The IFPI, the organization that represents the interests of the recorded music industry worldwide, released figures about how things went in 2023. Here are the topline numbers. You can dig deeper in the
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Spotify reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2022 today (January 31), telling shareholders that the company now has 489 million monthly active users. That’s up by 33 million in Q4
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Now that we’re into a new year, the recorded music industry is evaluating the last 12 months. Luminate (formerly Nielsen) is the company that
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Brutal truth time: The next ten years are going to be a mass extinction as performers that have been a part of our life for the last 30, 40, 50, even 60 years
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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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The 2022 Hanukkah Sessions is a wrap with the vinyl video excerpt taken from a live gig in LA back on December 5. Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin (and guests) went through some
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Mediabase, the company that tracks radio airplay and other statistics, has issued its list of the biggest rock songs of 2022. Let’s start with alt-rock. Coin had the top radio song of the
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Dave Grohl and his buddy Greg Kirsten are back with a series of covers, one for each night of Hannukah. This is the third year they’ve been doing this, with each night featuring
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‘Tis the time of year-end lists when we look back to see what happened over the past 12 months. Google has just released the ten most-search songs for 2022 and the results are
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‘Tis the season for many, many year-end reviews/summaries/lists and TikTok has some data worth exploring. It’s hard to overestimate what kind of an effect TikTok is having on the recorded music industry. I’d
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It’s been a tough year for the majority of touring artists, given the pressure to play live and spiraling inflation. But the upper UPPER tier of artists did just fine. Here’s who made
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