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Here is this week's MRC Data Market Watch report which features Canadian music stats for the current week and YTD with comparisons to last year. This chart is published every Tuesday. The abbreviation "TEA" is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. A track equivalent album is equal to 10 tracks, or 10 songs.
Currently, “52 Bars” has over 72 million views while “Take It Easy” has 60 million, above heavy hitters like Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj’s “Princess Diana” and sitting alongside the world’s most popular artists like Miley Cyrus and Morgan Wallen. Gary Sandhu also made with the list, which means three out of ten of the most watched music videos in Canada were not in English, but in Punjabi.
IkkyPhotography team: Ishmil Waterman, Lane Dorsey, Sasha Jairam/Billboard Canada. Styling by Veronika Lipatova, Nikita Jaisinghani, Aliecia Brisette. Makeup & Hair by Franceline Graham.
Here is the full list:
After their Four You EP, producer Ikky and singer Aujla collaborated on the album Making Memories, which made No. 5 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart.
“All of my friends were joking around telling me, yo, you passed Taylor Swift!” Aujla told Billboard Canada when they appeared alongside Jonita Gandhi, AP Dhillon and Gurinder Gill as part of the Punjabi Wave cover. “When we saw these numbers, and we saw that mark, we thought, okay, something is happening here.”
This is just the latest example of the waves Punjabi music have been making in Canada and around the world. This week, tickets went on sale for Diljit Dosanjh’s upcoming show in Vancouver, which is expected to be the biggest Punjabi concert ever outside India.
The list was revealed as part of YouTube’s 2023 year in review. The video streaming platform also announced its Top Canadian Creators and Breakout Canadian Creators, as well as its Top Trending Videos, which was topped by Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show.
Here are this year’s lists:
