There are several Canadian artists celebrated on a new list of the 250 greatest songs of the 21st century, including B.C.’s own Carly Rae Jepsen.
Rolling Stone magazine placed the singer-songwriter’s “Call Me Maybe” at number 42, describing the massively popular single as a “sugar-rush hit” and “modern-day wedding-reception standard.”
The 2011 song topped the charts in more than a dozen countries—including Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.—and has been listened to approximately 3.6 billion times between Spotify and YouTube alone.
According to Rolling Stone, the song also helped usher in an era of music “engineered to cater to TikTok dance trends and social media-driven pop virality that we’ve been living in for the past dozen years.”
Other notable Canadians on the top 50 include Drake—who appears twice, with “Hotline Bling” at 17 and “Hold On, We’re Going Home” at 43—and The Weeknd, whose “Blinding Lights” ranked 41.
“Anthem for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” by Toronto’s Broken Social Scene ranked 90, while “Letter From an Occupant” by Vancouver super group The New Pornographers ranked 108.
Jepsen, who was raised in the Lower Mainland community of Mission, is currently celebrating the 10th anniversary of her 2015 album Emotion, which was ranked in the top 50 albums of the 2010s by Rolling Stone, Billboard and Pitchfork.
