Remember when people couldn’t stop talking about Shakira and JLo’s performance at the Super Bowl? Or when Eminem showed up, unannounced, at the Oscars to perform “Lose Yourself” for no apparent reason? The
Read MoreNielsen Music Canada has published its mid-year report and the news is surprisingly good. According to their analysis, Canadian music consumption is up 5.7% year-over-year despite the pandemic. The hero in all this
Read MoreAs more of the country starts to slowly open up and lockdowns ease, what will be the effect on music consumption? Will people go back to buying physical music? Will streaming patterns be
Read MoreA first-year PhD student with a thing for visualizations has created this look at the best-selling music artists from 1970 through to today. It’s fascinating –mesmerizing, actually–to see how the careers rise and
Read MoreAlbum sales continue to crater as more and more of the planet moves to streaming. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which keeps track of how things are going around the
Read MoreThe Billboard 200 used to be the most important album chart in the known universe. The more your album sold, the higher it climbed. But then came streaming and sales of physical product
Read MoreHow successful were the Tragically Hip in Canada? FYIMusicNews.ca reports the following: Tragically Hip Sales Data to Date for Canada (Via Nielsen Canada) 3.7 million albums 7 #1 albums 1.3 million tracks 128 million
Read MoreWhen Glenn Frey died, Don Henley said that the Eagles would never play live again. So much for that promise. Why is Rogers Waters still touring at age 73? Pete Townshend and Roger
Read MoreI just heard that my favourite sci-fi novel (actually, it’s part of a trilogy) of the last two decades, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, is being made into a movie. How the hell are
Read MoreStreaming is changing the way we all audition, acquire and consume music. HeavyBlogIsHeavy.com tries to quantify these changes. Over the past couple years we’ve published two massive articles about the current state and impending
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving! And for all American readers, how is Columbus Day still a thing? And now, some music news… Insane Clown Posse finally comment on the creepy clown crisis in the US. And
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