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MUST READ: Why old music is better than today’s new music

If you’ve ever heard me speak on music somewhere, there’s inevitably an audience question that goes something like this: “Why

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

Here are the Canadian music sales and streaming stats for Week One of 2022, starting with the year-over-year comparisons. Total

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

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

Last week was the first week of sales for Adele’s 30 album. What kind of difference it did make in

Time for our weekly look at what’s going on with sales and streaming in Canada. Let’s begin with comparing where

More weekly data from MRC on how the Canadian recorded music industry is doing in real time. We’ll start with

I could have posted this last night but I was too busy watching Succession. How did Cousin Greg end up

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