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“Bob Ezrin is an incredible producer,” he adds. I thought about it and really looked at the whole thing, outside of myself, and thought that ‘Wavin’ Flag’ does feel like the right thing for that so we got together 50 artists over a couple of days. “They thought that my song ‘Wavin’ Flag’ was the right feeling for this issue, this tragedy. “They had this idea that they wanted to do something lasting, that actually educates young people in Canada about Haiti and not let the fatigue of the subject wash over everybody and everybody just forget Haiti. “I got a call from Randy at Universal and Bob Ezrin,” K’naan tells Samaritanmag. Produced by Bob Ezrin, the man behind Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Kiss’s Destroyer and Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies, during the Vancouver Olympics last month at Bryan Adams’ studio, The Warehouse, the song features such artists as Avril Lavigne, Drake, Sam Roberts, Hedley’s Jacob Hoggard, Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley, Broken Social Scene, Nelly Furtado, Justin Bieber, Kardinal Offishall, Metric, Simple Plan’s Pierre Bouvier, Colin James, Tom Cochrane, Jully Black, and K’naan himself. 1 on the SoundScan Hot Digital Songs chart for the fourth week in a row and has sold 80,000 downloads to date, just under 20,000 of those this past week. Young Artists For Haiti, the Canadian collective of 50+ musicians which covered K’naan’s “Wavin’ Flag” to raise money for the victims of January’s devastating earthquake, remains at No.