Random music news for Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Today is Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday. Imagine the number of messages he’ll get today. On to music news for May 14, 2019.
- Canadian music sales and streaming stats from last week vs. this time last year: Total albums, -21.8%; CDs, -27.2%; digital albums, -18%; vinyl, +1.1%; on-demand audio streams, +36.8% (1.421 billion streams last week).
- That’s it for Fox’s Empire–no thanks to Jussie Smollett, of course. Canceled.
- And the lawsuits over the fate of Woodstock 50 have begun.
- Billie Joe Armstrong has released a bunch of rare Green Day video from the past. Very cool.
- The owner of the Washington Capitals is pushing Fugazi to reform.
- Here’s another music term you may run across: playlist malfeasance. It’s a problem.
- How big is BTS? Fans waited outside for days to see a free concert at New York’s Central Park.
- An original iPod is selling on eBay for $20K.
- This drum kit is made out of cardboard. Yes, cardboard.
- Google is getting deeper into podcasts, but the way they’re doing it will annoy some people.
- Is Rolling Stone magazine in financial trouble? There’s speculation out there.
- Well, this is an unexpected side effect of Spotify technology.
- It was Britney Spears’ father who had her committed to rehab against her will.
- Maybe it’ll be up to music to bring North and South Korea.
- When a punk musician makes it big, is it still punk?
- This is the story of the first-ever album made entirely in Pro Tools.
