List of Canadian Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2012

This is a list of singles that peaked in the top 10 of the Canadian Hot 100, an all-genre singles chart, during 2012. Flo Rida's "Good Feeling", and Maroon 5's "Payphone" were the longest-running top-ten singles of the year, spending twenty weeks in the tier. The former peaked at number two on the week ending January 28, 2012, and the latter peaked at number one for eight weeks beginning on the week ending June 2, 2012, becoming the longest-running number one song of the year. Following her death on February 11, 2012, singer Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" charted in the top ten on the week ending March 3, 2012 at number six. Such re-entries of catalog songs are rare as Billboard maintains a policy deeming songs ineligible to chart due to moving to the recurrent list after twenty weeks if ranking below number fifty. After Houston's death, however, an adjustment in this policy allowed catalog songs to re-enter the chart's upper half if sales and airplay activity merit inclusion, as was the case with "I Will Always Love You", which surged after the singer's death in digital sales and airplay.

Top-ten singles

 * Key
 * – indicates single's top 10 entry was also its Canadian Hot 100 debut
 * – indicates best performing song of the year
 * (#) – 2012 year-end top 10 single position and rank