Random music news for Tuesday, March 17, 2020
With all this self-isolation, social distancing and teleworking going on, are we going to have a baby boom in the next 9-10 months? Just askin’. We can’t even hang around Tim Hortons anymore. Here’s music news for March 17, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: Lucian Grange, the head of Universal Music Group, the largest of the major labels, has tested positive. He’s in hospital.
- Coronavirus update 2: The Met in New York is going to stream operas for free.
- Coronavirus update 3: Taylor Swift: “Stay home!“
- Coronavirus update 4: The AC/DC song is now “Dirty Hands, Must Come Clean.”
- Corornavirus update 5: Radio in the time of pandemic.
- Coronavirus update 6: Kid Rock refuses to close his Nashville bar because he says that an order to do so is “unconstitutional.”
- Coronavirus update 7: How the coronavirus will affect the entertainment industries.
- Apple is killing it when it comes to selling wearable devices.
- Sony is really investing in podcasts. Why? Let’s find out.
- The daughter of hip-hop legend Eric B was hurt in a car accident.
- Here’s the latest list of the world’s most valuable records.
- Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs. where things were at this point last week: Total album sales, -28.3%; CDs, -30.3%; digital albums, -29.5%; digital tracks, -29.7%; vinyl, -10.4%; on-demand audio streams, +20.5% (1.671 billion streams in the country last week, another new record, I think.)
