Still More Year-End Canadian Music Stats for 2017
BuzzAngle makes it their business to track how we consume music in this country. This is a word-for-word look at what we Canadians listen to in 2017. CAUTION: Lots of data ahead! Audio
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More Year-End Numbers: Here’s How the US Consumed Music in 2017 (Spoiler: Rock is NOT Dead. In Fact, Things Are Pretty Good.)
With Canadian year-end numbers still forthcoming, let’s bide our time by studying how Americans consumed music in 2017. BuzzAngle’s year-end summary and analysis reveals that rock continues to do well despite reports of
Read MoreFun with Stats from Bandcamp
If you search for new music online, you’ve no doubt used Bandcamp, a great site for bands of all sort to offer their wares to fans. The site has just released a list
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Random Music News for Thursday, December 28, 2017
I’m serious. STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC! It’s there some kind of law surrounding this sort of thing? It’s December 28, fer crissakes. Canadian music sales vs. this time last year: Total albums, -17%;
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Your Year in Music in Uber. Wait–What?
Use Uber? The company is offering to turn all your 2017 trips in a music video. Start by going here. That’s where you’ll find this screen. After signing in, I was taken to
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Gord Downie Named Canada’s Newsmaker of the Year
Every year, the Canadian press selects a person as its newsmaker of the year and to the surprise of no one, the 2017 recipient is Gord Downie. And yes, this is the second
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What Were the Top Canadian Songs on the Radio in 2017?
If it seems that you heard a lot of Arkells on the radio in 2017, you’re not imagining things. According to Nielsen Music Canada, the Hamilton band dominated at least two radio formats
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Time to Start Crunching the Year-End Numbers in Music for 2017, Including Sales and Streams of Those Who Died
The people at Nielsen Music Canada spend all their days monitoring how we consume music and teasing out facts and trends from the data. Their annual year-end report will be out soon, but
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Top Music On TV In 2017
Tunefind is a service that tracks music from television and movies. According to their data, this has been a banner year for music on TV. TOP SONGS 2017: Most popular songs on
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Top Google Searches In Canada For 2017
As year end list mania gets underway in earnest, Google has released their top searches for Canada for 2017. Always interesting and often with a few surprises, it’s always worth spend a little
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And The Highest Paid YouTube Star Of 2017 Is…A Gamer?
I have t say I was a little stunned to learn that bulk of the top YouTube earners in 2017 were not musicians. You may not see Daniel Middleton walking down a red
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