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Random music news for Monday, January 11, 2021

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Albums, Apple, Ariel Pink, Astronomy, Bad Wolves, Elvis Presley, Ganymede, Gene Simmons, Gibson, iPhone, Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, Simpsons, Spotify, System of a Down, Twitch

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

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Music News 

Random music news for Saturday, October 31, 2020

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Aespa, Album Artwork, Albums, Donald Trump, Eddie Van Halen, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Ministry, Shazam, Ticketmaster, U2, White Supremacists, YouTube, YouTube Music

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

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Music Industry 

Is this the solution for saving the album from extinction?

September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 Alan Cross 3 Comments Albums

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

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What form will music take after COVID-19: Albums, EPs, playlists, or mixtapes?

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Albums, EPs, Mixtapes, Streaming, Vinyl

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

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Opinion 

Is the death of the album nigh?

February 3, 2020February 2, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments Albums

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

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Do people listen to full albums as much as they used to? This survey says they don’t.

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Albums, Deezer, Streaming

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

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Opinion 

Weekly survey: Do you still listen to albums from start to finish?

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 Alan Cross 20 Comments Albums, National Album Day

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

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Music News 

New study says we’re listening to albums all wrong

October 4, 2019October 3, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment Albums

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

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Music Industry 

The concept of the album is falling from favour. What’s next?

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 Alan Cross 2 Comments Albums

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

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The album is dead, right? Maybe not.

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

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Is the concept of the album dead? Maybe not.

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

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