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2017

Music Industry 

Still More Year-End Canadian Music Stats for 2017

January 6, 2018January 5, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, Canada, Music sales, Statistics, Streaming

BuzzAngle makes it their business to track how we consume music in this country. This is a word-for-word look at

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Music Industry 

More Year-End Numbers: Here’s How the US Consumed Music in 2017 (Spoiler: Rock is NOT Dead. In Fact, Things Are Pretty Good.)

January 4, 2018January 5, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, BuzzAngle, Year-end

With Canadian year-end numbers still forthcoming, let’s bide our time by studying how Americans consumed music in 2017. BuzzAngle’s year-end

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Music News 

Fun with Stats from Bandcamp

January 2, 2018January 2, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, BandCamp

If you search for new music online, you’ve no doubt used Bandcamp, a great site for bands of all sort

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Music News 

Random Music News for Thursday, December 28, 2017

December 28, 2017December 28, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, 2018, Bono, Cassettes, Crystal Castles, Guns 'N Roses, Jane's Addiction, Music sales, Perry Farrell, Slash, Spotify, Streaming, Trump, U2

I’m serious. STOP WITH THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC! It’s there some kind of law surrounding this sort of thing? It’s December

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Cool! 

Your Year in Music in Uber. Wait–What?

December 20, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, Uber

Use Uber? The company is offering to turn all your 2017 trips in a music video. Start by going here.

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Music News 

Gord Downie Named Canada’s Newsmaker of the Year

December 20, 2017December 20, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, Canadian Press, Gord Downie, Newsmaker of the Year

Every year, the Canadian press selects a person as its newsmaker of the year and to the surprise of no

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Music Industry Radio 

What Were the Top Canadian Songs on the Radio in 2017?

December 20, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, Arkells, Top 10

If it seems that you heard a lot of Arkells on the radio in 2017, you’re not imagining things. According

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Music Industry Music News 

Time to Start Crunching the Year-End Numbers in Music for 2017, Including Sales and Streams of Those Who Died

December 18, 2017December 16, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2017, Nielsen Music Canada, Year-end

The people at Nielsen Music Canada spend all their days monitoring how we consume music and teasing out facts and

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Lists 

Top Music On TV In 2017

December 14, 2017December 12, 2017 Larry Lootsteen 0 Comments 2017, Music, Top, TV

Tunefind is a service that tracks music from television and movies. According to their data, this has been a banner

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Lists 

Top Google Searches In Canada For 2017

December 13, 2017 Larry Lootsteen 0 Comments 2017, Canada, Google, searches, Top

As year end list mania gets underway in earnest, Google has released their top searches for Canada for 2017. Always

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Music News 

And The Highest Paid YouTube Star Of 2017 Is…A Gamer?

December 12, 2017December 11, 2017 Larry Lootsteen 0 Comments 2017, Highest-Paid, YouTube

I have t say I was a little stunned to learn that bulk of the top YouTube earners in 2017

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