2019 Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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