The Eagles hit a very big sales milestone. Probably.
One of the top-selling albums of all time is The Eagles’ Greatest Hits 1971-1975. It has just been certified as Quadruple Diamond in the US, which means 40 million copies
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Did you know the recorded music industry once sued someone for $72 TRILLION? This is the story.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] In 1999, the recorded music industry was swimming, drowning in money. CDs had been on an upward trajectory for more than
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Random music news for Monday, August 5, 2024
After a billion years, there’s a new alphabet song. Why? What was wrong with the old one? Smh. Moving to music news for August 5, 2024… Mote music news? Go
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July 9 is a day of ticket fairness advocacy; here’s how to get involved
If you’ve found yourself on the wrong side of a Ticketmaster waiting room, spending who knows how much time anticipating tickets to a hotly anticipated show only to come up
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The major record companies and the RIAA have sued two music-generating AI companies for “mass infringement” of copyright.
If you’ve been messing around with AI programs that generate pretty realistic sounding material, you’ll have come across Suno and Udio, two of the best platforms for this kind of
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Countries that are a haven for AI vocal cloning are now on the RIAA “notorious markets” list
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) regularly releases a “notorious markets” list which outlines which countries are havens for counterfeiting, bootlegging, stream-ripping, torrent sites, illegal cyberlockers and other piracy
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RIAA takes swift action against HitPiece and warns any potential copycats to reconsider
Rarely does anything within the music industry move fast. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, has a fire lit under it when it comes to addressing the NFT
Read MoreRandom music news for Friday, December 18, 2020
One week until Christmas. Feeling it yet? Maybe some music news for December 18, 2020, will help. Imagine a Spotify subscription for 34 cents per month. That’s what it costs
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Some Canadian-registered music sites sites have landed on America’s sh*t list
The US Government is putting together another Notorious Markets report, which names companies, websites, apps, and nations that it believes to be extreme violators of American copyright. In other words,
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Random music news for Monday, January 14, 2019
On this day in 1986, the first-ever PC virus. (c)Brain, was released into the wild. As for music news on January 14, 2019… Mike Patton of Faith No More was
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The biggest-selling album in America is Michael Jackson’s Thriller, right? Not anymore.
There’s a certain amount of voodoo that goes into determining the biggest-selling album of all time. Since 1991, all physical album sales have been tallied by the SoundScan system where
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