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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats May 17, 2020

It was Juno Week in Canada, so there was plenty of promotion of music last week. Let’s see if it

Pink Floyd is one of the most successful acts in the history of recorded music. I don’t have an exact

[If you’re seeing this in your feed again, it’s because another deal has gone down. -AC] The music world is

This is JUNO Week in Toronto as the industry prepares for the first proper JUNO ceremony in three years. Traditionally,

If it’s Monday, it means that Luminate should have the weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats. These are the

Right on cue, Luminate, the company that watches over the sales and streaming progress of the Canadian recorded music industry,

US government has just released its latest “notorious markets list” which names countries that don’t do a lot to enforce

When Netflix stock cratered last week after the company revealed that it lost subscribers for the first time, some were

Right on schedule, Luminate, the watcher of what happens in the recorded music industry, issued its weekly summary of Canadian

A little post-Earth Day discussion: What’s better for the planet? Downloading songs or streaming them? Because each uses energy, there

Language is an ever-evolving thing that responds to changes in society. Take architecture, for example. There’s a slow movement to

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver