In 2003, Avril Lavigne kicked off the year with her #1 Let Go. Nickelback did the honours in 2002 with Silver Side Up back to back weeks with Dion’s A New Day Has Come. Céline Dion’s All the Way a Decade of Song managed to squeak itself into the top spot that year as well. In 1999, Come on Over by Shania Twain was the best-selling album of the year and became the highest selling LP from a Canadian of all-time in the UK (15th overall), remarkable in a country not known for its zeal towards country music. Let’s Talk About Love from Céline Dion did the trick in 1997. Bryan Adams returned to the zenith in 1996 via 18 Til I Die. It was the best-selling album of the year 1996. The same year Alanis Morissette‘s Jagged Little Pill hit #1 and is now the third best-selling Canadian album of all time in the UK (41st overall as of July 2016). Céline Dion was next thanks to The Colour of My Love in 1995 followed by Falling Into You in 1996. In 1994, his So Far So Good also reached the summit. It took 19 years for another Canadian album to top the British charts, Bryan Adams‘ Waking Up the Neighbours in 1991. The first number one album by a Canadian artist in the United Kingdom was Neil Young‘s Harvest in 1972. Only a baker’s dozen Canadian artists have placed an album at the summit of the British charts over the years. We eyeballed through the lists and our findings are below. Three of the latter are from Canadian artists. The Official Charts of the United Kingdom recently released lists of the all the number one albums in Britain, the top album each year, and the 60 best-selling albums of all time in the country. Have a listen below and find the track on iTunes. Having already appeared in commercials for Canadian Tire and in a music video from Snow Patrol (!), Vanessa takes the mic in “Dreamers” which is primed to become the anthem of summer 2016. While Mario has sold 3.5 million records, Vanessa is at the cusp of stardom. This Montreal-based teenage singer was selected to be the voice of the latest song from popular DJ MC Mario. Her most recent single “Moonlight” is a breathtaking electronic pop song of dreamy cloud surfing. We do know that she is from Toronto and is getting started on social media with her website in the early stages of development. Little is known about this independent artist who has thus far released three singles in the underground depths. We embed a video of performance snippets below. Avery released an astonishingly good vocal jazz album of covers in early 2016 called Life Lessons which matches her singing talent with very professional and gorgeous arrangements. One of the cool things about the genre is that it doesn’t matter how old you are singers and musicians of all ages, from junior to senior, are welcome in the spotlight. Teen prodigy Avery Raquel is a big reason why Canada is a world leader of jazz music.
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