2017 Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The Genius of Live Sports Production – Paul Graham In Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 013 December 1, 2020
The best live sports executive producers are a blend of genius, in both art and science. Whether we realize it or not, as viewers, we are of course more deeply engaged in cliffhangers. Match outcomes that keep us tuned in until the very end. That is where the executive producer shines. The research and preparation […]
Mark Silver
Intimate Gatherings of Sports Fans and Media Personalities – Kevin Kennedy in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 012 November 25, 2020
No matter the sport, passionate fans and pundits have long debated the goings-on in the clubhouse or on the pitch of every pro sports team. For most of us, this dialogue and discord are limited to Twitter, or perhaps yelling at sports talk radio hosts in our cars. If you were paying slightly more attention, […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Independent Production – Don Young in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 011 November 18, 2020
Canadians have long heard about Canadian content, aka CanCon. What most outside of the broadcast business don’t generally realize is that much of that content is actually subsidized by the private broadcasters, such as Bell Media and Rogers Media. Many independent producers have made a career, and a lot of money, perfecting the art of […]
Mark Silver