Random music news for Tuesday, December 10, 2019
The first-ever Nobel Prize ceremony was held on this day in 1901. Now let’s try some music news for December 10, 2019.
- Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson has died at age 61 after a 17 year fight with brain cancer.
- Weekly Canadian music sales and stream stats vs, where things were a year ago: Total albums, -23.3%; CD sales, -25.7%, digital albums, -24.4%; digital tracks, -28.3%; vinyl LPs, +2.2%; on-demand audio streams, +32.8% (1.608 billion streams in the country last week).
- Oh, and for those with a cassette fetish, a total of 6,700 pre-recorded cassettes have been sold for the entire year across the country. And that’s a drop of 10.7% from last year. There is no “cassette revival” in this country,
- It seems that there’s a lot more to the death of rapper Juice WRLD still to come out. Guns. Weed. Percocet.
- Dave Grohl pounds beers. Not that this is unusual, of course.
- If you’re a musician, here’s a look back at some of the most important new gear of the 2010s.
- That stolen Randy Rhoads gear? It was found in a North Hollywood dumpster.
- Canadians can’t get Pandora, but here’s the platform’s picks for the top 100 songs of the 2010s just the same.
- Listening bars: I really like this idea. Hell, I’d be a regular if there was one near me.
- Why do the Spotify and Apple Music Awards really exist? Here’s an explanation.
- Another explanation: The correct history of music streaming.
- Billie Eilish got a USD$25 million deal for an Apple TV+ documentary. Wow.
- Remember The Long Tail theory once embraced by the music industry? Yeah, about that…
- Gift ideas: The best headphones, speakers, and turntables of 2019.
- Beatles fans are gonna go nuts over this incredible collectible.
- Beethoven left behind an unfinished symphony. Now an algorithm is going to complete it.
- Katy Perry is fighting back hard against a ridiculous plagiarism claim. Good.
- A Bowie-themed planetarium show? Makes sense.
