Remember when people couldn’t stop talking about Shakira and JLo’s performance at the Super Bowl? Or when Eminem showed up, unannounced, at the Oscars to perform “Lose Yourself” for no apparent reason? The
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The weekly Canadian music sales and streaming report from Nielsen paints a sobering picture of how the recorded music industry is doing during the coronavirus crisis. Total album sales are down 37.8% from
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Weekly figures released last night by Nielsen Music Canada show that sales of recorded music continue to take a beating during the pandemic. Let’s start by comparing things year-upon-year. Here’s where things stand
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The people at Nielsen Music Canada spend all their days monitoring how we consume music and teasing out facts and trends from the data. Their annual year-end report will be out soon, but
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In today’s music environment, revenue isn’t going to come from selling pieces of plastic. And unless you’re written a song named “Despacito,” streams aren’t going to pay the bills, either. Touring and playing
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