CAPACOA, the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, just released a statistical analysis encompassing all the performer arts industries in the country. Here’s what we learned. More details here.
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For years, Canada and Australia duked it out for fifth and sixth place when it comes the ranking of the world’s music markets. Things, though, have changed according to a recent IFPI Global
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It might be a holiday Monday here in Canada, but we still need the weekly music sales and streaming stats from Luminate. The first set of numbers compares last week to the same
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The Luminate data came late this week–Thursday night instead of late Monday–but at least it got here. We begin with comparisons between last week and the same week in 2022. This next comparison
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The figures from Luminate came in a little later than usual this week (Hey, it’s summer. We’ll cut them some slack.) Let’s start with comparing last week to the same week in 2022.
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[From Elisa F.G. – AC] Unless you are the ambidextrous musical genius that is Walk Off The Earth, eight people can not share a guitar, Three kids to one ukulele is madness. Even
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Luminate, the company that tracks the sales and streaming in Canada and the US, says that more Canadians are getting into streaming. For the first 19 weeks of 2023, on-demand song streams are
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As you may have heard, Ticketmaster is adopting the “all-in” approach when it comes to advertising the cost of live event tickets. In the past, we saw a ticket being touted for sale
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The weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats are a little late this week because of the American Juneteenth holiday. Let’s begin by comparing last week to the same week in 2023. This
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We’ve all heard the stories about where punk came from. Here’s the precis: The New York Dolls and a few other bands started playing gigs in a crappy area of New York City
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A bunch of big records came out over the last couple of Fridays leading into Canadian and American long weekends. Have they had any effect on weekly sales and streams? Let’s find out,
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