These global album sales numbers from 2018 underscore how much the music industry has changed.
March 18th, 2019 | by Alan Cross
Album sales continue to crater as more and more of the planet moves to streaming. The International Federation of the
Browsing the "2018" Tag
A Totally Scientific View on 2018’s Best Albums (Part 2)
December 29th, 2018 | by Mathew Kahansky
Here we go again – the remainder of this year’s best albums, according to a whack of publications and somewhat
Another “Best-of” music list for 2108
December 28th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
[Danny Fournier of Edmonton’s Oddball Productions is always sending interesting/weird stories this way. His latest contribution is a list of
A Totally Scientific View on 2018’s Best Albums (Part 1)
December 26th, 2018 | by Mathew Kahansky
Let’s start with this – this article may take a while to load on your device. There are a LOT
Shazam unveils the most-Shazamed songs of the year
December 18th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Shazam, the magical audio identification app (now owned by Apple, by the way), is always collecting data on what songs
Google Canada’s 18th annual Year in Search data released. Let’s look at the music bits.
December 12th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Google is forever collecting data on what sorts of thing we search for. The 2018 edition of Year in Search
Here’s an old-school metric: The top jukebox songs of 2018
December 12th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Back in the 1930s when music charts first appeared, songs were ranked on not how many times they were played
What lyrics did people search for in 2018? LyricFind can tell us.
December 7th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
More year-end fun, this time with a look at what lyrics people searched for the most. LyricFind, the Canadian-based lyric
More year-end fun: YouTube’s biggest videos of the year
December 6th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Each year around this time, YouTube issues its Rewind lists, which is a look back to the videos Canadians watched
Year-end music stats from Twitter
December 6th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Twitter is the latest online platform to provide us with a roundup of data from 2018. Here are some highlights:
Spotify has released their year-end lists of the most popular music of 2018
December 4th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
More year-end list fun. Both Spotify and Amazon Prime have published their lists of the most popular music of 2018.
Now that (Canadian) Thanksgiving is over, we can look ahead to Record Store Day’s Black Friday offerings
October 10th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Black Friday, that day right after American Thanksgiving, has become the official start of the Christmas shopping season. The organizers
So how is podcasting doing in Canada? This infographic examines the landscape.
September 26th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
While there’s chatter of a podcasting bubble in the US, there’s slow and steady in Canada. That’s the conclusion of
Reflections on America’s most unusual music festival: Las Vegas’ unique Life is Beautiful, part 3
September 25th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
I ate too much. I drank too much. I wandered in the hot sun too much. I didn’t hydrate enough
Vote now for the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize
September 25th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Now that the regular Polaris Music Prize is out of the way for another, the next order of business is
Wolf Alice wins the 2018 Mercury Prize
September 21st, 2018 | by Alan Cross
The Mercury Prize is the UK and Ireland’s version of Canada’s Polaris Prize: an award voted on by music wonks
Jeremy Dutcher’s album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa wins the 2018 Polaris Music Prize
September 18th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
A lot of people (including me!) will be stumbling over the title of the winning album in the 2018 Polaris
Here is the shortlist for the 2018 Mercury Music Prize. That’s the next awards program on the schedule
September 18th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Now that Canada is done with the Polaris Music Prize for another year, it’s time to turn our attention to
Weekly survey: What is your song of the summer of 2018?
August 27th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
I hate to mention it, but Labour Day is this weekend. Summer–at least when it comes to those glorious weeks
Did anyone watch the MTV Music Video Awards last night? I’m guessing not.
August 21st, 2018 | by Alan Cross
I forgot about the MTV Music Video Awards. Yeah, I saw some pre-show hype, but when it came time to actually
The Vans Warped Tour is over forever. Cue the tears.
August 7th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
All good things must come to an end. The last-ever Warped Tour stop happened Sunday at the Coral Sky Amphitheatre
What sorts of musical things are people searching for on Google this summer? Glad you asked.
August 4th, 2018 | by Alan Cross
Google always keeps tabs and what we’re searching for. The company just released this list of the most-searched-for items when
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