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2018

Music Industry 

These global album sales numbers from 2018 underscore how much the music industry has changed.

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2018, Album sales, IFPI

Album sales continue to crater as more and more of the planet moves to streaming. The International Federation of the

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Recommended Music 

A Totally Scientific View on 2018’s Best Albums (Part 2)

December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 Mathew Kahansky 0 Comments 2018, Album of the Year, Anthony Fantano, Best Album, Best Record, Consequence of Sound, Editorial, End of Year, KEXP, NME, Noisey, NPR, Record of the Year, Rolling Stone

Here we go again – the remainder of this year’s best albums, according to a whack of publications and somewhat

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Recommended Music 

Another “Best-of” music list for 2108

December 28, 2018December 27, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2018, Best of 2018

[Danny Fournier of Edmonton’s Oddball Productions is always sending interesting/weird stories this way. His latest contribution is a list of

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Recommended Music 

A Totally Scientific View on 2018’s Best Albums (Part 1)

December 26, 2018December 26, 2018 Mathew Kahansky 2 Comments 2018, Album of the Year, Anthony Fantano, Best Album, Best Record, Consequence of Sound, Editorial, End of Year, KEXP, NME, Noisey, NPR, Record of the Year, Rolling Stone

Let’s start with this – this article may take a while to load on your device. There are a LOT

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Music News 

Shazam unveils the most-Shazamed songs of the year

December 18, 2018December 17, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2018, Shazam

Shazam, the magical audio identification app (now owned by Apple, by the way), is always collecting data on what songs

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Music News 

Google Canada’s 18th annual Year in Search data released. Let’s look at the music bits.

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2018, Google

Google is forever collecting data on what sorts of thing we search for. The 2018 edition of Year in Search

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Music Industry 

Here’s an old-school metric: The top jukebox songs of 2018

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2018, Jukeboxes, TouchTones

Back in the 1930s when music charts first appeared, songs were ranked on not how many times they were played

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Music News 

What lyrics did people search for in 2018? LyricFind can tell us.

December 7, 2018December 6, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2018, LyricFind, Lyrics

More year-end fun, this time with a look at what lyrics people searched for the most. LyricFind, the Canadian-based lyric

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Music News 

More year-end fun: YouTube’s biggest videos of the year

December 6, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2018, Music VIdeos, YouTube

Each year around this time, YouTube issues its Rewind lists, which is a look back to the videos Canadians watched

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Music Industry 

Year-end music stats from Twitter

December 6, 2018December 5, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2018, Twitter, Year-end

Twitter is the latest online platform to provide us with a roundup of data from 2018. Here are some highlights:

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Music Industry Music News 

Spotify has released their year-end lists of the most popular music of 2018

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment 2018, Best Of, Spotify, Year-end

More year-end list fun. Both Spotify and Amazon Prime have published their lists of the most popular music of 2018.

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The Backstage Project Podcast

The Backstage Project Podcast with Mark Silver focuses on the stories behind the biggest and best entertainment products, events, and companies. We go behind the scenes with amazing people who have done or are doing extraordinary things to entertain you, the audience. From sporting events to concerts, from cable tv to music apps; if it’s made an impact on the entertainment world, we cover it.

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