Album Sales by Genre 

Canadian Artists Canadian Album

in Canada (2002)

Certification Awards (CRIA)

Other 30%

Rock 23%

Gold

Platinum

Diamond

Total

Artists

1999

28

41

3

72

60

Soundtrack  

2000

29

30

2

61

52

2%

2001

24

24

1

49

40

2002

35

35

1

71

58

2003

27

14

1

42

40

Source: PCH compilation of CRIA data.

Note: Only the highest certification given to an album 

in a given year is included.

R&B 3%

Pop 18%

Jazz 3%

Country 6%

Platinum and multi platinum albums, 

Classical 4%

Hip Hop 6%

World 5%

for sales of more than 100,000 units,

Source: IFPI Recording Industry in Numbers, 2003.

went to such artists as Diana Krall (Live

in Paris), Michael Buble (Michael Buble),

Bruno Pelletier (Concert de Noel) and Sam

Gold and Platinum 

Roberts (We Were Born in a Flame), 

Records and Other CRIA

as well as to such compilations as Star

Certifications Statistics

Academie and Oh Canada A Canadian

Canadian artists were awarded a total of 

Celebration.

42 album certifications in 2003 by CRIA,

down significantly from 71 such awards in

Gold albums, awarded for sales of 

2002. The 2003 awards included 27 gold,

50,000 units, went to La Chicane

6 platinum, 8 multi platinum and one 

(Ent'Nous Autres), Chantal Kreviazuk

diamond album. This last award went to

(What If It All Means Something), Billy

Avril Lavigne for Let Go, which has sold

Talent (Billy Talent) and Nicola Ciccone

more than a million copies. 

(J't'aime tout court), among others.

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