Canada's Top 10: Canadian Idol #1 for 10th week.

[william]

ALBUMS: Sales.

LW TW ARTIST -- Title

01 01 SARAH MCLACHLAN -- Afterglow 4 weeks
06 02 B. PELLETIER/L'ORCH. SYM. DE MONTREAL -- Conc. De Noel
02 03 VARIOUS ARTISTS -- Much Dance 2004
03 04 JOSH GROBAN -- Closer
07 05 SHERYL CROW -- The Very Best Of
05 06 VARIOUS ARTISTS -- Big Shiny Tunes 8
09 07 R. STEWART -- As Time Goes By/Great Amer. Songbook II
11 08 HILARY DUFF -- Metamorphosis
12 09 NICKELBACK -- The Long Road
08 10 BLINK-182 -- Blink-182

Sales volume: 1,725,400 units.


SINGLES: Sales.

01 01 RYAN MALCOLM -- Something More 10 weeks
00 02 RADIOHEAD -- 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)
05 03 OUTKAST -- Hey Ya!/The Way You Move
02 04 P!NK -- Trouble
03 05 BRITNEY SPEARS/MADONNA -- Me Against The Music
06 06 BEYONCE/SEAN PAUL -- Baby Boy
08 07 AUDREY DE MONTIGNY -- Meme Les Anges
07 08 KELLY CLARKSON -- Low
10 09 HILARY DUFF -- So Yesterday
09 10 SIMPLY RED -- Sunrise

Sales volume: 12,900 units.


RADIOPLAY: Audience impressions.

01 01 3 DOORS DOWN -- Here Without You 5 weeks
03 02 SARAH MCLACHLAN -- Fallen
06 03 NO DOUBT -- It's My Life
05 04 SHERYL CROW -- The First Cut Is The Deepest
04 05 DIDO -- White Flag
02 07 NICKELBACK -- Someday
08 08 NELLY FURTADO -- Powerless (Say What You Want)
10 09 OUTKAST -- Hey Ya!
15 10 MICHELLE BRANCH -- Breathe


(c) 2003 Nielsen Entertainment.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

This week I bought Liz Phair's 'Why Can't I' and Christina Aguilera's 'The Voice Within' singles.

[william]

I'm a little disappointed that there is still a singles deficit when it comes to really popular radio hits. Only 2 of the top 10 have singles available. Apparently Dido's White Flag will be available so that's cool. I spoke to SoundScan Canada's GM about Puretracks.com and whether or not they would track digital download sales. She said they need more than one site before tracking sales. Too bad. I really don't see any other sites offering paid downloads popping up in the near future. I think the established retailers should start offering it. I thought I heard HMV was going to, but not sure. HMV/Amazon.ca, mymusic.ca, futureshop.com, archambault.ca, cdplus.com and all other online canadian record stores all need to get on board.