Album sales continue to crater as more and more of the planet moves to streaming. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which keeps track of how things are going around the
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Here we go again – the remainder of this year’s best albums, according to a whack of publications and somewhat haphazardly assembled! Let’s start with this – this article may take a while
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[Danny Fournier of Edmonton’s Oddball Productions is always sending interesting/weird stories this way. His latest contribution is a list of his picks of the best music music of 2018. – AC] I felt like
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Let’s start with this – this article may take a while to load on your device. There are a LOT of embedded links below. If you’re like me, you love this time of
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Shazam, the magical audio identification app (now owned by Apple, by the way), is always collecting data on what songs people want, er, identified. Here are the songs that people were most curious
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Google is forever collecting data on what sorts of thing we search for. The 2018 edition of Year in Search reveals what we went hunting for when it came to music. Songs/Lyrics “Thank
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Back in the 1930s when music charts first appeared, songs were ranked on not how many times they were played on the radio or sold in record stores, but by how many times
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More year-end fun, this time with a look at what lyrics people searched for the most. LyricFind, the Canadian-based lyric search site, presents the data.
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Each year around this time, YouTube issues its Rewind lists, which is a look back to the videos Canadians watched on the platform over the last 12 months. Here’s what was big in
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Twitter is the latest online platform to provide us with a roundup of data from 2018. Here are some highlights: The most-mentioned Twitter account by Canadians in 2018 is owned by BTS, the
Read MoreMore year-end list fun. Both Spotify and Amazon Prime have published their lists of the most popular music of 2018. From Spotify’s blog: Spotify’s Global Top Lists 2018: Most-Streamed Artists Drake is the
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