Random music news for Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Where is Planet X? It’s running out of places to hide. Now what we’re done with astronomy, let’s do music news for January 14, 2025. BONUS: So true.
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Predictions
Here are my 10 predictions for music in 2025
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] With a fresh year before us, ’tis the season to look ahead at what things we may look forward to over the next 12
Read MoreRandom music news for Friday, December 27, 2024
This year was big for dating apps, yet they still don’t have things figured out. If you use such an app, read this. Then go on to music news for December 27, 2024.
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Shazam has predictions for global and regional breakout artists in 2024
Apple owns Shazam, the magical app that “listens” to music that you want to identify. Each time you Shazam something, you’re generating data for the app and for Apple. Sometimes we get to
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I have 10 predictions for music in 2024
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. Meet me back here in a year to see how well I did. – AC] As we get closer to the one-quarter mark of the 21st
Read MoreRandom music news for Thursday, December 28, 2023
Chess is supposed to be a game of honour, but it can apparently also include beads and pooping in bathtubs. Music news for December 28, 2023, has much better standards. More music news?
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Can we use AI + neuroscience to predict which songs will be hits? Maybe.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] There’s a scene in the biopic Creation Stories where Ewan Brenner, channelling Creation Records founder Alan McGee in a scene with his therapist, rants about the
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Here’s a mix of New Year’s resolutions and predictions for music in 2023
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca this week. – AC] Inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s book, Cinema Speculation, I resolved to spend 2023 going deep into the movies of the late 1960s and through the
Read MoreApple’s Shazam app predicts these artists will be big in 2023
Shazam, the magical Apple-owned app that can identify a song by listening to it, can be an interesting source of data. What songs are people Shazaming the most? And how do things differ
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What can a band do when a key member dies? Let’s explore the Foo Fighters situation
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] One of the knocks against the Foo Fighters has been that they’re not dangerous or consumed with drama. But that’s been very much by
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Into predictions? Here’s who Shazam says will be big in 2022.
Shazam, the Apple-owned app that magically identifies songs by listening to them, is used by people all over the world when they chance upon an unfamiliar song. The theory is that by analyzing
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