Blog: Idolator

The number of No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 by Canadians who aren't Céline Dion, Bryan Adams, or Nelly Furtado is smaller than you might think, especially since some of the aforementioned artists' songs had such deathless runs on the pop charts. (Those successes even overshadowed their own work; for example, I forgot that Adams' Sting/Rod Stewart collaboration was also a chart-topping hit.) So let's take a second to celebrate chart-topping Canadian content like Alannah Myles' "Black Velvet," which hit the Hot 100's top spot in March 1990 and was followed by, um, nothing [...]