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FYI Now Carrying Mediabase Canada Radio Charts

After a longstanding and fruitful relationship with BDS, owned by Luminate (formerly known as Nielsen Music), Billboard partnered with Mediabase and in doing so the era of two separate airplay moni

FYI Now Carrying Mediabase Canada Radio Charts

By FYI Staff

After a longstanding and fruitful relationship with BDS, owned by Luminate (formerly known as Nielsen Music), Billboard partnered with Mediabase and in doing so the era of two separate airplay monitoring charts ended in December 2022.


FYI is pleased to report a successful agreement with Mediabase effective last week that allows us access to a menu of the Top 30 charts compiled from monitoring over 450 radio stations covering multiple formats in Canada.

Details about and further research materials can be had by writing mediabase.com.

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Angelique Francis
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Music News Digest: Angelique Francis Tops Canadian Blues Music Awards Nominations, Blue Rodeo Goes Platinum

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There are smiles in the Blue Rodeo camp now with the news that the veteran band's best-selling album, Five Days In July, has officially been certified Diamond for sales in Canada. This is a rare accomplishment as only a handful of other Canadian artists have achieved this status with an album recording. Release in 1993, Five Days In July contains such classics as "Hasn’t Hit Me Yet,” “5 Days in May” and “Bad Timing.”

The timing for this news is good, as it comes on the heels of the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations, which included a sold-out national tour, a Canadian postage stamp, a free Toronto hometown show, the award-winning documentary Blue Rodeo: Lost Together, the release of Greatest Hits Vol. 2 and a special Record Store Day collection, Songs Seldom Heard.

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