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Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 24 January 2022

If you’re the kind of industry watcher who likes to follow along with Canadian music sales and streaming, you’ve come

We’ve all heard the stories about where punk came from. Here’s the precis: The New York Dolls and a few

With the calendar flipping to a new year, it’s time to look back on what music Canadians bought and streamed

When vinyl sales ticked back up in 2008, it was easy to look at this as an anomaly, a blip

Yeah, it’s the holidays, but statistics never rest. Here’s how things shaped up for the second-last week of 2021. Year-over-year

We’re coming down to the last few weeks of the year. Even though we have a bit of Christmas shopping

This is the second week of Adele. We’ll get to her 30 album in a sec, but first, let’s look

Now that we’re into December, here come all the year-end lists. YouTube Canada has published several such lists. Let’s go

Even flying economy on an ultra-low-cost airline is better than this. As for music news for November 30, 2021, here’s

By this time next week, we’ll know the effect Adele’s 30 album had on both music sales and streaming. This

As pointed out in this week’s Canadian music sales and streaming report, there were more than two billion on-demand audio

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver