Random music news for Tuesday, March 3, 2020
BOOM! Wow. Now back to earth for music news for March 3, 2020.
- Coronavirus update 1: BTS fans are donating their refunds from their canceled tour to coronavirus relief.
- Coronavirus update 2: What should the radio industry do about this whole thing?
- If you’re a drummer and had moving your kit, this might be a solution.
- Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs. this time last year: Total albums, -29.8%; CDs, -32%; digital albums, -30.7%; digital tracks, -29.6%; vinyl, -13.3%; on-demand audio streaming, +20.1% (1.614 billion streams in the country last year.)
- Spotify has a new way of targeting superfans. You’ll know if you’re one.
- Speaking of which, there’s more fake music on Spotify.
- We have firmly moved into the Age of the Artist. Here’s what that means.
- What the hell is this?
- An interesting thought experiment: What if YouTube had failed?
- This opinion piece makes some very good points about the Polaris Music Prize. It should be discussed.
- It’s good that more artists are talking about mental health. We need more of this.
- Now THAT was a cool Antiques Roadshow find…
- Deborah Dugan has been fired by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
