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The Nielsen Company and Billboard’s 2009 Canadian Industry Report

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Business Wire
2/4/10

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nielsen SoundScan Canada, the entertainment industry’s data information system that tracks unit point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product, and Nielsen BDS, the music industry’s leading music performance monitoring service - which power the Billboard charts - have announced their 2009 Canadian calendar year sales and airplay monitoring data, for the 52-week period January 5, 2009 through January 3, 2010.

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2009 Canadian Year-End Factoids

Best Seller Factoids:
- Two native Canadian artists continue to hold the top two spots as the best selling artists in Canada during the Nielsen SoundScan era: Celine Dion (7.1 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 Nielsen 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 with 1.5 million sales.

BILLBOARD’S TOP TITLES & ARTISTS OF THE NIELSEN SOUNDSCAN ERA

BEST SELLING ALBUMS (from 1995 - 1/3/2010)
Title/Artist     Units Sold
1 Come On Over/ Shania Twain 1,926,000
2 Let’s Talk About Love/ Celine Dion 1,490,000
3 Big Shiny Tunes 2/ Various Artists 1,233,000
4 Romanza/ Andrea Bocelli 1,123,000
5 Beatles 1/ Beatles 1,103,000
6 Up!/ Shania Twain 1,092,000
7 Aquarium/ Aqua 1,086,000
8 Surfacing/ Sarah McLachlan 1,076,000
9 Millennium/ Backstreet Boys 1,073,000
10 Backstreet’s Back/ Backstreet Boys 1,048,000

BEST SELLING ARTISTS (based on album sales from 1995 – 1/3/2010)
Artist     Units Sold
1 Celine Dion 7,115,000
2 Shania Twain 4,245,000
3 Backstreet Boys 4,128,000
4 U2 3,641,000
5 Beatles 3,263,000
6 Sarah McLachlan 3,193,000
7 Eminem 3,171,000
8 Tragically Hip 3,056,000
9 Andrea Bocelli 3,034,000
10 Diana Krall 2,820,000

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