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Taylor Swift & Post Malone Have Canada's Hottest New Radio Track For the Second Straight Week

Other acts with potboilers include Dua Lipa and Hozier, plus Canadians Alexander Stewart, the Chris Buck Band, The Damn Truth and Johnny Orlando.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Beth Garrabrant

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 April 26. Most Active Indies blends downloads and streams, with the affiliated label and radio promotions company in parentheses.

Top Downloads



  1. Taylor Swift “Fortnight" (feat. Post Malone) (Republic/Universal)
  2. Dua Lipa “Illusion” (Atlantic/Warner)
  3. Hozier “Too Sweet” (Columbia/Sony)
  4. Chris Buck Band “Cowboy Boots" (feat. Gord Bamford) (Sakamoto/ADA/Warner)
  5. Cole Swindell “Forever To Me” (Warner Music Nashville/Warner)
  6. Knox “Not The 1975” (Warner)
  7. Riley Green “Damn Good Day To Leave” (Nashville Harbor Records and Ent. /BMLG)
  8. Johnny Orlando “Wait For You” (Universal)
  9. The Damn Truth “I Just Gotta Let You Know” (Spectra Musique/Canvas Media Promo)
  10. The Redhill Valleys “Rhinestoned” (MDM/Dale Speaking Promo)

Top CanCon Downloads


  1. Chris Buck Band “Cowboy Boots (feat. Gord Bamford)” (Sakamoto/ADA/Warner)
  2. Johnny Orlando “Wait For You” (Universal)
  3. The Damn Truth “I Just Gotta Let You Know” (Spectra Musique/Canvas Media Promo)
  4. The Redhill Valleys “Rhinestoned” (MDM/Dale Speaking Promo)
  5. Alexander Stewart “Broken By You” (FAE grp/The Orchard/You Are Hear Promo)
  6. Maude Cyr-Deschênes “J’avoue” (Universal)
  7. Dallas Smith “Use Me” (Local Hay/Big Loud)
  8. Mike Demero, Zagata “Take Me Away (My Love)” (Artifice/Warner)
  9. Kamii “Fade Into You” (Kamii Music)
  10. Drew Gregory “This Side Of Dirt” (Willing/Universal/B. Martineau Promo)

Most Active Indies


  1. The Damn Truth “I Just Gotta Let You Know” (Spectra Musique/Canvas Media Promo)
  2. Alexander Stewart “Broken By You” (FAE grp/The Orchard/You Are Hear Promo)
  3. Rudy Gunn “Slow Down” (Nashville North Records)
  4. The Redhill Valleys “Rhinestoned” (MDM/Dale Speaking Promo)
  5. Kamii “Fade Into You” (Kamii Music)
  6. Karli June “Still Make Cowgirls” (Indie/Pitbull Promo)
  7. Shawn Austin “Words” (Local Hay/Big Loud)
  8. Dallas Smith “Use Me” (Local Hay/Big Loud)
  9. Drew Gregory “This Side Of Dirt” (Willing/Universal/B. Martineau Promo)
  10. Foxx Worthee “This Ain’t My First Rodeo” (Taylor Ent.)
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