The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page It is compiled every Wednesday by U. S. -based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS Airplay Chart. Nielsen SoundScan is an information system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett that tracks sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada Jam! is a Canadian website which covers entertainment news It is part of the CANOE online portal owned and operated by Quebecor through its Sun Canadian Online Explorer (commonly CANOE or Canoeca) is a bilingual online news and information site from Canada. The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the US-based music sales tracking company Nielsen SoundScan. Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections
The chart consists of 200 positions, however, Jam! only publishes the top 100 for the public. Unlike the case with its CD single equivalent (the Canadian Singles Chart), album sales are not declining as rapidly in Canada as CD singles are, and the Canadian Albums Chart remains the most reliable source for the most popular albums in Canada.