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The Nielsen Company and Billboard’s 2009 Canadian Industry Report
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Canadian Album Sales Down 2.2% in 2009
Digital Track and Digital Album Sales Reach New Highs
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen SoundScan Canada, the entertainment industry’s data information system that tracks unit point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product, and Nielsen BDS, the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service - which power the Billboard charts - have announced their 2009 Canadian calendar year sales and airplay monitoring data, for the 52-week period January 5, 2009 through January 3, 2010.
TOP SELLING ALBUMS & ARTISTS, BASED ON NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN DATA
*For the 2009 Calendar Year*
2009 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS
(from 12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 I Dreamed A Dream / Susan Boyle - 319,000
2 Fame / Lady Gaga - 315,000
3 E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) / Black Eyed Peas - 302,000
4 Crazy Love / Michael Buble - 290,000
5 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 242,000
6 My Christmas / Andrea Bocelli - 228,000
7 Fais-Moi De La Tendresse / Ginette Reno - 209,000
8 Only By the Night / Kings Of Leon - 204,000
9 Dark Horse / Nickelback - 199,000
10 Relapse / Eminem - 195,000
2009 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(based on Album sales from 12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 Michael Jackson - 651,000
2 Michael Buble - 414,000
3 Lady Gaga - 390,000
4 Beatles - 347,000
5 Susan Boyle - 319,000
6 Black Eyed Peas - 316,000
7 Johnny Reid - 297,000
8 Taylor Swift - 288,000
9 Kings Of Leon - 266,000
10 Andrea Bocelli - 264,000
2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL TRACKS
(12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 342,000
2 Right Round / Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - 260,000
3 Boom Boom Pow / Black Eyed Peas - 251,000
4 Fire Burning / Sean Kingston - 201,000
5 Tik Tok / Ke$ha - 190,000
6 Poker Face / Lady Gaga - 188,000
7 Sexy Chick / David Guetta feat. Akon - 178,000
8 Bad Romance / Lady Gaga - 158,000
9 I Know You Want Me / Pitbull - 154,000
10 Party In The U.S.A. / Miley Cyrus - 153,000
2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL SONGS
(combines all versions of the same Song: 12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 344,000
2 Right Round / Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - 263,000
3 Boom Boom Pow / Black Eyed Peas - 261,000
4 Poker Face / Lady Gaga - 206,000
5 Sexy Chick / David Guetta feat. Akon - 202,000
6 Fire Burning / Sean Kingston - 201,000
7 Tik Tok / Ke$ha - 190,000
8 I Know You Want Me / Pitbull - 182,000
9 Bad Romance / Lady Gaga - 160,000
10 Party In The U.S.A. / Miley Cyrus - 153,000
2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS
(12/29/08 – 1/3/2010)
1 Only By The Night / Kings Of Leon - 33,400
2 E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) / Black Eyed Peas - 28,400
3 Fame / Lady Gaga - 25,800
4 No Line On the Horizon / U2 - 22,200
5 Soundtrack / Twilight - 21,600
6 Fantasies / Metric - 20,900
7 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 19,800
8 Number Ones / Michael Jackson - 19,300
9 Dark Horse / Nickelback - 17,000
10 Relapse / Eminem - 15,700
2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS
(based on digital track sales from 12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 Black Eyed Peas - 856,000
2 Lady Gaga - 845,000
3 Taylor Swift - 569,000
4 Flo Rida - 478,000
5 Michael Jackson - 464,000
6 Britney Spears - 459,000
7 Beyonce - 456,000
8 Miley Cyrus - 416,000
9 Nickelback - 415,000
10 Eminem - 333,000
TOP TEN ALBUMS DURING 2009 HOLIDAY SEASON
(based on album sales from 11/9/2009 - 12/27/2009)
1 I Dreamed A Dream / Susan Boyle - 306,000
2 My Christmas / Andrea Bocelli - 221,000
3 Crazy Love / Michael Buble - 150,000
4 Vox Pop / Landry Maxime - 131,000
5 Fame / Lady Gaga - 104,000
6 My World / Justin Bieber - 103,000
7 Muchdance 2010/Danceplus 2010 / Various - 102,000
8 Michael Jackson’s This Is It / Michael Jackson - 89,000
9 Silence / Fred Pellerin - 84,000
10 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 84,000
TOP TEN DIGITAL SONGS DURING HOLIDAY SEASON
(based on digital song sales from 11/9/2009 - 12/27/2009)
1 Tik Tok / Ke$ha - 117,000
2 Bad Romance / Lady Gaga - 116,000
3 Empire State of Mind / Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys - 80,000
4 Fireflies / Owl City - 74,000
5 Sexy Chick / David Guetta feat. Akon - 70,000
6 Meet Me Halfway / Black Eyed Peas - 61,000
7 Replay / I Yaz - 59,000
8 Whatcha Say / Jason Derulo - 55,000
9 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 44,000
10 3 / Britney Spears - 44,000
TOP TEN PHYSICAL ALBUMS
(based on CD, Cassette and LP album sales from 11/9/2009 - 12/27/2009)
1 I Dreamed A Dream / Susan Boyle - 313,000
2 Fame / Lady Gaga - 289,000
3 Crazy Love / Michael Buble - 276,000
4 E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) / Black Eyed Peas - 273,000
5 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 223,000
6 My Christmas / Andrea Bocelli - 222,000
7 Fais-Moi De La Tendresse / Ginette Reno - 207,000
8 Dark Horse / Nickelback - 182,000
9 Relapse / Eminem - 180,000
10 Movie Soundtrack / Hannah Montana Movie - 178,000
2009 Canadian Year-End Factoids
Total Album sales declined 2.2% compared to 2008, continuing a trend of declining music sales in Canada.
Increased digital growth in 2009 did not offset the decline in physical sales.
There were 9 million album sales during the holiday season (11/9 – 12/27), down 3.2% compared to 2008.
Album sales during the holiday season accounted for more than 25% of the total album sales for the year (which is consistent with a year ago).
47% of all albums purchased were at a Mass Merchant/Non Traditional outlets compared to 42% in 2008, 37% in 2007 and 34% in 2006.
The increase in the Mass Merchant/Non-Traditional strata is coming directly from the year-over-year increase in digital album sales.
Digital album sales accounted for 14% of total album sales for the year vs. 9% in 2008.
Retail (Chain/Indy) music stores accounted for 53% of all album sales, compared to 58% in 2008, 63% in 2007 and 66% in 2006.
Digital Factoids
More than 56 million digital tracks were purchased in 2009; an increase of nearly 40% over 2008 and a new record for track sales in a year.
The top 200 digital songs accounted for 23% of all song purchases in 2009; 12.9 million sales compared to 8.2 million in 2008.
Digital album sales increased nearly 42% compared to 2008 with sales of 4.8 million sales compared to 3.4 million in 2008.
The top 100 digital albums accounted for nearly 20% of all digital album sales in 2009.
The digital share of total album sales in Canada was 13.6% in 2009, compared with 20.4% in the U.S.
For week ending December 27th of 2009 the following digital sales records were broken:
Digital track sales set a new weekly high with sales surpassing the 2 million sales barrier for the first time with nearly 2.1 million digital track downloads. The previous weekly sales record was set during the final week of 2008 with 1.8 million sales.
Digital album sales this week broke the 150,000 mark for the first time with album sales of 173,000; breaking the previous record of 142,000 digital album sales (12/28/08).
Ke$ha’s Tik Tok set a new weekly sales record with 36,000 sales downloads; this was the second digital song to break 30,000 downloads for one week. The previous record was set earlier in the year (week ending 2/15/09) by Flo Rida’s Right Round which sold 34,000 downloads.
The top 100 digital songs for the week posted an all-time high with 586,000 sales; breaking the previous record of 457,000 during the last week of 2008.
Best Seller Factoids
Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream which was released just six weeks left in the year, is the biggest selling album of the year with 319,000 sales; edging Lady Gaga’s Fame (315,000).
After missing the top 10 a year ago, Michael Buble makes it back into the top 10 albums of the year with Crazy Love as the fourth best selling album of the year; 290,000 sales.
Michael Jackson is the biggest selling artist with album sales of 651,000 in 2009.
Prior to 2009, there had been just over 700,000 Michael Jackson albums purchased over the past 13 years in Canada.
Note that the top 4 selling artists for the year in 2008 were all groups. In 2009, 4 out of the top 5 best selling artists were solo artists.
The Beatles came in as the #4 overall artist in 2009 but the Beatles were the biggest selling group for 2009.
Black Eyed Peas was the biggest selling digital artist with digital track sales surpassing 855,000 in 2009.
(Note that 5 out of the top 10 biggest selling digital artists in 2009 are female solo artists.)
Two native Canadian artists continue to hold the top two spots as the best selling artists in Canada during the Nielsen SoundScan era: Celine Dion (7.1 million albums sold) and Shania Twain (4.2 million albums sold).
These same two artists continue to have the biggest selling albums for Canada in the Nielsen SoundScan era; Shania Twain’s Come On Over album has sold 1.9 million units and Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk about Love album with 1.5 million sales.
The biggest selling digital artist during the Nielsen SoundScan era is Rihanna with 1,183,000 downloads. Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga are right on their heels with download sales of 1,178,000 and1,160,000 respectively.
The biggest selling digital song during the Nielsen SoundScan era is “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas with 344,000 downloads. Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” and “Just Dance” come in at #2 and #3 with sales of 318,000 and 287,000 respectively.
Coldplay’s Viva La Vida continues to be the biggest selling digital album in the Nielsen SoundScan era with more than 60,000 downloads.
MOST PLAYED TITLES AND ARTISTS, BASED ON NIELSEN BDS DATA
*For the 2009 Calendar Year*
2009 Top 10 Most Played Songs
(based on airplay from 1/1/2009 to 12/31/09)
1 You Belong With Me / Taylor Swift - 51,600
2 Love Story / Taylor Swift - 49,800
3 Use Somebody / Kings Of Leon - 49,600
4 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 42,200
5 Africa / Karl Wolf feat. Culture* - 40,800
6 I’m Yours / Jason Mraz - 38,700
7 Beautiful U R / Deborah Cox* - 36,300
8 If Today Was Your Last Day / Nickelback* - 35,900
9 Please Don’t Leave Me / Pink - 35,900
10 Right Round / Flo Rida - 35,800
2009 Top 10 Airplay Artists
(based on airplay from 1/1/2009 to 12/31/09)
1 Nickelback* - 150,000
2 Taylor Swift - 144,000
3 Lady Gaga - 108,000
4 Beyonce - 105,000
5 Pink - 100,000
6 Black Eyed Peas - 98,000
7 Kelly Clarkson - 96,000
8 Keith Urban - 86,000
9 Britney Spears - 83,000
10 Katy Perry - 82,000
2009 Top 10 Music Video Airplay
(based on airplay from 1/1/2009 to 12/31/09)
1 Gotta Be Somebody / Nickelback* - 2,500
2 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 2,300
3 Rusted from The Rain / Billy Talent* - 2,200
4 Anybody Listening / Classified* - 2,200
5 Cross My Heart / Marianas Trench* - 2,100
6 Devil On My Shoulder / Billy Talent* - 2,100
7 Halo / Beyonce - 2,100
8 Young Cardinals / AlexisOnFire* - 2,000
9 Right Round / Flo Rida - 2,000
10 Sexy Chick / David Guetta feat. Akon - 1,900
* = meets Canadian Content Criteria
2009 Top 10 Holiday Songs Airplay
(based on airplay from 11/1/2009 – 12/27/2009)
1 All I Want For Christmas Is… /Mariah Carey - 2,300
2 Do They Know It’s Christmas? / Band Aid - 2,200
3 Feliz Navidad / Jose Feliciano - 2,100
4 Happy X-Mas (War is Over) / John Lennon - 1,900
5 Last Christmas / Wham! - 1,800
6 Wonderful Christmas Time / Paul McCartney - 1,800
7 Rockin’ Around the Christmas… / Brenda Lee - 1,700
8 A Holly Jolly Christmas / Burl Ives - 1,600
9 Jingle Bell Rock / Bobby Helms - 1,500
10 Step Into Christmas / Elton John - 1,500
TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA
BEST SELLING ALBUMS
(from 1995 - 1/3/2010)
1 Come On Over / Shania Twain - 1,926,000
2 Let’s Talk About Love / Celine Dion - 1,490,000
3 Big Shiny Tunes 2 / Various Artists - 1,233,000
4 Romanza / Andrea Bocelli - 1,123,000
5 Beatles 1 / Beatles - 1,103,000
6 Up! / Shania Twain - 1,092,000
7 Aquarium / Aqua - 1,086,000
8 Surfacing / Sarah McLachlan - 1,076,000
9 Millennium / Backstreet Boys - 1,073,000
10 Backstreet’s Back / Backstreet Boys - 1,048,000
BEST SELLING ARTISTS
(from 1995 - 1/3/2010)
1 Celine Dion - 7,115,000
2 Shania Twain - 4,245,000
3 Backstreet Boys - 4,128,000
4 U2 - 3,641,000
5 Beatles - 3,263,000
6 Sarah McLachlan - 3,193,000
7 Eminem - 3,171,000
8 Tragically Hip - 3,056,000
9 Andrea Bocelli - 3,034,000
10 Diana Krall - 2,820,000
BEST SELLING DIGITAL SONGS
(2/13/2005 – 1/3/2010)
1 I Gotta Feeling[/u] / Black Eyed Peas - 344,000
2 Poker Face / Lady Gaga - 318,000
3 Just Dance / Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis - 287,000
4 Right Round / Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - 263,000
5 Boom Boom Pow / Black Eyed Peas - 261,000
6 Hot N Cold / Katy Perry - 245,000
7 Low / Flo Rida - 226,000
8 I Kissed A Girl / Katy Perry - 211,000
9 Apologize / Timbaland feat. One Republic - 207,000
10 Disturbia / Rihanna - 206,000
BEST SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS
(2/13/2005 – 1/3/2010)
1 Viva La Vida / Coldplay - 60,300
2 Only By The Night / Kings Of Leon - 44,600
3 Fame / Lady Gaga - 34,000
4 Soundtrack / Twilight - 30,700
5 Reminder / Feist - 29,200
6 E.N.D.(Energy Never Dies) / Black Eyed Peas - 28,400
7 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 28,100
8 Dark Horse / Nickelback - 26,100
9 Number Ones / Michael Jackson - 22,600
10 Back To Black / Amy Winehouse - 22,600
BEST SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS
(based on digital track sales from 2/13/2005 - 1/3/2010)
1 Rihanna - 1,183,000
2 Black Eyed Peas - 1,178,000
3 Lady Gaga - 1,160,000
4 Britney Spears - 959,000
5 Nickelback - 949,000
6 Kanye West - 805,000
7 Beyonce - 793,000
8 Taylor Swift - 790,000
9 Flo Rida - 771,000
10 Madonna - 766,000
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Canadian Album Sales Down 2.2% in 2009
Digital Track and Digital Album Sales Reach New Highs
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen SoundScan Canada, the entertainment industry’s data information system that tracks unit point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product, and Nielsen BDS, the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service - which power the Billboard charts - have announced their 2009 Canadian calendar year sales and airplay monitoring data, for the 52-week period January 5, 2009 through January 3, 2010.
TOP SELLING ALBUMS & ARTISTS, BASED ON NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN DATA
*For the 2009 Calendar Year*
2009 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS
(from 12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 I Dreamed A Dream / Susan Boyle - 319,000
2 Fame / Lady Gaga - 315,000
3 E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) / Black Eyed Peas - 302,000
4 Crazy Love / Michael Buble - 290,000
5 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 242,000
6 My Christmas / Andrea Bocelli - 228,000
7 Fais-Moi De La Tendresse / Ginette Reno - 209,000
8 Only By the Night / Kings Of Leon - 204,000
9 Dark Horse / Nickelback - 199,000
10 Relapse / Eminem - 195,000
2009 TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS
(based on Album sales from 12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 Michael Jackson - 651,000
2 Michael Buble - 414,000
3 Lady Gaga - 390,000
4 Beatles - 347,000
5 Susan Boyle - 319,000
6 Black Eyed Peas - 316,000
7 Johnny Reid - 297,000
8 Taylor Swift - 288,000
9 Kings Of Leon - 266,000
10 Andrea Bocelli - 264,000
2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL TRACKS
(12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 342,000
2 Right Round / Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - 260,000
3 Boom Boom Pow / Black Eyed Peas - 251,000
4 Fire Burning / Sean Kingston - 201,000
5 Tik Tok / Ke$ha - 190,000
6 Poker Face / Lady Gaga - 188,000
7 Sexy Chick / David Guetta feat. Akon - 178,000
8 Bad Romance / Lady Gaga - 158,000
9 I Know You Want Me / Pitbull - 154,000
10 Party In The U.S.A. / Miley Cyrus - 153,000
2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL SONGS
(combines all versions of the same Song: 12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 344,000
2 Right Round / Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - 263,000
3 Boom Boom Pow / Black Eyed Peas - 261,000
4 Poker Face / Lady Gaga - 206,000
5 Sexy Chick / David Guetta feat. Akon - 202,000
6 Fire Burning / Sean Kingston - 201,000
7 Tik Tok / Ke$ha - 190,000
8 I Know You Want Me / Pitbull - 182,000
9 Bad Romance / Lady Gaga - 160,000
10 Party In The U.S.A. / Miley Cyrus - 153,000
2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS
(12/29/08 – 1/3/2010)
1 Only By The Night / Kings Of Leon - 33,400
2 E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) / Black Eyed Peas - 28,400
3 Fame / Lady Gaga - 25,800
4 No Line On the Horizon / U2 - 22,200
5 Soundtrack / Twilight - 21,600
6 Fantasies / Metric - 20,900
7 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 19,800
8 Number Ones / Michael Jackson - 19,300
9 Dark Horse / Nickelback - 17,000
10 Relapse / Eminem - 15,700
2009 TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS
(based on digital track sales from 12/29/2008 - 1/3/2010)
1 Black Eyed Peas - 856,000
2 Lady Gaga - 845,000
3 Taylor Swift - 569,000
4 Flo Rida - 478,000
5 Michael Jackson - 464,000
6 Britney Spears - 459,000
7 Beyonce - 456,000
8 Miley Cyrus - 416,000
9 Nickelback - 415,000
10 Eminem - 333,000
TOP TEN ALBUMS DURING 2009 HOLIDAY SEASON
(based on album sales from 11/9/2009 - 12/27/2009)
1 I Dreamed A Dream / Susan Boyle - 306,000
2 My Christmas / Andrea Bocelli - 221,000
3 Crazy Love / Michael Buble - 150,000
4 Vox Pop / Landry Maxime - 131,000
5 Fame / Lady Gaga - 104,000
6 My World / Justin Bieber - 103,000
7 Muchdance 2010/Danceplus 2010 / Various - 102,000
8 Michael Jackson’s This Is It / Michael Jackson - 89,000
9 Silence / Fred Pellerin - 84,000
10 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 84,000
TOP TEN DIGITAL SONGS DURING HOLIDAY SEASON
(based on digital song sales from 11/9/2009 - 12/27/2009)
1 Tik Tok / Ke$ha - 117,000
2 Bad Romance / Lady Gaga - 116,000
3 Empire State of Mind / Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys - 80,000
4 Fireflies / Owl City - 74,000
5 Sexy Chick / David Guetta feat. Akon - 70,000
6 Meet Me Halfway / Black Eyed Peas - 61,000
7 Replay / I Yaz - 59,000
8 Whatcha Say / Jason Derulo - 55,000
9 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 44,000
10 3 / Britney Spears - 44,000
TOP TEN PHYSICAL ALBUMS
(based on CD, Cassette and LP album sales from 11/9/2009 - 12/27/2009)
1 I Dreamed A Dream / Susan Boyle - 313,000
2 Fame / Lady Gaga - 289,000
3 Crazy Love / Michael Buble - 276,000
4 E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) / Black Eyed Peas - 273,000
5 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 223,000
6 My Christmas / Andrea Bocelli - 222,000
7 Fais-Moi De La Tendresse / Ginette Reno - 207,000
8 Dark Horse / Nickelback - 182,000
9 Relapse / Eminem - 180,000
10 Movie Soundtrack / Hannah Montana Movie - 178,000
2009 Canadian Year-End Factoids
Total Album sales declined 2.2% compared to 2008, continuing a trend of declining music sales in Canada.
Increased digital growth in 2009 did not offset the decline in physical sales.
There were 9 million album sales during the holiday season (11/9 – 12/27), down 3.2% compared to 2008.
Album sales during the holiday season accounted for more than 25% of the total album sales for the year (which is consistent with a year ago).
47% of all albums purchased were at a Mass Merchant/Non Traditional outlets compared to 42% in 2008, 37% in 2007 and 34% in 2006.
The increase in the Mass Merchant/Non-Traditional strata is coming directly from the year-over-year increase in digital album sales.
Digital album sales accounted for 14% of total album sales for the year vs. 9% in 2008.
Retail (Chain/Indy) music stores accounted for 53% of all album sales, compared to 58% in 2008, 63% in 2007 and 66% in 2006.
Digital Factoids
More than 56 million digital tracks were purchased in 2009; an increase of nearly 40% over 2008 and a new record for track sales in a year.
The top 200 digital songs accounted for 23% of all song purchases in 2009; 12.9 million sales compared to 8.2 million in 2008.
Digital album sales increased nearly 42% compared to 2008 with sales of 4.8 million sales compared to 3.4 million in 2008.
The top 100 digital albums accounted for nearly 20% of all digital album sales in 2009.
The digital share of total album sales in Canada was 13.6% in 2009, compared with 20.4% in the U.S.
For week ending December 27th of 2009 the following digital sales records were broken:
Digital track sales set a new weekly high with sales surpassing the 2 million sales barrier for the first time with nearly 2.1 million digital track downloads. The previous weekly sales record was set during the final week of 2008 with 1.8 million sales.
Digital album sales this week broke the 150,000 mark for the first time with album sales of 173,000; breaking the previous record of 142,000 digital album sales (12/28/08).
Ke$ha’s Tik Tok set a new weekly sales record with 36,000 sales downloads; this was the second digital song to break 30,000 downloads for one week. The previous record was set earlier in the year (week ending 2/15/09) by Flo Rida’s Right Round which sold 34,000 downloads.
The top 100 digital songs for the week posted an all-time high with 586,000 sales; breaking the previous record of 457,000 during the last week of 2008.
Best Seller Factoids
Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream which was released just six weeks left in the year, is the biggest selling album of the year with 319,000 sales; edging Lady Gaga’s Fame (315,000).
After missing the top 10 a year ago, Michael Buble makes it back into the top 10 albums of the year with Crazy Love as the fourth best selling album of the year; 290,000 sales.
Michael Jackson is the biggest selling artist with album sales of 651,000 in 2009.
Prior to 2009, there had been just over 700,000 Michael Jackson albums purchased over the past 13 years in Canada.
Note that the top 4 selling artists for the year in 2008 were all groups. In 2009, 4 out of the top 5 best selling artists were solo artists.
The Beatles came in as the #4 overall artist in 2009 but the Beatles were the biggest selling group for 2009.
Black Eyed Peas was the biggest selling digital artist with digital track sales surpassing 855,000 in 2009.
(Note that 5 out of the top 10 biggest selling digital artists in 2009 are female solo artists.)
Two native Canadian artists continue to hold the top two spots as the best selling artists in Canada during the Nielsen SoundScan era: Celine Dion (7.1 million albums sold) and Shania Twain (4.2 million albums sold).
These same two artists continue to have the biggest selling albums for Canada in the Nielsen SoundScan era; Shania Twain’s Come On Over album has sold 1.9 million units and Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk about Love album with 1.5 million sales.
The biggest selling digital artist during the Nielsen SoundScan era is Rihanna with 1,183,000 downloads. Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga are right on their heels with download sales of 1,178,000 and1,160,000 respectively.
The biggest selling digital song during the Nielsen SoundScan era is “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas with 344,000 downloads. Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” and “Just Dance” come in at #2 and #3 with sales of 318,000 and 287,000 respectively.
Coldplay’s Viva La Vida continues to be the biggest selling digital album in the Nielsen SoundScan era with more than 60,000 downloads.
MOST PLAYED TITLES AND ARTISTS, BASED ON NIELSEN BDS DATA
*For the 2009 Calendar Year*
2009 Top 10 Most Played Songs
(based on airplay from 1/1/2009 to 12/31/09)
1 You Belong With Me / Taylor Swift - 51,600
2 Love Story / Taylor Swift - 49,800
3 Use Somebody / Kings Of Leon - 49,600
4 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 42,200
5 Africa / Karl Wolf feat. Culture* - 40,800
6 I’m Yours / Jason Mraz - 38,700
7 Beautiful U R / Deborah Cox* - 36,300
8 If Today Was Your Last Day / Nickelback* - 35,900
9 Please Don’t Leave Me / Pink - 35,900
10 Right Round / Flo Rida - 35,800
2009 Top 10 Airplay Artists
(based on airplay from 1/1/2009 to 12/31/09)
1 Nickelback* - 150,000
2 Taylor Swift - 144,000
3 Lady Gaga - 108,000
4 Beyonce - 105,000
5 Pink - 100,000
6 Black Eyed Peas - 98,000
7 Kelly Clarkson - 96,000
8 Keith Urban - 86,000
9 Britney Spears - 83,000
10 Katy Perry - 82,000
2009 Top 10 Music Video Airplay
(based on airplay from 1/1/2009 to 12/31/09)
1 Gotta Be Somebody / Nickelback* - 2,500
2 I Gotta Feeling / Black Eyed Peas - 2,300
3 Rusted from The Rain / Billy Talent* - 2,200
4 Anybody Listening / Classified* - 2,200
5 Cross My Heart / Marianas Trench* - 2,100
6 Devil On My Shoulder / Billy Talent* - 2,100
7 Halo / Beyonce - 2,100
8 Young Cardinals / AlexisOnFire* - 2,000
9 Right Round / Flo Rida - 2,000
10 Sexy Chick / David Guetta feat. Akon - 1,900
* = meets Canadian Content Criteria
2009 Top 10 Holiday Songs Airplay
(based on airplay from 11/1/2009 – 12/27/2009)
1 All I Want For Christmas Is… /Mariah Carey - 2,300
2 Do They Know It’s Christmas? / Band Aid - 2,200
3 Feliz Navidad / Jose Feliciano - 2,100
4 Happy X-Mas (War is Over) / John Lennon - 1,900
5 Last Christmas / Wham! - 1,800
6 Wonderful Christmas Time / Paul McCartney - 1,800
7 Rockin’ Around the Christmas… / Brenda Lee - 1,700
8 A Holly Jolly Christmas / Burl Ives - 1,600
9 Jingle Bell Rock / Bobby Helms - 1,500
10 Step Into Christmas / Elton John - 1,500
TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA
BEST SELLING ALBUMS
(from 1995 - 1/3/2010)
1 Come On Over / Shania Twain - 1,926,000
2 Let’s Talk About Love / Celine Dion - 1,490,000
3 Big Shiny Tunes 2 / Various Artists - 1,233,000
4 Romanza / Andrea Bocelli - 1,123,000
5 Beatles 1 / Beatles - 1,103,000
6 Up! / Shania Twain - 1,092,000
7 Aquarium / Aqua - 1,086,000
8 Surfacing / Sarah McLachlan - 1,076,000
9 Millennium / Backstreet Boys - 1,073,000
10 Backstreet’s Back / Backstreet Boys - 1,048,000
BEST SELLING ARTISTS
(from 1995 - 1/3/2010)
1 Celine Dion - 7,115,000
2 Shania Twain - 4,245,000
3 Backstreet Boys - 4,128,000
4 U2 - 3,641,000
5 Beatles - 3,263,000
6 Sarah McLachlan - 3,193,000
7 Eminem - 3,171,000
8 Tragically Hip - 3,056,000
9 Andrea Bocelli - 3,034,000
10 Diana Krall - 2,820,000
BEST SELLING DIGITAL SONGS
(2/13/2005 – 1/3/2010)
1 I Gotta Feeling[/u] / Black Eyed Peas - 344,000
2 Poker Face / Lady Gaga - 318,000
3 Just Dance / Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis - 287,000
4 Right Round / Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - 263,000
5 Boom Boom Pow / Black Eyed Peas - 261,000
6 Hot N Cold / Katy Perry - 245,000
7 Low / Flo Rida - 226,000
8 I Kissed A Girl / Katy Perry - 211,000
9 Apologize / Timbaland feat. One Republic - 207,000
10 Disturbia / Rihanna - 206,000
BEST SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS
(2/13/2005 – 1/3/2010)
1 Viva La Vida / Coldplay - 60,300
2 Only By The Night / Kings Of Leon - 44,600
3 Fame / Lady Gaga - 34,000
4 Soundtrack / Twilight - 30,700
5 Reminder / Feist - 29,200
6 E.N.D.(Energy Never Dies) / Black Eyed Peas - 28,400
7 Fearless / Taylor Swift - 28,100
8 Dark Horse / Nickelback - 26,100
9 Number Ones / Michael Jackson - 22,600
10 Back To Black / Amy Winehouse - 22,600
BEST SELLING DIGITAL ARTISTS
(based on digital track sales from 2/13/2005 - 1/3/2010)
1 Rihanna - 1,183,000
2 Black Eyed Peas - 1,178,000
3 Lady Gaga - 1,160,000
4 Britney Spears - 959,000
5 Nickelback - 949,000
6 Kanye West - 805,000
7 Beyonce - 793,000
8 Taylor Swift - 790,000
9 Flo Rida - 771,000
10 Madonna - 766,000