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2019

Music Industry 

Here’s your year-end report for music consumption in Canada in 2019 (There are a lot of fascinating facts here.)

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019

Nielsen Music Canada has just released a summary of how we Canadians hoovered music in 2019. Here are the highlights:

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Music Industry 

Streaming consumption hit a new record in the US last year. These are BIG numbers.

January 10, 2020January 9, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019, Music Consumption

BuzzAngle, a company that keeps an eye on what we listen to and watch, has released their final report for

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Recommended Music 

All the big hits of the last decade in one mashup

December 14, 2019December 13, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2010s, 2019, DJ Earworm, Mashup

Not only has DJ Earworm continued his tradition of releasing a year-end mashup of the biggest hits over the last

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Music News 

Another end-of-the-year summary: Google’s Year in Search

December 13, 2019December 12, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019, Google, Search

For the 19th year in a row, Google has published a summary of what Canadians looked for online (on Google,

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Music News 

And the biggest musical acts on Twitter in 2019 were…

December 11, 2019December 10, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019, Twitter

Everyone is doing the year-end thing now, including Twitter. According to their new summary, #ThisHappen in 2019, these were the

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Music News 

It’s Spotify Wrap time again. What did you listen to in 2019?

December 8, 2019December 7, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019, Spotify, Wrapped

If you’re a premium subscriber to Spotify, you’ll have received your 2019 Wrapped email by now. It’s the cool/fun/a little

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Music News 

Year-end review time: 2019 according to YouTube

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019, YouTube

YouTube would like us to know what people watched in 2019 both in Canada and around the world. Here we

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Music News 

And the Highest Paid Hip Hop Star of 2019 is…

September 20, 2019September 20, 2019 Larry Lootsteen 0 Comments 2019, Forbes, Highest-Paid, Hip-hop

When you hear names like Cardi B, Drake, Eminem, Migos and Nicki Minaj, you can be forgiven for wondering which

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Music News 

Haviah Mighty wins the 2019 Polaris Music Prize

September 17, 2019September 18, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019, Haviah Mighty, Polaris Music Prize

A lot of people woke up today wondering who won the 2019 Polaris Music Prize. And when they saw the

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Music Industry 

Predicting the song of the summer of 2019 using Spotify data

June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019, Song of the Summer, Spotify

It’s that time when the zeitgeist takes over and starts searching for a song that will forevermore embody the song

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Geeks and Beats podcast, episode 232: Live on location at CosmoFEST 2019

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2019

Join Alan Cross and Michael Hainsworth and 14,000 of their friends, fans, and musicians live at CosmoFEST 2019! We’ll find

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