Hamilton’s fantastic Supercrawl is this weekend
Now in its 16th year, Supercrawl is still a pretty fantastic free music festival. Hamilton music people do a great job staging this thing every year. Here’s the schedule for
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Global recorded music industry revenues was up over 10% in 2023. It’s now worth US$28.6 billion.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the global organization representing record labels, has come out with its annual Global Music Report, which offers a look at the health
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Spotify has released some new payout information for artists. These are some big numbers.
Spotify has just updated its Loud&Clear website, the spot where the company offers all sorts of details regarding the money they pay out to artists. But before we get into
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And the biggest album of 2023 was…NOT by Taylor Swift
The IFPI, the organization that represents the interests of record labels worldwide, just released more stats on global music consumption in 2023. The latest data dump reveals the biggest album
Read MoreAlmost a quarter-billion people now pay for Spotify
Spotify issued its results for the fourth quarter of 2023 today (February 6). Here’s what we learned.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1003: 2023 in Memoriam
A year ago, I began what will unfortunately be a regular series of these programs from now on. It’s an annual look back on the musicians we lost in the
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More year-end sales numbers: Who sold the most CDs and vinyl in Canada in 2023? Do you have to ask?
Luminate, the monitor of all kinds of music consumption, has published its year-end report for Canada in 2023. That includes lists of the best-selling CDs and vinyl records in the
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How big is streaming? Four TRILLION songs were streamed in 2023 (and tens of millions more had ZERO streams)
As more people adopt streaming as their primary way of music consumption, more songs are being streamed. And a lot of songs were streamed in 2023. According to Luminate, the
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Random music news for Tuesday, December 26, 2023
What national cuisines are judged to be the best in the world? There’s been a survey. (Hint: Not Canada. Or France.) Meanwhile, here’s what’s happening in music new for December
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Some final words from the Christmas Music Desk
Let’s finish up Christmas music-related news before we put the whole genre to bed for another year, shall we? Brenda Lee had a good season and made millions on her
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New report says that Canadians are listening to more music than ever before
‘Tis the season for year-end lists and summaries. In this installment of What Happened in 2023, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the group representing the recorded music
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