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Sudanese-Canadian Rapper Shareef Has This Week's Hot New Radio Track in Canada

UMC hits a home run with Sudanese-Canadian singer Shareef, Arkells rack up yet another hit, and Floridian country singer Ashley Cooke makes good on her initial promise.

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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 represent the most copied tracks in the week ending Feb. 09. Most Active Indies blends downloads and streams, with the affiliated label and radio promotions company in parentheses.

Top Downloads:


  1. Shareef “OMG! (freestyle)” (Universal)
  2. d4vd “Leave Her” (Interscope/Universal)
  3. Medium Build “Crying Over Her” (Island/Universal)
  4. Nate Smith “Bulletproof” (RCA Nashville/Sony)
  5. Noah Kahan “Stick Season” (Mercury/Republic/Universal)
  6. Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani “Purple Irises” (Warner Nashville/Interscope/Warner)
  7. Arkells “Nobody Gets Me Like You Do (First Dance Version)” (Universal)
  8. Scotty Berg “Better” (Indie/You Are Hear Promo)
  9. Victoria Monét “On My Mama” (Lovett Music/RCA/Sony)
  10. Ashley Cooke “Your Place” (Big Loud)

Top CanCon Downloads:

  1. Shareef “OMG! (freestyle)” (Universal)
  2. Arkells “Nobody Gets Me Like You Do (First Dance Version)” (Universal)
  3. Scotty Berg “Better” (Indie/You Are Hear Promo)
  4. Frank Walker, Nate Smith “Missing You” (Palm Tree Records/Sony)
  5. Tyler Shaw “Back To Me” (Sony)
  6. Reklaws “I Grew Up On A Farm” (Starseed/A. Wilson Promo)
  7. Lil Deezy “RIP DOOM” (Indie)
  8. Aaron Pritchett “Just Wanna Feel It” (Big Star)
  9. Vandelux “Right Now f/Parson James” (Awesome Prod./You Are Hear Promo)
  10. Lydia Sutherland ft. Alli Walker “girls at the bar” (Universal)

Most Active Indies:

  1. Ashley Cooke “Your Place” (Big Loud)
  2. Vandelux “Right Now f/Parson James” (Awesome Prod./You Are Hear Promo)
  3. Scotty Berg “Better” (Indie/You Are Hear Promo)
  4. Reklaws “I Grew Up On A Farm” (Starseed/A. Wilson Promo)
  5. Aaron Pritchett “Just Wanna Feel It” (Big Star)
  6. Quote The Raven “Already Gone” (Taylor Ent.)
  7. Jason Aldean “Let Your Boys Be Country” (Macon Music/BMG/A. Wilson Promo)
  8. Jessica Towler “I Don’t Like Your Boyfriend” (Indie)
  9. Lil Deezy “RIP DOOM” (Indie)
  10. DJC2 “Peanut Butter, Pickle & Pastrami Panini” (Indie)
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Kneecap Blasts Norwegian Government at Oslo Festival, Accusing It of Funding ‘Genocide’ Against Palestinians
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Mo Chara, DJ Provaí and Móglaí Bap of Kneecap performs on the West Holts Stage during during day four of Glastonbury Festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2025 in Glastonbury, England.

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Kneecap Blasts Norwegian Government at Oslo Festival, Accusing It of Funding ‘Genocide’ Against Palestinians

The Irish rap trio went after the Norwegian government over its investments, which are currently under scrutiny, at Øyafestivalen.

Irish rap group Kneecap – which has drawn a storm of criticism, support, attention and legal action over the past half-year – continued to speak out about the war in Gaza during an afternoon set at the Øyafestivalen in Oslo, Norway, on Friday (Aug. 8).

Right before the trio of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí took the stage, an English-language white-text-on-black-background message played on a video screen, accusing the Norwegian government of “enabling” the “genocide” against the Palestinian people via investments held in the county’s sovereign wealth fund (referenced as “oil pension fund” in the message). “Over 80,000 people have been murdered by Israel in 21 months,” the band’s message continued. “Free Palestine.” The message was greeted readily by a cheering audience. Most estimates (including those from health officials in the area) place the Palestinian death toll at more than 60,000. That number does not distinguish between civilians and Hamas militants. An estimated 18,500 of those killed were children.

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