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Random music news for Monday, January 11, 2021

This is Blue Monday, right? It’s supposedly the most depressing day of the year. Hopefully, it’s at least sunny where

I’ll bet you’re expecting an opening link to something Halloween related. Nope. This is much more interesting. And so is

The album has been the main currency of the recorded music industry since about 1965 when it took over from

There will be plenty of unexpected and unintended consequences from the coronavirus pandemic. There will be few areas of our

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Once upon a time, there was a complicated decades-long ritual involved

Deezer, the France-based streaming music service, is always studying how people listen top music. They just completed a survey on

Did you listen to any albums over the weekend. By that I mean listening to an album from track one

Back in the days of vinyl albums, people tended to listen to records all the way through. We’d start with

For more than 50 years, the entire recorded music industry has been based on selling us albums. Although Columbia introduced

October 25, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Albums

Much has been written about the traditional long-playing album’s death, a casualty of the rise of streaming music services. Single

October 11, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Albums

There’s concern in some quarters that the idea of releasing an album is passé, that the format has been superseded

The Speaker Representation Business – Martin Perelmuter in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 018 January 18, 2021
It is a lot harder to become a paid speaker than you might imagine. While you may think that publishing a book is a surefire way to become sought after, there’s a lot more to it, actually! Sure, there are many authors, politicians and academics that companies pay big bucks to keynote events. There are […]
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Born into the Beautiful Game – James Easton in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 017 January 13, 2021
The Easton family has played a vital role in shaping the North American soccer landscape for almost 50 years. In the early 70’s, Jim Easton Sr. uprooted his family from Scotland to take the job as the inaugural head coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps. Over his time in the role, Jim and his family fell […]
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In Search of a Digital Media Business Model – Chris Skinner in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 016 December 26, 2020
Traditional media businesses have long struggled to realize the opportunity with digital. Giving away free ad-supported content has backfired with Facebook and Google now controlling the relationship with the audience and all their associated behavioural data and preferences. What has emerged, thanks to Netflix, is that people will pay for good content, which is really […]
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