Random music news for Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Twenty-one years ago today, Google was founded. How long did it take before “google” became a verb? Moving on to music news for September 4, 2019…
- Canadian music sales and streaming stats vs. this time last year: Total album sales, -24.6%; CD sales, -29.8%; digital albums, -21.2%; digital tracks, -27.6%; vinyl LPs, -1.5%; on-demand audio streams, +34.8% (1.487 billion streams last week).
- Liam Gallagher is going to try marriage again. He’s now engaged to his music manager, Debbie Gwynther. This will be Our Kid’s third marriage.
- Meanwhile, Debbie had an issue with some other women in a pub toilet.
- More HORRIBLE album covers.
- Is the music industry ready for everything that’s going to happen with 5G technology?
- And should streaming worry about any upcoming global recession? Maybe.
- Jay-Z is starting to roll out his plans for music for this year’s NFL season as part of his new partnership for the league. Will rock figure into anything at all?
- Singing toilets are on the rise in North America. You read that correctly.
- If you’re into photography, you might want to look into a new Andy Summers camera (yes, the drummer from The Police) coming from Leica.
- Chronic pain? Maybe you need a gong bath.
- Here’s an explanation of rock’s enduring fascination with clowns. Yes, clowns.
- It appears that R Kelly has at least one woman on his side. She’s working to raise money for a defense fund.
- An entire satellite radio channel of nothing but cycle fitness instructors? It exists.
- This radio company has launched a new sports network without using any terrestrial transmitters. Is this the future?
- Related: Up to one-third of American radio personalities are doing podcasts.
- Amazon really wants to get Alexa into your car. Here’s what they envision her doing.
- AI is now designing t-shirts. How could this be adapted for musical purposes?
