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Canada has only produced one song to hit the US Billboard No. 1 song. That was "Call Me Maybe". Canadian English music has been ascendant in the 21st century, ever since proper recording studios were established in Toronto. Vancouver has an okay group of music studios as early as 1970 (Chilliwack was one of the first bands to record in Little Mountain Studio) but the first real album that signaled Toronto had turned the corner¹ was Blue Rodeo's 1993 album, "Five Days In July".
¹ And by corner, I mean saying that it had a working studio that was as good as Hollywood, New York, Nashville, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Tokyo and London.
Had to google this, it's incorrect. It was the first to hit the US Billboard #1 since Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend in 2007.