These global album sales numbers from 2018 underscore how much the music industry has changed.
Album sales continue to crater as more and more of the planet moves to streaming. The International Federation of the
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2018
A Totally Scientific View on 2018’s Best Albums (Part 2)
Here we go again – the remainder of this year’s best albums, according to a whack of publications and somewhat
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Another “Best-of” music list for 2108
[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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A Totally Scientific View on 2018’s Best Albums (Part 1)
Let’s start with this – this article may take a while to load on your device. There are a LOT
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Shazam unveils the most-Shazamed songs of the year
Shazam, the magical audio identification app (now owned by Apple, by the way), is always collecting data on what songs
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Google Canada’s 18th annual Year in Search data released. Let’s look at the music bits.
Google is forever collecting data on what sorts of thing we search for. The 2018 edition of Year in Search
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Here’s an old-school metric: The top jukebox songs of 2018
Back in the 1930s when music charts first appeared, songs were ranked on not how many times they were played
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What lyrics did people search for in 2018? LyricFind can tell us.
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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More year-end fun: YouTube’s biggest videos of the year
Each year around this time, YouTube issues its Rewind lists, which is a look back to the videos Canadians watched
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Year-end music stats from Twitter
Twitter is the latest online platform to provide us with a roundup of data from 2018. Here are some highlights:
Read moreSpotify has released their year-end lists of the most popular music of 2018
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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