CHART (MAGAZINE)

'''Chart''' is a monthly Canadian music magazine. It is currently the only English Canadian popular music consumer magazine operating as a paid newsstand and subscriber title. (''Canadian Musician'', also a paid newsstand and subscriber title, targets musicians, and ''Exclaim!'', ''Chart'''s primary competition as a general interest music magazine, is distributed as a free publication much like an alternative newsweekly.)
Launched in 1991 as '''National Chart''', the magazine was started by York University students Edward Skira and Nada Laskovski as a tipsheet and airplay chart for campus radio stations in Canada. The magazine soon grew to include interviews, CD reviews and other features. National Chart was considered an internal publication for the National Campus and Community Radio Association, Canada's association of campus radio stations, and was not available as a newsstand title.
When Skira and Laskovski graduated, they incorporated ''Chart'' as an independent magazine, and began to pursue national newsstand distribution. Although it is no longer an NCRA publication, many campus radio stations contine to file airplay reports for the magazine's Top 50 chart.
The magazine's primary focus is Canadian alternative rock and indie rock, although they profile important international acts, and rap and pop music acts as well.
A monthly chart appears in each issue. Weekly charts can be viewed on the magazine's website.

Contents

Reader polls

Top 10 albums

Top 10 songs

See also

External links

Reader polls

In 1996, 2000 and 2005, the magazine conducted polls of readers, musicians and music industry professionals to determine the 50 best Canadian albums and songs of all time. There were 25 albums and 18 songs which ranked in the top 50 in all three polls.

Top 10 albums

'Rank'	'1996'	'2000'	'2005'
1	Sloan, ''Twice Removed''	Joni Mitchell, ''Blue''	Sloan, ''Twice Removed''
2	Neil Young, ''Harvest''	Neil Young, ''Harvest''	Neil Young, ''Harvest''
3	Joni Mitchell, ''Blue''	Sloan, ''Twice Removed''	Joni Mitchell, ''Blue''
4	The Tragically Hip, ''Up to Here''	Rheostatics, ''Whale Music''	Broken Social Scene, ''You Forgot It in People''
5	Rheostatics, ''Whale Music''	Rheostatics, ''Melville''	Neil Young, ''After the Gold Rush''
6	The Tragically Hip, ''Fully Completely''	The Lowest of the Low, ''Shakespeare My Butt''	The Weakerthans, ''Left and Leaving''
7	Neil Young, ''After the Gold Rush''	Sarah McLachlan, ''Fumbling Towards Ecstasy''	The Lowest of the Low, ''Shakespeare My Butt''
8	The Band, ''Music from Big Pink''	Rush, ''Moving Pictures''	The Tragically Hip, ''Fully Completely''
9	Cowboy Junkies, ''The Trinity Session''	Sloan, ''One Chord to Another''	The Band, ''The Band''
10	The Lowest of the Low, ''Shakespeare My Butt''	The Tragically Hip, ''Fully Completely''	Rheostatics, ''Whale Music''
11 - 50	1996 poll results	2000 poll results

Top 10 songs

'Rank'	'1996'	'2000'	'2005'
1	The Demics, "New York City"	The Guess Who, "American Woman"	The Guess Who, "American Woman"
2	Sloan, "Underwhelmed"	Sloan, "Underwhelmed"	Sloan, "Underwhelmed"
3	The Guess Who, "American Woman"	Gordon Lightfoot, "If You Could Read My Mind"	Neil Young, "The Needle and the Damage Done"
4	The Pursuit of Happiness, "I'm An Adult Now"	Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69"	Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
5	Martha and the Muffins, "Echo Beach"	Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"	Bryan Adams, "Summer of '69"
6	Bachman-Turner Overdrive, "Takin' Care of Business"	The Pursuit of Happiness, "I'm An Adult Now"	Rush, "Tom Sawyer"
7	Blue Rodeo, "Try"	The Tragically Hip, "New Orleans is Sinking"	The Band, "The Weight"
8	Treble Charger, "Red"	The Diodes, "Tired of Waking Up Tired"	Neil Young, "Cortez the Killer"
9	Rush, "Tom Sawyer"	The Demics, "New York City"	Neil Young, "Heart of Gold"
10	Slow, "Have Not Been the Same"	Neil Young, "Cinnamon Girl"	Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"
11-50	1996 poll results	2000 poll results

See also

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★ List of Canadian musicians

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External links

★ ''Chart'', official website