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

Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver
The Custodian of Toronto Sports – Richard Peddie in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 033 May 27, 2021
Over a 20+ year span, as the Toronto pro sports scene evolved from older venues and stands filled with blue and white (Leafs, Blue Jays, Argonauts) to a more intense red (Raptors, TFC), and grand coliseums that define the city’s skyline, there is one sports executive in particular who ownership looked to. We’re of course […]
Mark Silver