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As ever, assessing Canada<\/a>\u2019s most successful artists reveals the age-old disconnect between critical acclaim and who sold album copies by the bucketload.<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy to revert to the Maple Country\u2019s lauded rock canon as figuring Canada\u2019s most rewarded musician. While towering figures of the US West Coast\u2019s counterculture, 1960s titans like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Leonard Cohen all sold records in the millions, but don\u2019t even orbit the lofty top 100 global big sellers, despite their Rolling Stone stature.<\/p>\n Boasting mammoth sales for specific albums, neither Alanis Morissette nor Shania Twain\u2014yes, the twangy country pop sensation actually hails from Ontario\u2014escapes the lowly end of the million-sellers, even though the respective Jagged Little Pill is Canada\u2019s second most successful album, and Come on Over still stands strong as the seventh of all time worldwide.<\/p>\n For the country\u2019s second and third place, we have to stay put in 21st-century pop. Justin Bieber wins bronze with over 150million claimed sales, coasting through the often uneasy transition from child star to adult big name with commercial ease following 2009\u2019s My World EP. Only topped by Eminem<\/a> in the hip-hop world, rapper Drake comes in second place with an extra 20m sales on top of Bieber, one of contemporary music\u2019s most phenomenal popular artists, and certified as the 20th biggest selling of all time.<\/p>\n Yet, for Canada\u2019s all-time record, we have to step into a realm far removed from good taste but showered with mountainous levels of album sales that the country\u2019s not likely ever to witness again.<\/p>\n So, who is the best-selling Canadian artist?<\/p>\n In at number one with no contest, Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s \u2018Queen of the Power Ballads\u2019 C\u00e9line Dion towers over all Canadian competition, with a rock solid over 150m certified unit sales, enjoying the lofty milestone of the 18th biggest selling artist of all time ever.<\/p>\n A national star across the 1980s with a string of French-language records, Dion reached international attention with her 1988 Eurovision Song Contest winner \u2018Ne partez pas sans moi\u2019. Before long, she swiftly found enormous success in the ghastly adult-contemporary world. Winning a Grammy Award for her title track to Disney\u2019s Beauty and the Beast in 1991, Dion seemed to enjoy King Midas\u2019 touch; every single and album dropped across the next few years, hammering both Canada\u2019s Records, Promotion, music charts as well as the coveted Billboard Hot 100 and 200 albums ranking.<\/p>\n Not content with smashing records with 1996\u2019s Falling into You, pushed to every mum\u2019s CD collection by the glossy \u2018It\u2019s All Coming Back to Me Now\u2019 written by Meat Loaf partner Jim Steinman, Dion entered a whole new level of radio and TV ubiquity with the following year\u2019s \u2018My Heart Will Go On\u2019 for James Cameron\u2019s Titanic melodrama. A glossy yodeller that no one could escape, pushing both its associated soundtrack album<\/a> and Dion\u2019s Let\u2019s Talk About Love to further record sales, it was the second biggest selling single by a female artist ever, behind Whitney Houston\u2019s equally wincing \u2018I Will Always Love You\u2019 cover.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri 10 October 2025 23:00, UK As ever, assessing Canada\u2019s most successful artists reveals the age-old disconnect between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,22514,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-205006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celine-dion","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}