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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats, 06 Feb 2023

February 7, 2023February 7, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canadian, Luminate, Music sales, Streaming

The first full month of 2023 is in the books for the Canadian recorded music industry. Here’s how things look

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Radio continues to do well in Canada. Better, in fact.

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment Canadians, Commuting, Radio LIstening, Streaming

New data from Radio On The Move Fall 2022 Share of Audio Update from Signal Hill Insights and Radio Connects shows that Canadians still

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Random music news for Monday, January 23, 2023

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black Eyed Peas, Blur, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Little Richard, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Shakira, Streaming, TikTok, Vinyl

Poop school. It’s a thing. So is music news for January 23, 2023. More music news? Look here. BONUS: What

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 16 January 2023

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2023, Canada, Music sales, Streaming

The new year has officially begun. How’s it look for the Canadian recorded music industry? Let’s begin by going back

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Music Industry 

The year-end numbers are in. How did the Canadian recorded music industry do in 2022?

January 16, 2023January 15, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 2022, Canada, Recorded Music Industry, Sales, Streaming

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Now that we’re into a new year, the recorded music industry

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 09 January 2023

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Music sales, Statistics, Streaming

With the exception of December 30 and 31 (which are included in this week’s stats), this is how 2023 shaped

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Music Industry 

Here’s how Canadian music sales and streaming stats ended (almost) for 2022

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Luminate, Music sales, Streaming

Luminate, the company that tracks all music consumption in Canada, has released what will be pretty much the final word

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Music News 

This stat shows how weird the album charts have become

January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Album Charts, Album sales, Paid Downloads, SOS, Streaming, SZA, Taylor Swift

Back in the day, the album charts were compiled by having some guy call around to a bunch of record

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Music News 

The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Things you may not realize about streaming, part 2

December 30, 2022December 30, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Spotify, Streaming

Once upon a time, many centuries ago, someone came up with the idea of gathering all the world’s available knowledge

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Music News 

Mariah Carey set a new Spotify streaming record with THAT SONG

December 28, 2022December 28, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments All I Want for Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey, Spotify, Streaming

There was some concern/joy this season that Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” had finally peaked and was on

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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Things you might not realize about streaming

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple Music, CDs, Compact Discs, Napster, Spotify, Streaming

[We’re taking a break over the holidays. New shows start the first weekend in January. – AC] Once upon a

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