The following is a list of musicians and musical groups from the Canadian province of Ontario.
List of Ontario musicians by genre
Uncategorised bands/musicians/singers/rappers
Alexisonfire – St. Catharines
Down With Webster – Toronto
Billy Talent – Mississauga
Bryan Adams – Kingston
Paul Anka – Ottawa
Eva Avila – Ottawa
Barenaked Ladies – Scarborough
Justin Bieber – London
Jully Black – Toronto
Blue Rodeo – Toronto
Broken Social Scene – Toronto
Cancer Bats – Toronto
Keshia Chanté – Ottawa
Bruce Cockburn – Ottawa
Deborah Cox – Toronto
Hugh Dillon – Kingston
Fefe Dobson – Scarborough
Saga (band) – Oakville
Drake – Toronto
The Weeknd – Scarborough
J. D. Fortune – Mississauga
Finger Eleven – Burlington
Sarah Harmer – Burlington
illScarlett – Mississauga
Kardinal Offishall – Scarborough/Toronto
James LaBrie – Penetanguishene
Avril Lavigne – Napanee
Gordon Lightfoot – Orillia
Lights – Timmins
Five Man Electrical Band – Ottawa
Little X – Toronto
Guy Lombardo – London
Brian Melo – Hamilton
Metric – Toronto
My Darkest Days – Toronto
Alanis Morissette – Ottawa
Joey Muha - Port Dover
Nelly Furtado – Forest Hill, Toronto
Our Lady Peace – Toronto
Peaches – Toronto
Protest The Hero – Whitby
Hail The Villain – Oshawa
Anastasia Rizikov – Toronto
Rush – Toronto
Paul Shaffer – Thunder Bay
Silverstein – Burlington
Skye Sweetnam – Bolton
Snow – Toronto
Sum 41 – Ajax
Three Days Grace – Toronto
The Tragically Hip – Kingston
Tokyo Police Club – Newmarket
Shania Twain – Windsor
Vanity – Niagara Falls
Tamia Washington – Windsor
Neil Young – Toronto
Joel Zimmerman (deadmau5) – Toronto
Vikas Kohli – Mississauga
Henry Lau – Toronto
Teenage Head – Hamilton
Magic! – Toronto
Andrew Cash
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
Charlie Angus and Grievous Angels
Fred Eaglesmith
Lost Dakotas
Ron Sexsmith
MegaCity Chorus
Edwin Orion Brownell
Glenn Gould
Country and country rock
Blue Rodeo
Catalina
Cowboy Junkies
Prairie Oyster
Skydiggers
Shania Twain
Tim Hicks
Deadmau5
Esthero
Kids on TV
Lesbians on Ecstasy
MSTRKRFT
Crystal Castles
AfroNubians
Beyond the Pale
Jaffa Road
Raghav
Bruce Cockburn
Kathleen Edwards
Stephen Fearing
Great Lake Swimmers
Emm Gryner
Sarah Harmer
Gordon Lightfoot
Dayna Manning
Loreena McKennitt
Moxy Früvous
Sierra Noble – born in Ottawa, Ontario
Ian North
National Velvet
Rhea's Obsession
Choclair
Dead Celebrity Status
Drake
Dream Warriors
Eternia
Get Loose Crew
JUST Me
K'naan
k-os
Kardinal Offishall
Kid Twist
Maestro
MC Shadow
Michie Mee
Saukrates
Broken Social Scene
By Divine Right
The Constantines
Dala
Fifth Column
Furnaceface
Hayden
The Hidden Cameras
Junior Boys
King Cobb Steelie
Lights
Metric
Old World Vulture
Republic of Safety
Rheostatics
Skydiggers
Ad·ver·sary
Antigen Shift
Ayria
Dandi Wind
Decoded Feedback
Digital Poodle
Dym
Epsilon Minus
Fractured
Liar's Rosebush
Malhavoc
Monster Voodoo Machine
Prospero
Vampire Rodents
Zombie Girl
John Alcorn
Sebastian Brown
Holly Cole
Molly Johnson
Lee Aaron
Adytum
Annihilator
Anvil
Cancer Bats
Eidolon
Exciter
Fuck The Facts
Helix
Infernäl Mäjesty
Kittie
Piledriver
Protest the Hero
Razor
Thine Eyes Bleed
Threat Signal
Woods of Ypres- Sault Ste. Marie
Paul Anka
Dalbello
Annette Ducharme
Deborah Cox
Fefe Dobson
Avril Lavigne
Martha and the Muffins
Amanda Marshall
Alanis Morissette
Alannah Myles
Jane Siberry
Justin Bieber
Candy Coated Killahz
Down With Webster
The 3tards
Alexisonfire
Armed and Hammered
Billy Talent
Bunchofuckingoofs
The Diodes
The Flatliners
The Forgotten Rebels
Jolly Tambourine Man
Moneen
The Secrets
Simply Saucer
Sum 41
Teenage Head
Treble Charger- Sault Ste. Marie
The Viletones
Fucked Up
Pup (band)
Rock and Alternative
The Argues
The Band
Barenaked Ladies
Bedouin Soundclash
Big Sugar
CANO
City and Colour
Change of Heart
Jason Englishman
Finger Eleven
Ronnie Hawkins
The Headstones
High Holy Days
Hollerado
I Mother Earth
Junkhouse
Graeme Kirkland
Daniel Lanois
Leslie Spit Treeo
The Lowest of the Low
Max Webster
Metric
Kim Mitchell
National Velvet
Mary Margaret O'Hara
Moist (Canadian band)
Our Lady Peace
Parachute Club
Project Wyze
The Pursuit of Happiness
Rough Trade
Rush
Saga (band)
Lorraine Segato
Sarah Slean
Steppenwolf
Skye Sweetnam
The Tea Party
The Johnson Report
Teenage Head
Three Days Grace
Toronto
Tokyo Police Club
The Tragically Hip
13 Engines
Triumph
Hawksley Workman
Neil Young
Toya Alexis
Bass is Base
Jully Black
Divine Brown
Jarvis Church
Jacksoul
Glenn Lewis
Billy Newton-Davis
The Philosopher Kings
Ivana Santilli
Musicians from Ontario with a #1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 hit include: from the 1970s: Neil Young with "Heart of Gold" in 1972, Gordon Lightfoot with "Sundown". From the 1990s: Alannah Myles with "Black Velvet", Bryan Adams (4 #1 hits) including "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", Snow (musician) with "Informer" in 1993, and Barenaked Ladies with "One Week" in 1998. From the 2000s: Nelly Furtado with "Promiscuous" in 2006 and "Say It Right", Avril Lavigne with "Girlfriend" in 2007. From the 2010s: Drake (rapper) with 3 #1 hits like "What's My Name? (Rihanna song)" and "One Dance", Magic! with "Rude" in 2014, The Weeknd with 3 #1's like "Can't Feel My Face" and "Starboy" in early 2017, and Justin Bieber with 3 #1 hits including "What Do You Mean?" in 2015 and "Sorry" in 2016. All are from Toronto, except Gordon Lightfoot, Bryan Adams, Avril Lavigne, and Justin Bieber. In addition, Alanis Morissette from Ottawa had 3 #1 albums on the U.S. Billboard 200 including Jagged Little Pill in 1995, and Shania Twain from Windsor had one #1 album with Up!.
Source: List of Billboard Hot 100 number-ones by Canadian artists
