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Metric Is a ‘Victim of Luck’ on the Billboard Canada Modern Rock Airplay Chart
Plus, Lights secures an entry on Mainstream Rock with “Come Get Your Girl.”
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Metric is getting lucky on the Airplay charts.
The Canadian band’s track “Victim of Luck” arrives at No. 23 on the Billboard Canada Modern Rock Airplay chart, dated Feb. 21.
The song is an electro-pop number that soars — it’s elevated by heavy synths and crunching drums that complement frontwoman Emily Haines’s vocals as she muses on the early days of the band in the late '90s and early 2000s and how they’ve handled the highs and lows of success throughout their decades-spanning careers.
It cuts straight to the point, celebrating the compulsion and ambition of their early years to illustrate what’s missing in real time, as their relationships to success evolve. “I was a starving artist but I was fearless / Now I don’t know what we are, frightened of heights we knew,” Haines sings.
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“Victim of Luck” serves as the lead single for the group’s forthcoming album, Romanticize the Dive, out Apr. 24 via Thirty Tigers Records.
“You can be as much a victim of good luck as bad," says Haines. "So when we started out yes we were broke and we were playing to ten people and there was nothing for us to fall back on but we refused to give up, and it’s not as though we’re all superstar billionaires now, but that was never what we were after.”
The song’s music video leans into the nostalgia, featuring unseen archival shots from Metric’s early touring days — clips capturing the band riding in vans and playing to tiny crowds take centre stage, but is spliced between present-day footage.
It's a nostalgic time for Canadian indie rock, and Metric's success comes at the right time. This summer, the band will join Broken Social Scene and Stars on tour, making a sole Canadian stop in Toronto on Aug. 7 at RBC Amphitheatre.
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Lights has a new entry on the Mainstream Rock chart, with “Come Get Your Girl” at No. 37.
The celebratory synth-pop track details what it's like to deeply care for someone when it feels like it’s almost too late. In this case, the Ontario singer-songwriter is referring to herself as she reflects on different eras of her life. It’s driven by its massive singalong chorus that’s instantly catchy: “I don't wanna wait anymore / I'm in the city on the curbside / Come get your girl.”
Leaning into nostalgia, the music video is filled to the brim with throwback imagery spanning her fruitful career, showing how each iteration of the singer walked, so the next could run: “Every version hands something forward, because every version of yourself matters in becoming who you are,” Lights says.
The song comes from her recently independently released A6EXTENDED. It’s only fitting for the Billboard Canada Women in Music 2025 Visionary, paying homage to every facet of Lights and her career with a sense of earnestness.
Last week, she kicked off the charting track’s namesake tour in Western Canada with Ontario twin-sibling duo Softcult, before she headed stateside. In March, she’ll return to her home country, making stops in London, Ottawa, Québec City and Montreal.
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Elsewhere on Modern Rock, The Beaches land their second chart placement with their cover of the '80s hit “I Ran (So Far Away)” debuts at No. 39. The Sheepdogs round out the third entry on Modern Rock at No. 40 with “Keep Out Of The Storm.”
On All-Format, The Prairie States arrives at No. 44 with “Feels Like Forever,” and The Reklaws and Dean Brody’s “Hometown Heroes” debuts at No. 45. After securing a spot on CHR/Top 40 in December, Adam Rodway’s “Runaround” snags No. 38 on Hot AC.
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The Canada Country Airplay chart sees two new entries: Nate Haller’s “Thought About You” at No. 48 and Tenille Arts debuts at No. 57 with “Don’t Ruin The Flowers.”
At the top, Bruno Mars rises to the No. 1 spot on All-Format with “I Just Might,” adding to his chart-topping reign, which includes AC. The pop singer rises to No. 2 on CHR/Top 40 and Hot AC, potentially serving as a threat to Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need.”
For the fourth week in a row, country radio listeners are “Choosin’ Texas” as Ella Langley maintains the No. 1 spot. On the rock Airplay charts, Ontario’s Three Days Grace hits one month at the top with “Kill Me Fast” on Mainstream Rock, while Winnipeg’s Boy Golden’s “Suffer” hits its third month at No. 1 on Modern Rock.
Check out the Billboard Canada Airplay charts here.
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