Tate McRae Housewife tops the Canadian Hot 100 this week, holding the number one song in Canada for the chart week of November 14, 2026. The single, released in October as the lead single from her upcoming fourth studio album, now owns the summit at home as well as abroad.
The Canadian result completes a chart picture that has been building for a month. Housewife held number one on both Billboard global rankings, the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S., for a second consecutive week on the chart dated November 7, collecting 64.1 million streams worldwide in the October 23 to 29 tracking week, a 15 percent increase on the week before. iimiTV tracked that global run in Tate McRae Tops Global Charts. The Billboard Canadian Hot 100, compiled from Canadian streaming, radio and sales, now lists Housewife as the country’s current number one song.
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Tate McRae Housewife and the Canadian Hot 100 summit
The homegrown detail matters here. McRae is a Calgary singer whose song is not simply visiting the Canadian chart on the strength of a global wave. On the daily streaming charts that feed the weekly rankings, Housewife sits at number one in Canada on both Spotify and Apple Music, and chart trackers count nine chart weeks at the top of the Canadian streaming lists. A Canadian artist leading the Canadian Hot 100 with a song that is also the biggest song in the world is a rare alignment, and it is the centre of this story.
Housewife is McRae’s second song to lead both Billboard global charts, following Greedy in 2023 and 2024. That earlier run announced her as a global pop act. This one is doing something different: it is the launch single of a new album era, which means the chart summit arrives at the start of a cycle rather than as its peak.
A fourth album era opens at number one
Housewife arrived in October 2026 as the lead single from McRae’s upcoming fourth studio album, following So Close To What, the third album that topped the Billboard 200 in February 2025 and produced the deluxe edition So Close To What??? later that year. Opening a new era with a song that tops the Global 200, the Global Excl. U.S. chart and now the Canadian Hot 100 gives the album a running start few Canadian pop releases have ever had.
The performance side has fed the numbers. Her Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show performance of Housewife this fall put the single in front of a global television audience, and the song’s streaming totals climbed the following week rather than cooling. Songs that spike on a show usually fall back. Housewife gained 15 percent in its second global week at number one.
What the Canadian number one means
For Canadian pop, the chart is a marker of where the centre of gravity sits right now. The Canadian Hot 100 has had 223 different number one songs in its history, and the current one belongs to a 23 year old from Calgary whose last album cycle also produced a Billboard 200 number one. The fourth album has no announced title or date yet. Its lead single has already done the hardest part of the job, arriving at number one in Canada and staying there.
