Canadian Singles Chart

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Canadian Singles Chart

The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan is an information system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett that tracks sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada....
. The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam!
Jam!

Jam! is a Canada website, which covers entertainment news. It is part of the CANOE online portal, owned and operated by Quebecor through its Sun Media division....
Canoe

Canadian Online Explorer

Canadian Online Explorer is a bilingual online news and information site from Canada.A subsidiary of Quebecor Media, Canoe.ca is a leading local and national interactive media provider of news, entertainment and services, helping to inform and connect Canadians....
on Thursdays.

Originally, when the chart was incepted in 1996

1996 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996....
, there were a total of 200 positions (with the top 50 being published by Jam!).

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The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan

Canadian Online Explorer

1996 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 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, and most songs were not available as commercial singles. As a result, the chart rarely reflected the listening habits of Canadians. In perhaps the most notorious example, Elton John

Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
's charity single Candle in the Wind '97/Something About the Way You Look Tonight

Something About the Way You Look Tonight

"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" is a song by Elton John, released as the first single from The Big Picture . The single was released as a double A-side single with "Candle in the Wind 1997"....
stayed in the top twenty for three years. 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

2005 in music

Events*In the course of the year 2005, 12 rock albums reached the number 1 spot in America. This was the first time even ten albums have reached the top spot since 1996....
, Nielsen SoundScan compiled a Digital Tracks chart, based on download sales from Napster

Napster

Napster was an online music Peer-to-peer file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning while he was attending Northeastern University in Boston and operating between June 1999 and July 2001....
, puretracks

Puretracks

Puretracks is a Canada online music store, which launched officially on October 14, 2003. Owned by Moontaxi Inc., the service currently offers over 1,300,000 songs mainly from Canada music distributors and others, as well....
, iTunes Canada

ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online shopping digital media store operated by Apple Inc. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, it proved the viability of online music store and is now the number-one music vendor in the United States....
, and Archambault

Archambault

Archambault, a Quebecor Media company, is the largest music retailer in the province of Quebec, Canada, as well as a major retailer of books, DVDs, periodicals, musical instruments, sheet music, games, toys and gift ideas....
. 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

Canadian Hot 100

The Canadian Hot 100 is a music Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard which ranks songs in Canada. The chart premiered in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007....
, on June 7, 2007. It is based on digital download single sales data from Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen SoundScan

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections....
.

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— A source which includes albums, singles, and radio charts.

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