Canada's Top 10 of 2003: Sales & Radioplay

[william]

ALBUMS: Based on sales from JAN1 - DEC28.

01 NORAH JONES -- Come Away With Me
02 SHANIA TWAIN -- Up!
03 50 CENT -- Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
04 VARIOUS ARTISTS -- Star Academie
05 EVANESCENCE -- Fallen
06 AVRIL LAVIGNE -- Let Go
07 SARAH MCLACHLAN -- Afterglow
08 SEAN PAUL -- Dutty Rock
09 LINKIN PARK -- Meteora
10 CELINE DION -- One Heart

*SHANIA TWAIN -- Up! placed #1 in 2002.
*AVRIL LAVIGNE -- Let Go placed #4 in 2002.


SINGLES: Based on sales from JAN1 - DEC28.

01 CLAY AIKEN -- This Is The Night
02 RYAN MALCOLM -- Something More
03 RUBEN STUDDARD -- Flying Without Wings
04 50 CENT -- In Da Club
05 CELINE DION -- I Drove All Night
06 EVANESCENCE/PAUL MCCOY -- Bring Me To Life
07 BEYONCE/JAY-Z -- Crazy In Love
08 NICKELBACK -- Someday
09 HILARY DUFF -- So Yesterday
10 MADONNA -- American Life


RADIOPLAY: Based on audience impressions from JAN1 - DEC28.

01 NICKELBACK -- Someday
02 MATCHBOX TWENTY -- Unwell
03 UNCLE KRACKER/DOBIE GRAY -- Drift Away
04 SHANIA TWAIN -- Forever And For Always
05 EVANESCENCE/PAUL MCCOY -- Bring Me To Life
06 COLDPLAY -- Clocks
07 AVRIL LAVIGNE -- I'm With You
08 CHRISTINA AGUILERA -- Beautiful
09 SANTANA/CHAD KROEGER -- Why Don't You & I
10 SHANIA TWAIN -- Up!


(c) 2003 Nielsen Entertainment.

[FreakyFlyBry]

william said:

05 CELINE DION -- Bring Me To Life

???

[william]

Ooops!

Corrected.

[Matt4319]

william said:

RADIOPLAY: Based on audience impressions from JAN1 - DEC28.

01 NICKELBACK -- Someday

:o How?? The song only debuted in August.

[william]

As with the Billboard year-end charts, the audience data is only taken from songs that are charting. It doesn't include recurrent or gold airplay.

[jond7699]

Matt4319 said:

:o How?? The song only debuted in August.

???

[Matt4319]

jond7699 said:

???

What are you confused about?

[jond7699]

Matt4319 said:

What are you confused about?

I was confused about the same thing you were. But I guess he already answered your question. I still don't quite see how "Someday" became #1

[william]

Well, Nickelback was #1 for 12 weeks... it did also have higher #1 audience totals than any other #1 in 2003... and it was STILL charting as of December 28th.

[Arson]

There would also have been strong airplay from Rock, Alternative, Pop and Hot AC stations.

[william]

Ok... I got the official scoop on why Nickelback was #1...

BDS does not produce a year-end audience chart. CMN therefore obviously doesn't print one. The chart was compiled by a secondary source that ONLY took the weekly audience totals from the Top 20 of the top 100 chart that's printed in CMN. I've been told that the 2004's year end will expand to the top 40 titles' weekly totals. BDS Canada has no plans on ever doing a year-end audience chart.

With that information, a source gave me total audience totals for the year-end Top 10, which is kinda cool. Remember, these totals only reflect a top20 chart appearance, and not gold, recurrent or below top 20 airplay.

#1 NICKELBACK -- Someday (269 million)
#2 MATCHBOX TWENTY -- Unwell (259 million)
#3 UNCLE KRACKER... -- Drift Away (252 million)
#4 SHANIA TWAIN -- Forever... (244 million)
#5 EVANESCENCE -- Bring Me... (243 million)
#6 COLDPLAY -- Clocks (227 million)
#7 AVRIL LAVIGNE -- Im With... (225 million)
#8 C. AGUILERA -- Beautiful (214 million)
#9 SANTANA... -- Why Don't... (205 million)
#10 SHANIA TWAIN -- Up! (196 million)

My source also noted that the top audience levels were significantly lower than 2002 (also using the same top 20 chart methodology). I got the top 10 with those numbers too!!

#1 AVRIL LAVIGNE -- Complicated (414 million)
#2 SHERYL CROW -- Soak Up The Sun (383 million)
#3 CELINE DION -- A New Day Has Come (380 million)
#4 CHAD KROEGER/ JOSEY SCOTT -- Hero (313 million)
#5 FIVE FOR FIGHTING -- Superman... (283 million)
#6 THE CALLING -- Wherever You Will Go (274 million)
#7 VANESSA CARLTON -- A Thousand... (266 million)
#8 JIMMY EAT WORLD -- The Middle (243 million)
#9 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS -- Escape (225 million)
#10 OUR LADY PEACE -- Somewhere... (224.4 million)

It's weird to think that any of 2002's top 6 could have been 2003's number 1.

It would have been neat to compare 2004's year-end totals with the previous years. Oh well. I guess now that the 2nd party will be using the top 40 instead of 20, maybe we'll get a bit more of an accurate chart.

Let's lobby BDS for a true audience year-end chart! LOL.

[brady47]

This is a huge bump - but does anyone know where I can get top 10 airplay data for Canadian charts for the 2000s?