Random music news for Tuesday, November 5, 2019
If it’s Tuesday, I should be somewhere in Thailand. Regardless of my present whereabouts, here’s music news for November 5, 2019.
- Canadian music sales and streaming stats this week vs. where they were one year ago: Total albums, -23.6%; CDs, -27.0%; digital albums, -23.1%; digital tracks, -28.0%; vinyl LPs, +0.8%; on-demand audio streams, +33.7% (1.54 billion streams in the country last week).
- One of Donald Trump’s former cronies got banned from YouTube because of his love for Imagine Dragons.
- Podcasts: A billion-dollar business by next year?
- A Canadian musician describes what it’s like to try to make a living in the digital age.
- TuneIn Radio is a great app for listening to tens of thousands of radio stations worldwide. However, there’s a now a problem.
- Coldplay is using their new album to promote tourism to the Middle East, specifically Jordan.
- What are your friends listening to online? Try a new AI-powered music discovery app called Swiing.
- Madness, the great English ska band, is celebrating their 40th anniversary by playing a series of gigs charging 1979 prices for tickets.
- Oh, Ed.
- The stress of playing live is “like jumping from a plane.” Discuss.
- A member of BTS is under police investigation after a traffic accident.
