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Here’s the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. We’ll look at streaming, too. (18 June 2026)

June 18, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 Views

As spring transitions into summer, let’s have a look at where things stand as far as CD and vinyl sales and then dip into the world of streaming. All figures from Luminate.   Streaming numbers:

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Concerts

Donald Trump must hate this: Here’s the musical line-up for the opening of the Obama Presidential Center

June 18, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 13 Views

When Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 organization tried to book acts to play the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in DC, it turned into an embarrassment. The only act that didn’t

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Ongoing History Daily: The History of the word “punk,” part 2

June 18, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 16 Views

Last time, we traced the meaning of the word punk from the late 1500s to the 1950s. For all those centuries, the word had nothing to do with music. So how did that

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Random music news for Thursday, June 18, 2026

June 18, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 12 Views

Science says if you enjoy dark humour, you might be smarter than everyone else. I must know a lot of geniuses. As for music news for June 18, 2026… BONUS: This is the

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A vinyl emoji? There’s a campaign to create one.

June 17, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 66 Views

I rarely use emojis in my emails/texts because I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of them. Certainly there’s an emoji for everything already, right? Well, no. Believe it or not, there isn’t an

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Music Industry

More people than ever are paying to stream music

June 17, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 67 Views

New stats from Midia Research say that more people are cool with the idea of paying to stream music. According to their latest research, there are 921.6 million global subscribers, which is up

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Podcast

Canadians are listening to a LOT of podcasts. Here are the latest stats.

June 17, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 60 Views

A new study on podcast listening in Canada reveals that we’re big into the medium. This comes via Triton Digital’s fourth annual Canadian Podcast Report. Read more here.

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Movies

The next film at The Sphere in Las Vegas will be…really?

June 17, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 54 Views

The Sphere in Las Vegas is great for concerts, but it’s also used for showing movies like The Wizard of Oz, which has generated US$400 million through the sales of three million tickets.

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Recommended Reading

The One Minute Music Book Club. Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

June 17, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 66 Views

There was a marked shift in music starting about 1999 with a new breed of indie rock performers that emerged just as Napster and file-sharing was taking off and the traditional music industry

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Funny/WeirdTech

Hamster butt earbuds. They exist.

June 17, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 61 Views

Japan is the closest you can get to Mars without leaving the planet. This is an example of the kind of technology that comes out of the country: hamster butt earbuds. The designer

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Ongoing History Daily: The History of the word “punk,” part 1

June 17, 2026 Alan Cross 0 Comments 65 Views

If I say “punk” in a musical context, you know exactly what I’m talking about: a high-energy, anti-establishment form of music characterized by loud guitars and furious drumming. But how did this word

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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry

Have I got a story for you! Award-winning Music Historian and host of the chart-topping Ongoing History of New Music Podcast Alan Cross unleashes his next amazing podcast. In every episode, Alan Cross takes you inside unbelievable true stories of crime, murder, scandal, strange deaths, unexplainable events, and the general mayhem from the music industry through the decades. There is a lot of bad behaviour that needs to be talked about. It’s a one-of-a-kind podcast featuring true crime stories from the world of music.

The Science of Song by Alan Cross

This illustrated book explores how music and the ways we experience it has transformed over the years and the science behind all of it. It starts with the basics — how does sound work? and what, exactly, is music?

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