Vinyl hits another high in its comeback
After 15 years of year-over-year growth, there are still people who believe that our interest in vinyl is a fad. Here’s another stat that shoots down that theory. For the week ending December
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2021
Here are the most downloaded/most-used apps of 2021
A site called App Annie has gone through all the most popular apps to determine which apps were the most popular of 2021. This report details everything, but here’s an executive summary instead
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Proof that 2021 was not great for new music
Quick: Name an album released in 2021 that will go down in history as an all-time classic. Other than Adele’s 30 (if for nothing other than being an Adele record), I can’t think
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Here’s the final word on Canadian music sales and streaming for 2021
With the calendar flipping to a new year, it’s time to look back on what music Canadians bought and streamed in 2021. Here are the official year-end stats from MRC Data. Total album
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Despite supply chain issues, vinyl had another MONSTER year
When vinyl sales ticked back up in 2008, it was easy to look at this as an anomaly, a blip caused largely by the novelty of a new thing called Record Store Day.
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Weekly survey: How would you grade the new music of 2021?
Now that we’re getting very close to the end of the year, it’s time for some reflection on the overall quality of the new music we got. How would you grade the music
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TikTok’s year in music report is out
If it wasn’t for music, TikTok wouldn’t exist. And given the explosive growth of the platform over the last couple of years, it has turned into a money-spinner for both artists and labels.
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What were the biggest streamers on Spotify in 2021?
If you’re a user of Spotify, you might have already received your Unwrapped report which goes through all your listening habits for the last year. (On the surface, this looks really cool. But
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YouTube Canada’s top videos, creators, and moments for 2021
Now that we’re into December, here come all the year-end lists. YouTube Canada has published several such lists. Let’s go through them. Top Music Videos in Canada TheWeekndVEVO, The Weeknd – Save Your
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Cadence Weapon’s Parallel World Wins the 2021 Polaris Music Prize
Cadence Weapon, born in Edmonton and raised in Toronto, took home the $50,000 cheque for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize last night (September 27). A grand jury picked his record to be the
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Will Lollapalooza end up being a COVID superspreader event?
Give what you know about the rise of the Delta variant of COVID, would you have gone to Lollapalooza last weekend? I’ve been following the coverage of the festival and news from the
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