Random music news for Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Look at it this way: Winter is now one-third over. Here’s music news for January 22, 2020.
- Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs. where things were at this point in 2019: Total album sales, -30.4%; CDs, -29.2%; digital albums, -36.7%; digital tracks, -31.3%; vinyl LPs, -7.5%; on-demand audio streams, +17% (1.549 billion streams in the country last week.)
- This scandal at the top of the Grammys just keeps getting weirder. And it’s not gonna blow over anytime soon. Here come more lawyers–and Chuck D.
- “Old musicians never die. They just become holograms.” Discuss.
- Neil Peart’s family is okay with a placing a monument to him at Lakeside Park in St. Catharines.
- Here’s an interesting spin on what Spotify would like to do with playlists.
- Ray Burton, the father of the late Cliff Burton of Metallica, has himself died at the age of 95.
- Got room for 3 million records?
- Meanwhile, this guy is spending a BILLION dollars to own every single pop song.
- Still using Chrome? Microsoft would like your attention.
- If you’re on your way to Florida and you need a place to stay, you might want to consider this place.
- A surviving member of Nirvana and the surviving members of The Doors are set to perform together tomorrow night.
- Evolutionary biology as applied to pop culture.
- Ted Templeman, the producer behind Van Halen’s sound, has a new book coming out called Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music. Sounds like a good read.
- Joey Kramer, the drummer for Aerosmith, has launched a lawsuit against…Aerosmith?
- There’s a dangerous intersection in Bowmanville, Ontario. A punk band wrote a song to get someone to fix the situation.
- “Hey! I was told I was being paid a hundred bucks to be in a music video! What’s this shit?“
- This 83-year-old dementia patient beat Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, and Ariana Grande to the top of this pop chart.
- Caught up in all the copyright infringement lawsuits over songs these days? Me, too. Read this.
