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Country Acts Old Dominion and Josh Ross Have Canada's Hottest Radio Tracks This Week

Kingston, Ontario band The Wilderness and rising Canadian pop star LU KALA are also performing well on radio this week with their songs "Strangers I Used to Love" and "Who's Gonna."

Old Dominion

Old Dominion

Mason Allen

The following are tracks delivered to radio by digital distributor Yangaroo in Canada and broken down into three categories. Top Downloads and Top Canadian Downloads represent the most copied tracks in the week ending July 5. Most Active Indies blends downloads and streams, with the affiliated label and radio promotions company in parentheses.

Top Downloads


  1. Old Dominion “Coming Home” (Three Up Three Down/Columbia Nashville/Sony)
  2. Kelsea Ballerini (with Noah Kahan) “Cowboys Cry Too” (Black River/Sony)
  3. Sabrina Carpenter “Please Please Please” (Island/Universal)
  4. Gracie Abrams “Close to You” (Interscope/Universal)
  5. Billie Eilish “Birds of a Feather” (Interscope/Universal)
  6. Louane “La Pluie” (Island/Universal)
  7. Madison Beer “Make You Mine” (Epic/Sing It Loud/Sony)
  8. The Kid Laroi “Girls” (Columbia/Sony)
  9. Lisa “Rockstar” (LaLisa Manobal/RCA/Sony)
  10. Josh Ross “Single Again” (The Core Ent. /Universal)

Top CanCon Downloads

  1. Josh Ross “Single Again” (The Core Ent. /Universal)
  2. The Wilderness “Strangers I Used to Love” (The Wilderness Band)
  3. Shantelle Davidson “For You I Will” (Indie/L. Tutty Promo)
  4. Mitch Zorn “Home” (604 Records/Coady. Promo)
  5. LU KALA “Who’s Gonna” (Amigo Records/You Are Hear Promo)
  6. Rosewood Ave “Talk About Us” (Willow Sound Records)
  7. Tim & The Glory Boys “Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Truck” (Sony)
  8. Tianna Woods “Girls Like Us” (Indie)
  9. Michaela Clarke “God I Hope So” (Michaela Clarke)
  10. Chloe Caroline “When We’re Older” (The Engine 360 via Vydia/RPMpromo)

Most Active Indies

  1. The Wilderness “Strangers I Used to Love” (The Wilderness Band)
  2. Queenie “Feels Good” (Disqus Juliette)
  3. Mitch Zorn “Home” (604 Records/Coady. Promo)
  4. Don Crucifixto Ft. Rotimi “I Believe” (Don Crucifixto Ent.)
  5. Shantelle Davidson “For You I Will” (Indie/L. Tutty Promo)
  6. Rosewood Ave “Talk About Us” (Willow Sound Records)
  7. Devin Cooper “Wanted Man” (Devin Cooper Music)
  8. Ivan Rivers “Mid-Riff” (Eternal Bummer Records)
  9. LU KALA “Who’s Gonna” (Amigo Records/You Are Hear Promo)
  10. Chloe Caroline “When We’re Older” (The Engine 360 via Vydia/RPMpromo)
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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​
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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​

The man behind one of Canada's most successful indie labels talks about the late-blooming success of French-language streaming record-holder Patrick Watson, why he builds long-term relationships with artists, and why it's important for the indie sector to work together.

Justin West is a leader and advocate in Canada’s independent music scene, but he didn’t plan it out that way. When he started his record label Secret City Records in Montreal in the mid-2000s, it was out of necessity. He had met an artist he loved and wanted to build a career with, and the label was a means to do it. That artist was Patrick Watson, and 20 years later he — and Secret City — are more successful than ever.

West — a multiple time Billboard Canada Power Player – leads one of the biggest indie labels in Canada while also advocating for the sector on multiple boards both locally and internationally. When we speak to him for this Executive of the Week interview, he’s just returned from Banff for the National Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Culture, and is a central figure in discussions around the Online Streaming Act and collective negotiations with online streaming platforms.

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