Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 17 October 2022
The 41st week of 2022 looked like this to the Canadian recorded music industry. Year-over-year comparisons: Total album sales, -10.7%
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Digital
New Collaboration Aligns Traditional and Digital Reporting
One thing the music industry has struggled with in the digital age is how to report consistently between old and
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The First-Ever Digital Single Came Out 20 Years Ago This Week. Guesses on Who the Artist Was?
Today everything about music is digital (outside of us vinyl anoraks, of course) but 20 years ago it was the
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Younger Than Millennials – How Does Gen Z Feel About The Internet? Hint: They Need YouTube
Here’s something to make you think. Earlier this week, Adweek magazine published an article about the uprising of Generation Z.
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Latest Nielsen Report on Music Consumption in Canada
Don’t believe all the industry doom and gloom you hear in the news – music in Canada is doing pretty
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This German Kickstarter Lets You Make Music By Banging On Things Remotely
Do you ever find yourself tapping away on your desk with pens? Banging different parts to play out that wicked
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Explore Canadian Music History Online with New National Music Centre Collection Archive
Calgary’s National Music Centre (NMC) has launched a new online platform in celebration of Canada 150, allowing fans to browse
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Why We Need to Rethink the Concept of the Album in 2017
Before 1965, outside of Broadway cast recordings, classical recordings and jazz, we lived in a singles world. It was all
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A Digital Accordion? Yep.
I won’t lie. My first musical instrument was the accordion. My parents loved trotting me and my three-reed 120-bass Titano
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Is Radio Ready for the Rise of Digital?
An interesting look at radio’s future from Barrett Sports Media: Steve Jobs once said “people don’t know what they want
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Radiohead is Wrapped Up in a Weird Royalty Lawsuit. This Could Be Big.
Radiohead has been an independent act for almost ten years now yet they still can’t seem to shake the shackles
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