Random music news for Thursday, January 2, 2020
Back to work yet? Or are you off until Monday? Regardless, you still need your daily dose of music news.
- Over 100 billion songs were streamed in 2019. It’s the first time streams have hit that number.
- Opera musicians stormed the Bastille.
- Vinyl had a great Christmas in the US, selling 1.22 million units in the week leading up to the holiday. That’s the biggest number since Nielsen started tracking things in 1991.
- The biggest vinyl sellers in the US this Christmas: Harry Styles (Fine Line), Billie Eilish (When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?), Beatles (Abbey Road), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1 and Queen (Greatest Hits).
- A great discussion of why DAB thrived in the UK and Europe and died in Canada.
- Sorry about this imagery.
- Liam Gallagher seems to be in a conciliatory mood these days. Could that help with an Oasis reunion?
- This year will mark the 100th anniversary of broadcast radio.
- Pop-up shows, anyone?
- Looking to kill time? Here’s an interesting sci-fi short story with a musical twist.
- At least one Australian musician has lost his home as a result of the wildfires.
- Another death in Whitney Houston’s orbit. Her daughter’s ex-fiance has died of an overdose.
- Surround-sound on the next generation of Macbooks? Maybe.
