The 41st week of 2022 looked like this to the Canadian recorded music industry. Year-over-year comparisons: Total album sales, -10.7% CD sales, -6.6% Digital album sales, –18.1% Digital tracks, -17.1% Vinyl LPs, -3.4%
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One thing the music industry has struggled with in the digital age is how to report consistently between old and new technologies. A new collaboration between Bell Media, Music Canada and Re:Sound is
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Today everything about music is digital (outside of us vinyl anoraks, of course) but 20 years ago it was the stuff still bordering on science fiction. Because the recording industry was still making
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Here’s something to make you think. Earlier this week, Adweek magazine published an article about the uprising of Generation Z. Defined as those born between 1996 and 2010, Gen Z is the demographic
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Don’t believe all the industry doom and gloom you hear in the news – music in Canada is doing pretty well. A recent survey by market research group Nielsen shows that more Canadians are
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Do you ever find yourself tapping away on your desk with pens? Banging different parts to play out that wicked drum solo in your head? Well, a German Kickstarter campaign called dadamachines is
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Calgary’s National Music Centre (NMC) has launched a new online platform in celebration of Canada 150, allowing fans to browse their collection of musical history, instruments and memorabilia anytime. The new website, called
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Before 1965, outside of Broadway cast recordings, classical recordings and jazz, we lived in a singles world. It was all about The Song and just The Song. But as the music industry grew
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I won’t lie. My first musical instrument was the accordion. My parents loved trotting me and my three-reed 120-bass Titano for friends and relatives to show how well their boys could play good
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An interesting look at radio’s future from Barrett Sports Media: Steve Jobs once said “people don’t know what they want until you show it to them” and he was exactly right. When a
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Radiohead has been an independent act for almost ten years now yet they still can’t seem to shake the shackles of their major label deal with EMI and its subsidiary, Parlophone. In a
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