The Tragically Hip Mark New Billboard Canada Chart Records A Decade After Their Final Concert

A decade since The Tragically Hip's final concert, they're continuing to hit new milestones on the Billboard Canada charts.

Yer Favourites, the beloved Canadian band's greatest hits album, is marking its 400th week on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart this week, dated Aug. 15. The album sits at No. 37 this week. It previously peaked at No. 1., nearly a decade ago on the Sept. 1, 2016 chart.

Released in 2005, Yer Favourites is a compilation of over 30 remastered classic songs from the group, including hits like “Bobcaygeon,” “Wheat Kings,” “Ahead by a Century” and “New Orleans Is Sinking.” The tracks were selected by the band's fans on their website, and two new tracks that bookended the album: “No Threat” and “The New Maybe.”

Over its 400 weeks on the chart, Yer Favourites has often risen higher on the chart around Canada Day. Nearly a decade after its release, it reached No. 1, following the group’s final concert in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario, which was broadcast on CBC in August 2016.

Yer Favourites is the seventh-longest-charting album in the chart’s history.

Longest-Charting Albums on the Billboard Canadian Albums Chart

1. Eminem,Curtain Call: The Hits (551 weeks)
2. Luke Combs, This One’s For You (472 weeks)
3. Drake, Views (464 weeks)
4. Elton John, Diamonds (439 weeks)
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits (438 weeks)
6. Ed Sheeran, ÷ (423 weeks)

Throughout their decades-spanning career, The Hip — consisting of the late frontman Gord Downie, guitarists Paul Langlois and Rob Baker, bassist Gord Sinclair and drummer Johnny Fay — have charted 20 albums on the Canadian Albums chart.

They’re currently tied for third-most among all artists.

Most Albums All-Time Albums Charted on the Billboard Canadian Albums Chart

1. Céline Dion (25)
2. MC Mario (23)
3. The Tragically Hip (20)
4. Drake (20)
5. The Beatles (20)

Of The Hip’s charting albums, 15 have reached the top 10 and seven hit No. 1, including: 1997’s Life Between Us, 1998’s Phantom Power, 2000’s Music @ Work, 2004’s In Between Evolution, 2005’s Yer Favourites, 2009’s We Are The Same and 2016’s Man Machine Poem.

Downie died a little over a year after their final show, on Oct. 17, 2017, from brain cancer. To commemorate the band’s final show, the major Canadian broadcaster CBC will re-air the concert, The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration, this weekend, on Aug. 22. There will be special viewings in the band's hometown of Kingston, Ontario and all around Canada.

Back in 2016, the special reportedly amassed an estimated 11.7 million viewers and listeners across television, radio and online. This year’s broadcast will be preceded by A Beautiful Thing, a 17-minute documentary by filmmaker Mike Downie, Gord’s brother, featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and “notable Canadians” talking about the impact of the Hip and the significance of the band’s last concert.

Despite Downie’s passing, the band has continued to uphold their impact on Canadian culture. Last year, an unearthed track from 1989, “Wait So Long,” peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Canada Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. This year, The Hip signed on as ambassadors for the Boi-1da-led Perfect Pitch Program with Canada Soccer. The Canadian producer teamed up with Dallas Green of City & Colour and Ruby Waters to reimagine their hit "Ahead By A Century."

A month after the The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration re-broadcast, the group will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside Feist, Loverboy and Roch Voisine.

"We’re excited to be entering the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and joining previous inductees, as well as this year’s, whose songs we greatly admire," the remaining members wrote in a statement. "It is humbling to be in their company; although it is bittersweet that our bandmate, lyricist and dear friend, Gord Downie, will not be standing with us."