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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 06 April 2021

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Music sales, Streaming

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

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#ForTheLoveOfLIVE calls for support of more funding for artists in federal budget

April 4, 2021April 4, 2021 Amber Healy 0 Comments #ForTheLoveOfLive, Canada, Canadian Government, Chrystia Freeland, Federal Budget, Live Music, Live Music Venues, Save Our Stages

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

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 29 March 2021

March 30, 2021March 29, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Music sales, Streaming

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

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There’s new research on social media use in Canada. Where do you fit in?

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Social Media

Insider Intelligence just published a look at the social media habits of Canadians of all ages. Marketers are gonna love

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Music sales, Streaming

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

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Random music news for Saturday, February 6, 2021

February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Canada, Cardi B, Grease, Marilyn Manson, Panic! At the Disco, Prince, Super Bowl, TikTok, Weeknd

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

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Here’s our weekly check on Canadian music sales and streams.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

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

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Music Industry 

MCR/Nielsen’s year-end report for music in Canada has arrived. (There is a LOT of data here!)

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2020, Canada, MRC, Nielsen

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

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Yet another year-end list: Google Canada’s Year in Search for music (among many other things)

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Google, searches

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

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Twitter Canada’s 2020 in review report is here

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2020, Canada, Twitter, Year in Review

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

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Here’s our weekly check-up on the health of Canadian music sales and streaming during the pandemic

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Music sales, Streaming

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

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