Cancon on the Canadian Top 40 Charts this week: Carly Rae Jepsen (top Canadian at #10), Victoria Duffield, Mia Martina, Marianas Trench, Hedley, Nickelcrap, Hedley (again), Martin Solveig and Dragonette, Dru, Drake, Anjulie (11/40= 28%, still below the nationally legislated 35% for Cancon)
Notes: I've been doing the Cancon column on my blog for about a year now and never has the Top 40 quota for Canadian content met the 35% needed for Canadian broadcast radio. This is pretty telling about the will of Canadian broadcasters to air Canadian music. It's not like there's a shortage of it, more a lack of will of broadcasters to seek it out and play it. Moreover, it seems to be the same acts each week. A lot of the songs played over the past year spend more than 9 months on the Canadian charts.
The only thing of note on the Canadian charts this week is the Black Keys, lurking around the low 20s for the past few weeks. On the US charts, Adele gets her third #1 song from her second album, and electro-rockers Breathe Carolina get their first Top 40 single.
On a side note, does anyone else think that Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" sounds a lot like Cee-Lo's "Forget You"?
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