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

Tales from the Sports Journalist’s Beat – Morgan Campbell in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 019 January 24, 2021
From being an NCAA football player to becoming a journalist, Morgan Campbell has spent most of his life with an insiders’ view of the sports world. Over his 20+ year career, he’s witnessed the changes and pullback in sports journalism. In this episode, Morgan breaks down the impact of the new realities of sports journalism, […]
Mark Silver
The Speaker Representation Business – Martin Perelmuter in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 018 January 18, 2021
It is a lot harder to become a paid speaker than you might imagine. While you may think that publishing a book is a surefire way to become sought after, there’s a lot more to it, actually! Sure, there are many authors, politicians and academics that companies pay big bucks to keynote events. There are […]
Mark Silver
Born into the Beautiful Game – James Easton in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 017 January 13, 2021
The Easton family has played a vital role in shaping the North American soccer landscape for almost 50 years. In the early 70’s, Jim Easton Sr. uprooted his family from Scotland to take the job as the inaugural head coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps. Over his time in the role, Jim and his family fell […]
Mark Silver