Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 21 Nov 2022
With just a few short weeks left in the year, we’re getting an idea of how the recording music industry
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Music Industry
What’s the latest on the Taylor Swift-Ticketmaster situation? A fight with Motley Crue and a rise in scams
There’s still plenty of fallout from Ticketmaster’s attempt to sell millions of Taylor Swift tickets to billions of Taylor Swift
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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)
[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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Songs were already getting shorter because of streaming. TikTok is accelerating that.
A few years ago, a couple of artists realized that shorter songs could equal more streams. Take Lil Nas X
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Taylor Swift fans see conspiracies in the Ticketmaster Eras fiasco
Swifties have declared war on Ticketmaster. They couldn’t get tickets to the Eras tour, so they’re looking for someone or
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People who are calling for the break-up of Ticketmaster over the Taylor Swift fiasco are COMPLETELY missing the point
After millions of Swifties succeeded in crashing Ticketmaster’s servers, the company has postponed the general on-sale of tickets for her
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How are most people getting their music these days? You have one guess.
A new study by the International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry (the global group representing the interests of the recorded
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What happened with Ticketmaster and the Taylor Swift tour pre-sale?
Ticketmaster’s nuclear-attack-level ticket-selling infrastructure was taken down Tuesday (Nov 15) when millions of Taylor Swift fans tried to get tickets
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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 14 November 2022
As the recorded music industry barrels towards the end of its fiscal year, will things equal or exceed where things
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How much more can the music streaming business grow? Well…
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Back in September at a music conference in Singapore, Sir Lucian
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First Twitter laid off half the company. Now it’s Meta’s turn to can THOUSANDS.
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t doing well with investors and analysts these days. Revenues are cratering, the stock price is falling, and
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