Random music news for Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Off to Indonesia today. Let’s hope the monsoons hold off. Here’s what’s going on with music news for December 3, 2019.
- Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs. where things were at this time last year: Total album sales, -23.4%; CDs, -25.9%; digital albums, -24.2%; digital tracks, -28.3%; vinyl LPs, +1.5%; on-demand audio streams, +33.0% (1.581 billion streams in the country last week.)
- NOW, Toronto’s (money-losing) alternative weekly, has been sold for $2 million. The print editions stays.
- This Sunday saw an anniversary: 100 years of radio in Canada.
- Billie Eilish vs. Twitter re: Van Halen.
- But here comes Wolfgang to defend her in the whole Van Halen thing.
- The Mexican stop on the Slipknot/Evanescence tour turned into an actual riot…
- …and even though the mob burned down his drums, Evanescence’s Will Hunt though the rioters were “pack of pu@$ies.”
- Moist looks back on 25 years as a band.
- The Weeknd has a new gig (sort of) with Mercedes-Benz.
- Any guesses as to what are the most-visited websites in the world? Here’s the list.
- Flaming Lips weed. And yes, it’s high-potency.
- Not music-related but fun: A visualization of the top TV series from 1986 to 2019.
