont even remember hearing it then

So yea, it is bigger here than it was in the US, I don't know why...but it was #1 on z103 for a good while there and as I said, Flow is starting to play it now.

Interesting about the new 91.5 The Beat in Kitchener...I wonder if we will be able to tap into that signal here in Toronto? The more radio stations, the better, lol
I believe they are owned by the same company as z103.5

I'm trying to listen to Wild 101.1 more, but the signal is somewhat choppy. It could be just my imagination, but maybe their signal got boosted because I was in the car earlier, and I could hear it crystal clear at some points, but maybe I was just in a good patch or something. Even on the stereo in my room, I was able to hear Wild 101 crystal clear...now, there is a bit of static, but for the most part, I can hear it fairly clearly.

They report as CHR/Rhythmic to Mediabase, they are CKEY-FM, so they don't report to anything on the Canadian side, right?

They do play Canadian music, though, like Choclair, Keshia Chante, Shawn Desman, etc.

my only complaint about Wild 101, other than it is hard to get good reception at times, is that some of the songs they play sound different than other stations..just as an example, its like the vocals on "Walked Outta Heaven" are sped up, it's weird, it sounds like a fake song or something...they do it with other songs, too, the vocals are sped up, it sounds weird

[HER MINAJesty]

Sorta related, I'm just taking a look at this week's MuchMusic Top 30 Countdown...

I see "So Yesterday" drops from #4 to #10 this week, I know it was as high as #2 a few weeks ago, but did it ever reach #1 for just one week? Or did Baby Boy keep it out?

OutKast "The Way You Move" moves up from #9 to #8 this week, while "Hey Ya!" is just making its debut this week, at #24.

The oldest song on the countdown is easily 50 Cent "PIMP", which drops from #16 to #22. LMAO...this video came out, in what, late June?? and the funniest thing is, did it even hit #1 on this countdown? I dont think it did

This countdown is notorious for having ancient videos remain on it for months.

It's just interesting to see how even the video countdown differs from the US charts.

Black Eyed Peas "Shut Up" is up 2 to #13 this week, Pink "Trouble" is up 1 to #6,
OBIE TRICE "Got Some Teeth" is up 2 to #3

...all of those songs were flops in the US

and Billy Talent "Try Honesty" is a pretty good song, but its still only #2 on this chart??

damn they really do move slow, dont they?

[BlahBlahBlah]

virgoluvsmusic said:

my only complaint about Wild 101, other than it is hard to get good reception at times, is that some of the songs they play sound different than other stations..just as an example, its like the vocals on "Walked Outta Heaven" are sped up, it's weird, it sounds like a fake song or something...they do it with other songs, too, the vocals are sped up, it sounds weird

It's not that, it's just that they speed songs up so they can air more songs within the period so they can air more ads too. It's kinda annoying, though I've heard worse.

The MuchMusic chart is such a fraud, how the hell can Obie Trice be #2 with a song that peaked months ago? Where were Christina Aguilera's past 2 videos? Very ridiculous. It's so stupid that they just added "Headstrong" to their playlist like a month ago, even later than when it crossed over to CHR/Pop.

[HER MINAJesty]

I agree totally about the Much countdown, I've had issues with that show for years, but I just gave up. I used to watch it religiously every Friday afternoon, back in like the 7th, 8th, 9th grade.

but then I just got fed up with it

CHUD didn't even make their countdown, but I believe Fighter did, right?

and they introduced that "Power Shift" one year ago, which is a "viewer voted" Top 30, I guess they finally gave in to all those complaint letters about the countdown, but still, they probably fix PowerShift also, just so it IS different from the Much Top 30.

The Voice Within was #29 or 28 on PowerShift, a few weeks ago.

That is true about Wild 101 speeding up songs to get more ads in, didn't think of that

Are u right in Toronto? Do u get Wild 101 clearly, or static, or horrible at times?

I wonder if we will be able to hear that new Kitchener station

[BlahBlahBlah]

virgoluvsmusic said:

CHUD didn't even make their countdown, but I believe Fighter did, right?

Yes it did. I was referring to "The Voice Within" though.

I only watch the first part of the countdown to see the new videos.

I was travelling in summer a year ago and went passed Belleville. They have a CHR/Pop station there that speeds up every single song. It's sounded so bad that I couldn't stand it at all.

PowerShift isn't that bad, but they play too many requests, which defeats the purpose. So many songs made it on that chart and not on their countdown. But since most people that like urban music wouldn't even watch MuchMusic (since there's BET, most of my friends watch that instead), the chart is skewed towards alternative. Also, since they still have to follow the ridiculous 50% CanCon rule, I wonder if they rigged the chart.

I live in Mississauga, the reception for Wild is pretty bad, it's slightly worse than the reception to WKSE.

[HER MINAJesty]

Yea, I find Much is very "Alternative" heavy, especially Canadian alternative rock.

I used to watch the Countdown just for the first 10 minutes, like you, just to catch the new entries. But I don't even bother with that anymore.

lol, about Wild and WKSE's reception in Sauga.

Yea, I just watch BET over Much 90% of the time anyways.

MuchMoreMusic's daily Top 10 can be interesting at times, and I think that actually might not be rigged, from one day to another its ridiculous. One day TVW was #3, the next day it was #9. And they were playing "Crazy in Love" as the #2 video as late as 2 weeks ago, I remember.

[capital_guy]

Yes, yes yes, the MM chart doesn't "mean" anything and is totally contrived. You really shouldn't watch it for the actual chart, but rather to see the actual videos. One of the reasons the videos move up so slowly is that the get a log jam of videos that the want to make no. 1, so, every week, it is a revolving door to get them all in. Videos could literally have runs like 29-27-23-22-16-13-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-7-15-off. It makes things worse for the log jams that it combines CHR, Rock and Urban.

[HER MINAJesty]

Yea...lol sometimes their videos are #1 one week, and then they drop to #10 or #11 the next week, I've seen it happen...I think they did that with Shawn Desman's "Shook" or Get Ready

I e-mailed them suggesting they do a Top 10 for each of the 3 formats (Pop, Urban and Rock), that seems like it would be a good idea.

Also, when MuchOnDemand premiered in February 2002, I got all excited thinking Much had finally jumped on the "Daily Top 10 video countdown" bandwagon, a la TRL and 106 & Park.

But all we got was something with "Vote-O-Matic's and a red-head stringbean named Jenn"

[BlahBlahBlah]

virgoluvsmusic said:

Also, when MuchOnDemand premiered in February 2002, I got all excited thinking Much had finally jumped on the "Daily Top 10 video countdown" bandwagon, a la TRL and 106 & Park.

But all we got was something with "Vote-O-Matic's and a red-head stringbean named Jenn"

Yeah I know and back then they had 4 Vote-O-Matics each day, now they only have 2, that sucks. What sucks even more is the fact MTV Select used to be a Daily Top 10 Countdown show, and now they have a weekly Top 10 which spreads out through their 5 weekday shows. Now that really sucks.

[HER MINAJesty]

Yea, and the new channel Toronto 1 plays MTV Select, I think weekdays at 4 or 5 PM, but I dont even know if its every day, or what kind of schedule, but yea I noticed its weekly, and they stretch out the countdown over 5 days, lol...its like, they end one show with the #7 video, its like wtf?