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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 06 April 2021

We’re a day late with this week’s sales and streaming stats, but Easter Monday, you know? Let’s start with year-over-year

As Ontario enters its third lockdown due to COVID-19, the need to work hard to help save Canada’s stages becomes

How are things for the people who make a living within the Canadian recorded music industry? Let’s start with looking

Once again, we turn to MRC/Nielsen for a check on what’s happening with Canadian music sales and streaming. We begin

Be happy you don’t live in this quaint English village. Gross. What’s wrong with people? Distract yourself from the mental

So how is 2021 looking this week? Let’s begin by comparing things to a year ago. Total album sales, -29.5%

MCR/Nielsen spends all its time looking at charts, sales, streams, and the music consumption habits of fans all over the

Google Canada has joined the parade of year-end summaries with a list of who-searched-what when in 2020. These are the

Around this time each year, Twitter sends out stats about who tweeted what, who followed whom, and what trended big

Like so many other areas of the economy, the recorded music industry has had a very rough go during the

Making “The End of The Storm” – James Erskine in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 026 March 24, 2021
This week’s guest — director James Erskine — joins us from England where he has just released his latest feature-length documentary, The End of The Storm. The documentary follows Liverpool Football Club and their fans as they navigate the covid-interrupted 2019-2020 Premier League winning season. James expertly weaves together the voice of Jürgen Klopp, the […]
Andrew Dick
Inside the Toronto Sports Media Scene – Jonah Sigel in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 025 March 17, 2021
Being a Toronto sports fan hasn’t been easy for many generations of Torontonians. Of course, the Raptors NBA title was kind of a reset for the city, and there were a couple of crazy Blue Jays runs a few years back, but those were more so the Toronto sports awakening for Millenials. For Gen X, […]
Mark Silver
In a League of Her Own – Mary Ellen Carlyle in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 024 March 10, 2021
Dome Productions is a relatively unknown company. Anyone who has walked by Gate 13 at Rogers Centre while attending a Toronto Blue Jays game has likely missed the small Dome Productions office sign, which looks more like a cornerstone time-capsule on the building’s facade. However, there’s a good reason you’ve never heard of Dome. They […]
Mark Silver