Top 100 Canadian Singles

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Taken from a guy who consulted with a bunch of 'experts' and wrote a book about it, spoilered for length...

1. The Guess Who — “American Woman”

2. Neil Young — “Heart of Gold”

3. The Band — “The Weight”

4. Bryan Adams — “Summer of ’69”

5. Leonard Cohen — “Hallelujah”

6. Steppenwolf — “Born to Be Wild”

7. Gordon Lightfoot — “If You Could Read My Mind”

8. Bachman Turner Overdrive — “Takin' Care of Business”

9. Ian and Sylvia — “Four Strong Winds”

10. Anne Murray — “Snowbird”

11. Joni Mitchell — “Big Yellow Taxi” / “Woodstock”

12. Rush — “Tom Sawyer”

13. Blue Rodeo — “Try”

14. Tragically Hip — “New Orleans is Sinking”

15. Gordon Lightfoot — “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”

16. Leonard Cohen — “Suzanne”

17. Tom Cochrane — “Life is a Highway”

18. The Guess Who — “These Eyes”

19. Gordon Lightfoot — “Sundown”

20. Sloan — “Underwhelmed”

21. The Band — “Up on Cripple Creek” / “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”

22. Maestro Fresh Wes — “Let Your Backbone Slide”

23. The Diodes — “Tired of Waking Up Tired”

25. Rush — “The Spirit of Radio”

25. Crowbar — “Oh What a Feeling”

26. Rough Trade — “High School Confidential”

27. Martha and the Muffins — “Echo Beach”

28. Stampeders — “Sweet City Woman”

29. Arcade Fire — “Wake Up”

30. Barenaked Ladies — “If I Had $1,000,000”

31. Robert Charlebois — “Lindberg”

32. The Pursuit Of Happiness — “I'm an Adult Now”

33. Ugly Ducklings — “Nothin’ “

34. Sloan — “Coax Me”

35. Rush — “Closer to the Heart”

36. Teenage Head — “Picture My Face”

37. Guess Who — “Shakin' All Over”

38. Five Man Electrical Band — “Signs”

39. Blue Rodeo — “Lost Together”

40. Ron Hynes — “Sonny's Dream”

41. Men Without Hats — “The Safety Dance”

42. Rheostatics — “Claire”

43. Lighthouse — “One Fine Morning”

44. A Foot In Coldwater — “(Make Me Do) Anything You Want”

45. Corey Hart — “Sunglasses At Night”

46. Loverboy — “Working For The Weekend”

47. Trooper — “Raise A Little Hell”

48. Parachute Club — “Rise Up”

49. Alannah Myles — “Black Velvet”

50. Terry Jacks — “Seasons in the Sun”

51. Malajube — “Montreal -40C”

52. Neil Young — “Cinnamon Girl”

53. Alanis Morissette — “You Oughta Know”

54. Feist — “1234”

55. Arcade Fire — “Rebellion (Lies)”

56. k.d. lang — “Constant Craving”

57. Neil Young — “Rockin' in the Free World”

58. Michel Pagliaro — “Lovin' You Ain't Easy”

59. Bruce Cockburn — “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”

60. Tragically Hip — “Bobcaygeon”

61. Joni Mitchell — “A Case of You” / “California”

62. The Demics — “New York City”

63. Bryan Adams — “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”

64. Tragically Hip — “Ahead by a Century”

65. Blue Rodeo — “Five Days in May”

66. Hank Snow — “I'm Moving On”

67. Harmonium — “Pour un instant”

68. Steppenwolf — “Magic Carpet Ride”

69. Sloan — “Money City Maniacs”

70. Celine Dion — “My Heart Will Go On”

71. k-os — “Crabbuckit”

72. The Kings —“This Beat Goes on/Switchin' to Glide”

73. Neil Young — “Old Man” / “Needle and the Damage Done”

74. Jean Leloup — “1990”

75. Payola$ — “Eyes of a Stranger”

76. Blue Rodeo — “Hasn't Hit Me Yet”

77. Bachman Turner Overdrive — “You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet”

78. Bruce Cockburn — “Wondering Where the Lions Are”

79. April Wine — “You Could Have Been a Lady”

80. Teenage Head — “Let's Shake”/ “Somethin' On My Mind”

81. Joni Mitchell — “Help Me”

82. Trooper — “We're Here For A Good Time”

83. Lighthouse — “Sunny Days”

84. Jean-Pierre Ferland — “Le petit roi”

85. Bryan Adams — “Cuts Like A Knife”

86. Stompin' Tom Connors — “The Hockey Song”

87. Tragically Hip — “Wheat Kings”

88. Gilles Vigneault — “Mon pays”

89. Spirit of The West — “Home For a Rest”

90. New Pornographers — “Letter from an Occupant”

91. Guess Who — “No Time”

92. Mashmakhan — “As the Years Go By”

93. Neil Young — “Hey Hey My My”

94. Paul Anka — “Diana”

95. Daniel Lanois — “The Maker”

96. The Spoons — “Nova Heart”

97. Beau Dommage — “La complainte du phoque en Alaska”

98. Ron Sexsmith — “Secret Heart”

99. Bryan Adams — “Run to You”

100. Wintersleep — “Weighty Ghost”

Certainly not a horrible list. Sloan are way too high in my opinion, they never had that level of popularity. Malajube at #50 seems like a way to get a French song in the top half, I suspect nobody consulted really had any idea what was popular in Quebec (then again, if you asked me, I'd have put "Mon Pays" much higher, so I probably don't much either).

Much as I love the New Pornographers and they're my favourite band ever, they don't deserve to be on this list. Even Wintersleep are closer to something resembling mainstream.

[Gazz]

No Robin Sparkles?

[fr34k]

No Robin Sparkles?

[munky]

No Anvil?

[Clawson]

Home for a Rest should be top ten!

And Sandcastles in the Sand should never have flopped. Epic tune.

[Maxx]

Informer isn't #1, this makes me think the list is fake.

[Liam]

'If You Could Read My Mind' should be higher.

[METALMAN]

What sort of crazy person goes and makes a list of Canadian singles?

[SeanDMan]

This list is incredibly bad actually.

[METALMAN]

Of course it is. It features Rush.

[Colly]

No Nelly Furtado!

[Guest Jacob]

Am i the only one who cannot stand Bryan Adams? He is like the canadian Bono.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Only less so, because of the rule where any Canadian artist that makes it bigger in the US than in Canada must suck quite horribly.