Celine Tops 2007 Year End Chart in Canada

January 5, 2008 at 05:34 AM

-- Celine Dion was the biggest selling artist with album sales

surpassing 560,000 in 2007.

-- Consistent with a year ago, the top two selling artists in

Canada during the SoundScan era are both native Canadians;

Celine Dion (6.8 million albums sold) and Shania Twain (4.2

million albums sold).

-- These same two artists continue to have the biggest selling

albums for Canada in the SoundScan era; Shania Twain's "Come

On Over" album has sold 1.9 million units and Celine Dion's

"Let's Talk about Love" album has reached 1.5 million sales.

And Taking Chances sold 301,000 copies in Canada. It's the #3 best selling album in 2007.

:groupwave:

2007 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS 2007 TOP TEN SELLING
ARTISTS
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(01/01/2007-12/30/2007) (based on Album sales
from 01/01/2007-
12/30/2007)

Title/Artist Units Sold Artist Units
Sold
--------------------------- ---------- ------------- -------

1 Noel/ Josh Groban 380,000 1 Celine Dion 568,000
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2 Call Me Irresponsible/ 304,000 2 Josh Groban 498,000
Michael Buble
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3 Taking Chances/ Celine Dion 301,000 3 Michael Buble 471,000
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4 Best Damn Thing/ Avril 279,000 4 Bon Jovi 343,000
Lavigne
---------------------------
5 Lost Highway/ Bon Jovi 246,000 5 Avril Lavigne 320,000
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6 Good Girl Gone Bad/ Rihanna 232,000 6 Rihanna 267,000
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7 Duos Dubois/ Dubois Claude 224,000 7 Johnny Cash 247,000
Et Les Plus...
---------------------------
8 FutureSex/LoveSounds/ 221,000 8 Linkin Park 245,000
Justin Timberlake
---------------------------
9 Timbaland Presents Shock 218,000 9 Justin 229,000
Value/ Timbaland Timberlake
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10. Minutes to Midnight/ Linkin 195,000 10. Dubois Claude 224,000
Park Et Les Plus
Gran
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2007 TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS OF
OF SOUNDSCAN ERA SOUNDSCAN ERA
----------------------------- -----------------------------
(1995 - 12/30/2007) (1995 - 12/30/2007)

Title/Artist Units Artist Units
Sold Sold
------------------- --------- ------------------- ---------
Come on Over/ 1,920,000 1 Celine Dion 6,793,000
1 Shania Twain
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Let's Talk About 1,487,000 2 Shania Twain 4,207,000
2 Love/ Celine Dion
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Big Shiny Tunes 2/ 1,233,000 3 Backstreet Boys 4,081,000
3 Various Artists
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Romanza/ Andrea 1,116,000 4 U2 3,343,000
4 Bocelli
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5 Up!/ Shania Twain 1,088,000 5 Sarah McLachlan 2,978,000
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6 Aquarium/ Aqua 1,083,000 6 Eminem 2,898,000
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Millennium/ 1,072,000 7 Beatles 2,862,000
7 Backstreet Boys
-------------------
Surfacing/ Sarah 1,071,000 8 Andrea Bocelli 2,676,000
8 McLachlan
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9 Beatles 1/ Beatles 1,060,000 9 Diana Krall 2,604,000
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Backstreet's Back/ 1,048,000 10. Britney Spears 2,484,000
10. Backstreet Boys
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