Random music news for Friday, July 26, 2024
Who has the fastest internet speed in Canada? Here are the answers. Let’s try some music news for July 26, 2024.
- This guy seems to forget that the Canadian radio industry is still a powerful force for spreading the word on music and for paying out performance rights royalties to musicians young and old.
- Diddy is named 77 times by prosecutors in a document on the murder of Tupac.
- Breakdancing (or “breaking” in today’s parlance) is now an Olympic sport. Here’s how it will be scored.
- If you’re into protest music and the concept of music and democracy-especially if you’re watching the US presidential election–you might find this article interesting.
- Amazon isn’t happy about how most people are using their Alexa devices. I can see why.
- Apple Music has some new requirements for artists wishing to upload songs to the platform.
- Do the music charts still matter in the era of streaming? That’s a big debate in the industry right now.
- What’s Quicket? A ticketseller in Africa. It was just bought by Ticketmaster.
- A Billie Eilish VR workout? Sort of, yes.
- This is interesting: One of the countries where vinyl has really taken off is Indonesia. Here’s why.
- This maybe the most cynically realistic comment I’ve ever heard from a musicians.
- There’s a new Taylor Swift colouring and activity book.
- I love Lamborghinis, but why would they put the radio there?
- There be crime in K-pop.
- Cher is planning a two-part memoir.
BONUS: This. This record store in South Korea.
I was reading about the Amazon Alexa and how much they have lost from selling it…about $25 Billion. I can see why they are concerned.
As for the record store in South Korea…DANG!!! I want to spend time there!