Luminate’s year-end report of music in 2025 is here
Luminate is the tracker of statistics for the music industry in North America. They’ve just released a summary of what happened with music in 2025, focusing mostly on Canada. (Get
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ICYMI: Things I posted elsewhere this week (21 June 2025)
In addition to what you see on this site and my work with Ongoing History of New Music radio shows/podcasts and the Uncharted podcast, I also generate stuff like this
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Not only is the King and Queen in the country, but Bono gushed about Canada
The Morning Show on Global News got a Canadian exclusive. He had some nice things to say about our country and how we’re standing up internationlly.
Read MoreICYMI: Things I posted elsewhere this week (01 Feb 2025)
I crank out a lot of stuff not for just this website, a radio show, a couple of podcasts, and more but also a series of posts and stories for
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In addition to posting content for this site, I also create articles for Corus Radio and Global News. Here are links to what I wrote for them this week. Weekly
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I crank out a lot of a lot content, including material for Corus rock radio stations across the country as well as Global News. Here are the posts I provided
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Global recorded music industry revenues was up over 10% in 2023. It’s now worth US$28.6 billion.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the global organization representing record labels, has come out with its annual Global Music Report, which offers a look at the health
Read MoreAnd the top song on the planet for 2023 was…
The IFPI, the global group representing the interests of the recorded music industry is out with more stats about 2023. Last week, it told us that when all the metrics
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Fun with music surveys, studies, and polls
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I’m a curious fellow when it comes to music and how the world interacts with it. This makes me a sucker
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So far this year, we’ve streamed HOW MANY SONGS?
Every Monday, Luminate, the company that measures music consumption and sales, puts out report (like this one) that shows how much we’re buying and streaming. This week’s report says that
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What are the top music markets in the world? And where does Canada rank these days?
The IFPI, the organization that represents the global recorded music industry, released its annual report recently. There’s a staggering amount of data in the report which covers 62 countries, but
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