Random music news for Thursday, September 21, 2023
I wonder how much it took for Robert Niro to appear in these ads? Meanwhile, music news for September 21, 2023, remains free. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Have you seen/heard the
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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 18 September 2023
Where are things at with the Canadian recorded music industry this week? Let’s take a look beginning by comparing last week to the week before: Here’s a comparison of last week to the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 989: The History of the 2010s, part 2
Traditional wisdom says that the recorded music industry is dominated by the major labels. There used to be a bunch of them, but over the last 25 years, their number has been whittled
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There’s a new report on the behavior of hip-hop fans
A new report examining the wants, wishes, needs, and demands of fans of hip-hop music has revealed a few interesting things. The study, commissioned by the Digital Media Association (DiMa) focused mostly on
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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 11 Sept 2023
As the recorded music industry preps for the all-important fourth quarter, here are the sales and streaming numbers that have their attention. We begin as always with a comparison of last week to
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I thought that streaming was supposed to stop young people from pirating music. Uh-oh
Twenty-five years ago when Napster and its sort began allowing us to share music online, we did it because: Illegal file-sharing wipe out huge swaths of the recorded music industry. Revenues went into
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Random music news for Thursday, September 7, 2023
Here’s a giant leap in toilet cleaning technology. We’re living in wondrous times. That’s underscored by music news for September 7, 2023. BONUS: Mary had a little lamb–and the lamb was a serial
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Can you launder criminal money using Spotify? Turns out you can.
I’m always fascinated by the ways people to game the system when it comes to music streaming. But using the platform for money laundering? That’s a new one. According to a Swedish news
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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 04 September 2023
Labour Day? Yep. But Luminate was at work compiling Canadian music sales and streaming stats. Here’s what happened last week compared to the week before: Moving on: This is last week compared to
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Do you suffer from video streaming paralysis? You’re not alone.
It happened to me again last night. My wife and the dog went up to bed early, leaving the TV in my custody. But after cycling through Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Paramount,
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Ongoing History Daily: The Concept of Selling Out
Back in the day, you almost never heard well-known songs in TV commercials. But then in the 80s, things began to change. The turning point was a Nike commercial in March 1987 that
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