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Music Industry

Music Industry 

How has live music exploded in 2022? Let me tell you.

August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concerts, Festivals, Live Nation, Quarterly Report, Variety

Recession? What recession? Live Nation announced second-quarter results this week and reported a 40% increase in revenue, not from the

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Music Industry 

Which acts made the most money from touring over the last 40 years? Here’s a chart.

August 3, 2022August 4, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Grosses, Concert Ticket Sales, Dave Matthews, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, U2

Pollstar has been the bible of the touring music industry for four decades now, keeping track of such things as

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Music Industry 

Is TikTok planning to launch a streaming music app? If so, it would be a monster.

August 3, 2022August 4, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments ByteDance, Resso, Spotify, Streaming Music, TikTok

TikTok has become monstrously important to the music industry over the last couple of years as users of the platform

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 01 August 2022

August 1, 2022August 2, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canadian, Canadian music sales, Luminate, Streaming

Seven months down, five months to go. Here’s where things stand with the Canadian recorded music industry as we head

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Music Industry 

This guy says he has a solution to copyright infringement on YouTube

July 31, 2022July 31, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Copyright, Infringement, MrBeast, Takedown, YouTube

If you post music-related material on YouTube, it’s possible that you’ve had the indignity of having your content taken down

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Music Industry 

Here’s a running list of artists who have sold some or all of their song catalogues to a new breed of company. (Updated as required)

July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 Alan Cross 21 Comments Catalog Sales, Catalogue Sales, Concord, Eldridge, Hipgnosis, Primary Wave, Publishing, Round Hill

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

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 25 July 2022

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canadian, Luminate, Music sales, Streaming Stats

More than halfway through the year already. Here’s what’s happening with the Canadian recorded music industry starting with comparing last

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Music Industry Opinion 

What’s wrong with today’s music? Could it be that it’s just not very good?

July 25, 2022July 26, 2022 Alan Cross 4 Comments

[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. The blowback has already begun–but hear me out. – AC] On warm summer nights,

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Music Industry 

Study: Young buyers of vinyl are serious about their obsession

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Gen Z, Report, Study, Vinyl

A music research firm called MusicWatch has released a study of young vinyl buyers in the US (i.e born 1989

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Music Industry 

Here’s an explanation of why concert tickets are so expensive this summer

July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 Alan Cross 4 Comments Concert Tickets, Facility Fees, Inflation, Service Fees

Just like the price of gas and the chaos at airports, the cost of concert tickets is a global issue.

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 18 July 2022

July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canadian, Luminate, Music, Sales, Stats

We’re at the point of the year when everything that needed to be out for summer is out. All that’s

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