Canadian Contemporary R&B
Canadian contemporary R&B is modern R&B made by artists from Canada, known especially for the moody, atmospheric sound that came out of Toronto around 2010.
The Toronto strand is slow and spacious, with muffled drums, deep bass, heavy reverb and soft singing over reflective, often hedonistic lyrics. It took shape in the late 2000s and early 2010s alongside the city's hip hop, and the two share producers and a habit of blurring singing and rapping. Not every Canadian R&B singer works in that style, so the label marks where the artists are from more than one fixed sound.
Artists it is known for: The Weeknd, Daniel Caesar, PartyNextDoor.
- Family
- R&B & Soul
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Toronto, Canada, late 2000s
- Also called
- canadian r&b
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 28%
About 23,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have canadian contemporary r&b among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Canadian Contemporary R&B artists
The Weeknd
Daniel Caesar
WizTheMc
Majid Jordan
Alessia Cara
Ruth B.
Jessie Reyez
Roy WoodsThe canadian contemporary r&b artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.