Year-End Music Data from Twitter Canada

With three weeks to go in the year, it’s time to start looking back on the general zeitgeist of 2016. Twitter offers this year-end data for Canada regarding who and what was popular since January. After you sort through the #thishappened blog post, take a look at the following.

Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) joined Katy Perry in having more than 90 million followers.

Drake (@drake) has 30 milllion.

These are the musicians with the most Twitter mentions:

1. Justin Bieber (@justinbieber)
2. Shawn Mendes (@ShawnMendes)
3. Drake (@Drake)
4. Sebastian Olzanski (@sebtsb)
5. The Weeknd (@theweeknd)
6. Alessia Cara (@AlessiaCara)
7. Deadmau5 (@deadmau5)
8. Celine Dion (@CelineDion)
9. Carly Rae Jepsen (@CarlyRaeJepsen)
10. Simple Plan (@SimplePlan)

And the most-retweeted music tweet was also the second-most retweeted tweet of the year. (Wow. What an awkward sentence.)

#VIEWS Tracklist pic.twitter.com/6KLbbgzFSm

— Drizzy (@Drake) April 27, 2016

The Financial Post has more data here.