Random music new for Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Making the move from Phuket to Singapore today. There was just enough time to compile music news for November 13, 2019.
- Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs. where things were at this time last year: Total album sales, -23.6%; CDs, -26.9%; digital albums, -23.2%; digital tracks, -28.1%; vinyl records, +1.1%; on-demand audio streams, +33.5% (1.525 billion streams in Canada last week.)
- One more thing: Cassette sales in Canada are down 9%. Only 6,100 cassettes have been sold all across Canada all year. Compare that to 4.1 million CDs and 714,200 LPs.
- Today is the fourth anniversary of the Bataclan massacre.
- Here are some picks for the 20 most annoying Christmas songs of all time.
- The world’s only guitar-shaped hotel is now open in Florida.
- K-pop is all sunshine and unicorns, right? Not really. In fact, there’s a real dark side. (Via Bobby)
- An Apple AR headset? Probably not until 2022.
- More R Kelly drama.
- The Internet Archive wants to digitize 100,000 vinyl records. The first 750 are available now.
- Instagram users now have a new music feature.
- A comprehensive universal music rights database? Yes, please.
- Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill Broadway musical is doing quite well at the box office so far.
- What’s going on behind the scenes at Spotify these days? Check this out.
- Who would slap Madonna?
- Are you a musician looking to improve your improvisation skills? Try this book.
- I’m sure the Rolling Stones appreciated this endorsement.
- Who would buy Rihanna’s cigarette butt?