Random music news for Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Still at CES for another day. Man, there are a lot of people plugging new wireless headphones here. And there’s music news to talk about for January 9, 2010.
- Here is the first report on Canadian music sales and streams 2020, comparing things to where they were at this time last year: Total album sales, -23.4%; CDs, -26%; digital albums, –24.8%, digital tracks, -28.1%, vinyl LPs, +3.8%; on-demand audio streaming, +31.9% (1.41 billion streams in the country last week.)
- Mastercard–yes, the credit card company–just released a new single.
- The brother of Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr has been convicted of stalking a couple of the band’s superfans.
- The next major rock star to get a biopic: Bob Dylan.
- Being in a metal band can hurt.
- Is physical music media really back?
- Coachella has been around for 20 years. Time for the documentary.
- Bagpipes: Good for getting the homeless to mov on but not good for the neighbours.
- Hate potholes? Then you’ll appreciate this song.
- Koko, an iconic British music venue, went up in flames.
- Is Toronto actually music city? Discuss.
- Flamenco priest. That is all.
- Ozzy and Elton John have collaborated on a song. Yes, you read that correctly.
- Metallica used to hate Spotify. Now they’ve just passed one billion streams.
- Sonos has sued Google for patent infringement over smart speaker technology.
