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Breaking Down Billboard Canada’s Year-End 2024 Charts

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It’s been an eventful year for music in Canada. Billboard Canada has published year-end versions of multiple charts: the Canadian Hot 100, Canadian Albums, Top Artists (which combines data from both), Canadian Airplay, Canadian Streaming and Canadian Digital Song Sales. Each one tells a story about the Canadian music landscape in 2024.
It’s no big surprise to see who tops the year-end Billboard Canadian Hot 100 chart. Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” broke the record for longest-leading No. 1 hit this year, surpassing Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” for 20 weeks at the top and then extending the record to 25 weeks at No. 1. He set a similar record on the U.S. Hot 100, but did it in Canada first and for longer (on the U.S. Year-End Hot 100, “Tipsy” finishes second behind “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims.)
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The biggest music story of the year was Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar. If one song can be declared the winner based solely on the charts, it’s “Not Like Us.” Even in Canada, Drake’s home turf, Kendrick’s irresistible diss track charted the highest. The song sits at No. 11 on the year-end Canadian Hot 100 and No. 11 on the year-end Streaming Songs chart. That chart success comes with some controversy, however, with Drake launching legal actions to accuse Universal Music Group, iHeartRadio and Spotify of conspiring to inflate the numbers. But the song was a bona fide hit.
Drake’s biggest hits, meanwhile, have little to do with his Kendrick beef. “IDGAF” with Yeat at No. 54, “Rich Baby Daddy” with SZA & Sexyy Red at No. 67, and “First Person Shooter” with J. Cole at No. 75 are all from his 2023 album For All The Dogs. And on the 2024 Artists chart for Canada? Drake is at No. 4 and Kendrick is at No. 17.
It’s never a surprise to see Taylor Swift ruling the year-end charts, but her unprecedented Eras Tour — undoubtedly the highest-grossing of all time — has given her an extra boost this year as she finished it off in Toronto and Vancouver in November and December. All of Taylor’s eras (or albums, if you’re old-fashioned) got a boost, which made her a lock for No. 1 on the Artists chart, which combines data from the Canadian Hot 100 and Canadian Albums chart. On the latter chart, Swift holds four of the top 10 spots: The Tortured Poets Department at No. 1, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) at No. 4 and Lover and Midnights at Nos. 9 and 10.
Check out a full chart breakdown — including trends like the resurgence of Canadian icons, homegrown radio hits and the success of francophone Quebec and Punjabi artists — here. And find all the year-end 2024 charts here.
This story was originally published by Billboard Canada.
Richard Trapunski

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