2013_in_Canadian_music
2013 in Canadian music
Overview of the events of 2013 in Canadian music
This is a summary of the year 2013 in the Canadian music industry.
- January 9 – Adam Gontier, lead singer of the Canadian rock band Three Days Grace, resigns from the band, citing health concerns.[1]
- February 5 – Silverstein releases their first album with Paul Marc Rousseau as an official member.
- March 10 – 2013 East Coast Music Awards
- April 17 – Steve Jocz, drummer for Sum 41, resigns from the band.
- April 21 – Juno Awards of 2013
- May 25 – Online streaming service CBC Music sponsors the first CBC Music Festival at Ontario Place's new Echo Beach music venue.[2]
- June 13 – Preliminary longlist for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize is announced.
- July 10 – Mo Kenney and Keith Kouna are named the English and French winners of the 2013 SOCAN Songwriting Prize.
- July 16 – Shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize is announced.
- September 23 – Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! is announced as the winner of the Polaris Music Prize.[3]
A
B
- Jason Bajada, Le résultat de mes bétises
- Alexis Baro, Blue Skin[5]
- Jill Barber, Chansons – January 29
- The Beaches, The Beaches
- Bear Mountain, XO
- Daniel Bélanger, Chic de ville – March 5
- The Besnard Lakes, Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO
- The Bicycles, Stop Thinking So Much
- Justin Bieber, Believe Acoustic – January 29
- Bleu Jeans Bleu, Haute couture
- Born Ruffians, Birthmarks – April 16[6]
- Basia Bulat, Tall Tall Shadow – September 30
- Louise Burns, The Midnight Mass – July 9[7]
C
- Chic Gamine, Closer
- City and Colour, The Hurry and the Harm, June 4
- Classified, Classified – January 22
- The Cliks, Black Tie Elevator[8]
- Corridor, Un magicien en toi
- Counterparts, The Difference Between Hell and Home – July 24
- The Courtneys, The Courtneys – June 7
- Eliana Cuevas, Espejo
D
- Thomas D'Arcy, What We Want
- The Deep Dark Woods, Jubilee
- Devours, Dignity
- DIANA, Perpetual Surrender
- Céline Dion, Loved Me Back to Life
E
- Fred Eaglesmith, Tambourine
- Elephant Stone, Elephant Stone
F
- Stephen Fearing, Between Hurricanes
- Michael Feuerstack, Tambourine Death Bed – May 7[9]
- Fresh Snow, I[10]
- Front Line Assembly, Echogenetic – July 9
- Fur Trade, Don't Get Heavy
G
- Ghostkeeper, Horse Chief! War Thief!
- Grand Analog, Modern Thunder, August 20
- The Grapes of Wrath, High Road – March 19[11]
- Jim Guthrie, Takes Time – May 7[12]
H
- Hayden, Us Alone – February 5[13]
- Headstones, Love + Fury – July 23
- The Hidden Cameras, Age[14]
- Hilotrons, At Least There's Commotion – February 5[15]
- Hollerado, White Paint
- Hooded Fang, Gravez
I
- Imaginary Cities, Fall of Romance – May 28[16]
K
- k-os, BLack on BLonde – January 29[17]
- Ian Kelly, All These Lines – November 5
- Koriass, Rue des Saules
- Keith Kouna, Le voyage d’hiver
- Aidan Knight, Telecommunicate
- Nicholas Krgovich, Who Cares?[18]
L
- Mélissa Laveaux, Dying Is a Wild Night
- Avril Lavigne, Avril Lavigne
- Lee Harvey Osmond, The Folk Sinner – January 15[19]
- Light Fires, Light Fires
- Murray Lightburn, Mass:Light
- Lightning Dust, Fantasy
- Rob Lutes, The Bravest Birds
M
- Greg MacPherson, Fireball – October 29[20]
- Maestro Fresh Wes, Orchestrated Noise – June 25
- Magneta Lane, Witchrock – February 12[21]
- Majical Cloudz, Impersonator – May 21
- Dylan Menzie, Heather Avenue
- Millimetrik, Remix the Rhymes
- Ruth Moody, These Wilder Things
N
- Naturally Born Strangers, The LegendsLeague Presents: Naturally Born Strangers
- New Country Rehab, Ghost of Your Charms – March 5[22]
- The New Mendicants, Australia 2013 E.P.
O
- Odds, the Most Beautiful Place on Earth – February 21[23]
P
- Dorothea Paas, A Thirst
R
- Corin Raymond, Paper Nickels
- Lee Reed and John P, Written Large
- Amanda Rheaume, Keep a Fire
- Daniel Romano, Come Cry With Me – January 22[24]
- Justin Rutledge, Valleyheart – February 12[25]
S
- The Sadies, Internal Sounds – September 17[26]
- Sarahmée, Sans détour
- Ron Sexsmith, Forever Endeavour
- Shad, Flying Colours – October 15[27]
- Shotgun Jimmie, Everything Everything
- Silverstein, This Is How the Wind Shifts – February 5
- Skinny Puppy, Weapon – May 28
- SNFU, Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You – October 24
- Rae Spoon, My Prairie Home
- The Strumbellas, We Still Move on Dance Floors – October 22[28]
- Suuns, Images du futur
- Swollen Members, Beautiful Death Machine – March 19
T
- Tegan and Sara, Heartthrob – January 29[29]
- Tire le coyote, Mitan
- Maylee Todd, Escapology, April 2
- A Tribe Called Red, Nation II Nation
- Two Hours Traffic, Foolish Blood
V
- Diyet van Lieshout, When You Were King
- Various Artists, Arts & Crafts: 2003–2013
- Various Artists, Arts & Crafts: X – May 28[30]
- Leif Vollebekk, North Americana
- Lindy Vopnfjörð, Young Waverer
W
- Martha Wainwright, Trauma: Chansons de la serie tele Saison 4 – February 26
- Wake Owl, Wild Country – January 29
- Dawn Tyler Watson and Paul Deslauriers, Southland
- Whitehorse, The Road to Massey Hall – February 15[31]
- Woodpigeon, Thumbtacks + Glue
- Donovan Woods, Don't Get Too Grand – March 26[32]
Y
- Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, UZU
- Ken Yates, twenty-three
- Young Galaxy, Ultramarine
The lists are updated weekly through Nielsen Soundscan.
Top 10 Canadian albums
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| Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position |
Sales | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Celine Dion | Loved Me Back to Life | 1 | 320,000 | 4× Platinum[33] |
| 2 | Arcade Fire | Reflektor | 1 | 240,000[34][35] | 3× Platinum[36] |
| 3 | Johnny Reid | A Christmas Gift to You | 1 | 160,000[34] | 2× Platinum[37] |
| 4 | Michael Bublé | To Be Loved | 1 | 160,000[38] | 2× Platinum[39] |
| 5 | Drake | Nothing Was the Same | 1 | 108,000[34] | Platinum[40] |
| 6 | City and Colour | The Hurry and the Harm | 1 | 80,000[34][41] | Platinum[42] |
| 7 | Gord Bamford | Christmas in Canada | TBA | 80,000 | Platinum[43] |
| 8 | Hedley | Wild Life | 4 | 80,000[34] | Platinum[44] |
| 9 | Justin Bieber | Believe Acoustic | 1 | 80,000 | Platinum[45] |
| 10 | Various Artists | MuchDance 2014 | N/A | 80,000 | Platinum[46] |
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Top 10 International albums
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| Rank | Artist | Album | Peak position |
Sales | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eminem | The Marshall Mathers LP 2 | 1 | 320,000[34][47] | 4× Platinum[48] |
| 2 | Various Artists | Frozen | 1 | 240,000[49][50] | 3× Platinum[51] |
| 3 | Justin Timberlake | The 20/20 Experience | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum[52] |
| 4 | Katy Perry | Prism | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum[53] |
| 5 | Lorde | Pure Heroine | 2 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum[54] |
| 6 | Luke Bryan | Crash My Party | 1 | 160,000 | 2× Platinum[55] |
| 7 | Avicii | True | 2 | 80,000 | Platinum[56] |
| 8 | The Beatles | On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 | TBA | 80,000 | Platinum[57] |
| 9 | Beyoncé | Beyoncé | 1 | 80,000 | Platinum[58] |
| 10 | Black Sabbath | 13 | 1 | 80,000 | Platinum[59] |
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Top 10 singles
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| Rank | Artist | Song | Album | Peak position |
Sales | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell | "Blurred Lines" | Blurred Lines | 1 | 720,000[34][60][61] | 9× Platinum[62] |
| 2 | Pitbull featuring Kesha | "Timber" | Meltdown | 1 | 560,000 | 7× Platinum[63] |
| 3 | Avicii | "Wake Me Up" | True | 2 | 523,000[34] | Platinum[64] |
| 4 | A Great Big World | "Say Something (A Great Big World song)" | Is There Anybody Out There? | 1 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum[65] |
| 5 | Pink featuring Nate Ruess | "Just Give Me a Reason" | The Truth About Love | 1 | 499,000[34] | 6× Platinum[66] |
| 6 | Lorde | "Royals" | Pure Heroine | 1 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum[67] |
| 7 | OneRepublic | "Counting Stars" | Native | 1 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum[68] |
| 8 | Passenger | "Let Her Go" | All the Little Lights | 5 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum[69] |
| 9 | Pharrell Williams | "Happy" | G I R L | 1 | 480,000 | 6× Platinum[70] |
| 10 | Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams | "Get Lucky" | Random Access Memories | 1 | 400,000 | 5× Platinum[71] |
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Canadian Hot 100 Year-End List
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- January 7 – Kent Abbott, 32, rock musician (Grade)[73]
- January 15 – Yuli Turovsky, 73, Russian-born conductor and cellist (I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra)[74]
- January 25 – Normand Corbeil, 56, composer[75]
- March 6 – Stompin' Tom Connors, 77, country singer-songwriter[76]
- April 16 – Rita MacNeil, 68, country and folk singer-songwriter[77]
- April 17 – George Beverly Shea, 104, gospel musician[78]
- May 5 – Greg Quill, 66, Australian-born musician and music critic for the Toronto Star[79]
- May 8 – Bill Langstroth, 81, country music producer (Singalong Jubilee), inducted into Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame (2011).[80]
- June 2 – Mario Bernardi, 82, conductor of the National Arts Centre Orchestra[81]
- June 3 – Chris Levoir, 31, singer and guitarist for The Mark Inside[82]
- August 18 – Wes Dakus, 75, rock and rockabilly musician[83]
- "Further to our..." Facebook. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- CBC AT ECHO BEACH 2013 Archived 2013-06-09 at the Wayback Machine. Toro, May 23, 2013.
- "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Win Polaris Music Prize". Pitchfork, September 23, 2013.
- Errol Nazareth, "Not just Skin deep ; Alexis Baro's latest CD a tribute to Latin, Caribbean roots of jazz". Toronto Sun, January 11, 2013.
- "Born Ruffians Announce 'Birthmarks,' Map Out Canadian Tour". Exclaim!, January 22, 2013.
- "Louise Burns Unveils 'The Midnight Mass,' Premieres New Song". Exclaim!, April 18, 2013.
- Carla Gillis, "Fresh Snow: I". Now, August 15, 2013.
- "The Grapes of Wrath Return with 'High Road' LP". Exclaim!, February 12, 2013.
- "Jim Guthrie unveils 'The Rest is Yet to Come' from first LP in 10 years" Archived 2016-03-01 at the Wayback Machine. CBC Radio 3, March 4, 2013.
- "Hilotrons Return with New Album: 'At Least There's Commotion'". Exclaim!, October 19, 2012.
- Alex Hudson, "Nicholas Krgovich Releases New 'Who Cares?' LP". Exclaim!, November 18, 2013.
- "Lee Harvey Osmond 'The Folk Sinner' (album stream)" Archived 2013-01-13 at the Wayback Machine. Exclaim!, January 7, 2013.
- "Greg MacPherson Announces 'Fireball' LP, Maps Out Canadian Tour Dates" Archived 2013-12-02 at the Wayback Machine. Exclaim!, September 23, 2013.
- "Magneta Lane Return with 'Witchrock' EP". Exclaim!, January 9, 2013.
- "the Odds release new album 'the Most Beautiful Place on Earth, EP". Odds, February 23, 2013.
- "Daniel Romano Announces 'Come Cry with Me' LP, Shares New Track". Exclaim!, November 21, 2012.
- "Justin Rutledge Returns with 'Valleyheart'". Exclaim!, November 21, 2012.
- "The Strumbellas Reveal 'We Still Move on Dance Floors'". Exclaim!, September 12, 2013.
- "Tegan and Sara on upcoming album Heartthrob". CBC News, January 16, 2013.
- "Whitehorse Cover Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot on 'The Road to Massey Hall' Live EP" Archived 2013-02-02 at the Wayback Machine. Exclaim!, January 29, 2013.
- "Canada's Digital Music Sales Rise in 2013 Unlike the U.S.; Eminem, Robin Thicke Among Top Selling Artists". Billboard. January 10, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
- Tuch, Paul (6 November 2013). "ARCADE FIRE SCORES THIRD CHART-TOPPING ALBUM" (PDF). Retrieved 13 November 2013.[permanent dead link]
- "Michael Buble's new album 'To be Loved' tops charts in Canada, U.S." Archived from the original on 2013-07-03. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
- "CELINE DION SCORES 13TH NUMBER ONE ALBUM" (PDF). November 13, 2013. Retrieved 2013-11-15.[permanent dead link]
- Cross, Alan (November 26, 2014). "Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 26 November 2014". A Journal of Musical Things. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
- Tuch, Paul (May 29, 2013). Daft Punk Score Their First Number One Album (PDF). Nielsen Company. Retrieved June 3, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-12. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
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- "Alternative Press | News | Grade/Somehow Hollow guitarist Kent Abbott passes away at age 32". Altpress.com. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
- "Montreal cellist Yuli Turovsky dies at 73 – Montreal – CBC News". Cbc.ca. 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2013-01-16.
- Video game, TV composer Normand Corbeil dies Archived 2013-01-31 at the Wayback Machine. msn.com, January 28, 2013.
- "Stompin’ Tom Connors dies at age 77". Toronto Star, March 6, 2013.
- George Beverly Shea dies; sang with Billy Graham. USA Today, April 17, 2013.
- Country music producer Bill Langstroth dies at 81 Archived March 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Yahoo! News Canada, May 8, 2013.
- "NAC Orchestra founding conductor Mario Bernardi dies". CBC News, June 3, 2013.
- The Mark Inside’s Chris Levoir dead at 31, cause as yet unknown Archived 2013-06-15 at archive.today. National Post, June 3, 2013.
- "Musician Wes Dakus was Edmonton’s answer to Elvis". The Globe and Mail, October 25, 2013.
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