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Top 10 Downloaded Songs In Canada

Posted Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:16am PST by Robert of the Radish in The Y! Music Playlist Blog

Our friends from the Great White North have a fine reputation for appreciating good music. There's currently a lot of great rock, indie music and even hip-hop coming out of Canada. And of course we're all aware of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Rush. The only bones I can think of to pick with Canada have to do with Nickelback and Bryan Adams.

As I was thinking about Canadian musicians I began to think about Canadian music fans. Are they really as tragically hip as they seem?

To find the truth I checked out the iTunes download chart for Canada. The following songs are currently the most downloaded by our neighbors to the North. 

As you can see from the songs below, Canada's musical tastes are almost in lock-step with the U.S. Unfortunately, that means almost universally bad.

Top 10 Downloaded Songs In Canada 

   1. Poker Face - Lady GaGa  

   2. I Hate This Part - Pussycat Dolls  

   3. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce   

   4. Circus - Britney Spears   

   5. Right Now (Na Na Na) - Akon  

   6. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz   

   7. Hot N Cold - Katy Perry   

   8. Love Lockdown - Kanye West   

   9. Love Story - Taylor Swift   

   10. Just Dance featuring Colby O'Donis - Lady GaGa   

13 Comments

1. Yahoo! Music User -
pretty gay...

2. DUDE -
Good day,Eh?

3. Lasalleguy -
All seem to me to be corpra pop industry driven drivel thats as wimpy,safe and as non effensive as it can get. Most of them never write the songs or play instruments very well. It's all about the money now.No longer is it about the music,just cash flow.

4. Andika -
good ...
good...

i,m like

5. Chris the first -
That's their top ten downloaded songs, How uninspiring.

6. __A_YAHOO_USER__ -
I share mutual feelings with these charts, Rob.

Its more or less the same as here...except...for the pussycat dolls...I think...

C'mmon Canada! Pussycat dolls can't sing, and Single Ladies is such an annoying song.
As for Kate Perry, she is just a novelty thing that people bought. Ugh...

Universally bad indeed.

7. Yahoo! Music User -
Chris the first, says it. bad bad bad!

8. Diana -
I am not surprised that these songs sre the top ones there but COME ON! these songs are so 'popular', they play way too much on the radio and where ever else. It just gets tiring. Give me a break.

9. Yahoo! Music User -
I Live in Canada! I Love These Songs! Stop Critisizing Canadians For liking these songs. It's Like us Canadians Telling you That u are Stupid Because you like Music we don't. If you don't Like these songs then don't Post and just Keep it to yourself. Everyone has their Own opinion and You really don't need to tell EVERYONE yours.

10. Yahoo! Music User -
well i dunno some of these r pretty intense but yeah its all 4 the $

11. Yahoo! Music User -
I like all these songs. but love lockdown wasn't the best grass over the bridge.

12. Nikki -
I live in Canada, and I personally don't like any of these songs. Lady Gaga creases me, and the Pussycat Dolls are just...atrocious.

13. simply blue -
i dont thnk poker face...shd be on top.... :O
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