Time for another weekly report on Canadian CD and vinyl sales (30 Apr 2026)
Luminate keeps us up to date on how CDs and vinyl are selling. They also look at streaming stats, too. Here’s the latest. Streaming numbers:
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Just announced: Live Nation’s annual $30 concert ticket sale
Live Nation is the world’s biggest concert promoter. The company also owns a number of amphitheatres. The company’s job is to fill as many of those seats with bums as they possibly can.
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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 being shaken by the actions of a growing group of companies which are
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Ongoing History Daily: The first record made of samples
Today, sampling is a common practice governed by a myriad of legalities and limited by only your imagination and the technology at our disposal. But back in the 1950s, there were no laws
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Random music news for Thursday, April 30, 2026
A movie ticket that costs $50? Yeah. Moving to music news for April 30, 2026… BONUS: Slipknot has a new partnership involving a short film for Gucci. Wait–what?
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This new organization wants to promote high-quality recycled vinyl
Vinyl records are forever. Throw out a 45 or LP, and it’ll sit in a landfill until the Sun goes nova. And now that vinyl is almost in its third decade of resurrection,
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Was the WHCD “assassination” attempt faked? The Iranian LEGO video people do.
It took about 17 seconds for people to start calling the WHCD assassination attempt fake, a false flag, and staged. And damn, the internet has exploded with stories and “proof.” It was another
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The 21-year-old Austrian who plotted to “kill as many people as possible” at a Taylor Swift concert has pleaded guilty
Back in August 2024 when Taylor Swift’s Eras tour was in full swing, three-sold out shows in Vienna had to be canceled. Local authorities had received credible information from US intelligence that someone
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Spotify had another good quarter. It now has over a 760 million monthly users.
Spotify says that 293 million people around the world subscribe to its Premium Subscriber tier, which is up by more than three million from the last quarter. The biggest market for subscriptions is
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Ongoing History Daily: How Billy Idol got his name
Billy Idol’s real name is William Broad. So where did “Billy Idol” come from? There are two parts to the story. First of all, he was a terrible student in school and was
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Was that Trump assassination attempt real or staged? You can probably guess what the internet thinks. Music news for April 29, 2026, on the other hand, is 100% real. BONUS: A robot prostate
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