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A Fortunate Reprisal With Swift & Cara

The following are tracks delivered to radio by digital distributor DMDS/Yangaroo in Canada and broken down into three categories.

A Fortunate Reprisal With Swift & Cara

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The following are tracks delivered to radio by digital distributor DMDS/Yangaroo in Canada and broken down into three categories. Top Downloads and Top Canadian Downloads represents the most copied tracks in the weeks ending Feb. 7, and the Most Active Indies blends downloads and streams, with the affiliated label and radio promotions company in parenthesis.


Top Downloads:

  1. Alessia Cara “October” (Def Jam/Universal)

  2. Taylor Swift “The Man” (Republic/Universal)

  3. Crown Lands “Spit It Out” (Universal)

  4. The Black Eyed Peas X J Balvin “RITMO (Bad Boys For Life)” (Epic/Sony)

  5. Nikki Yanofsky “Forget” (eOne)

  6. Justin Bieber “Intentions (feat. Quavo)” (Def Jam/Universal)

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  7. Diplo & Julia Michaels feat. Morgan Wallen “Heartless” (Columbia/Sony)

  8. Lizzo “Cuz I Love You” (Warner)

  9. KALEO “Break My Baby” (Warner)

  10. Niall Horan “No Judgement” (Capitol/Universal)

Top CanCon Downloads:

  1. Alessia Cara “October” (Def Jam/Universal)

  2. Crown Lands “Spit It Out” (Universal)

  3. Nikki Yanofsky “Forget” (eOne)

  4. Brett Kissell “She Drives Me Crazy” (Warner)

  5. Ali Gatie “What If I Told You That I Love You” (Warner)

  6. The Standstills “No More Mr. Nice Guy” (eOne)

  7. Anyway Gang “Eyes Of Green” (Royal Mountain/Universal)

  8. Ryland James “Shoulder To Cry On” (21 Ent/Universal)

  9. Lennon Stella “Kissing Other People” (Columbia/Sony)

  10. MacKenzie Porter “Seeing Other People” (Big Loud)

Most Active Indies:

  1. Bedouin Soundclash “Born Into Bad Times” (Mr. Bongo/Frontside Promo)

  2. Nikki Yanofsky “Forget” (eOne)

  3. The Standstills “No More Mr. Nice Guy” (eOne)

  4. Dirty Honey “Rolling 7’s” (Dirt)

  5. Headstones “Horses” (Cadence/B. Chick Promo)

  6. MacKenzie Porter “Seeing Other People” (Big Loud)

  7. Kelsi Mayne “As I Go” (Indie/RPMpromo)

  8. Don Amero “Morning Coffee” (MDM/Dale Speaking Promo)

  9. Bleeker “Disaster” (Better Noise/RPMpromo)

  10. Jake Mathews “Start Of Something Good” (Indie)

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