Random music news for Saturday, January 25, 2025
This new AI-powered search engine has a backup: Humans. Checking in with music new for January 25, 2025…
- Let’s engage in some predictions for Canadian music in 2025.
- Which country was number three when it came to exporting music to the rest of the world in 2024? Yep. Canada.
- Big Wreck have been named the Canadian ambassadors for Record Store Day 2025.
- Spotify CEO Daniel EK has cashed out more stock. He’s taken about US$600 million so far.
- Spotify also hosted a Trump inauguration brunch.
- Ian James is a musician from Nova Scotia. An AI-generated album appeared on his Spotify profile without his permission.
- YouTube Music is experimenting with better audio quality for those who subscribe to its premium level.
- Ceiling tiles fell on an audience during a concert by the band Bad Omens in Melbourne. There were injuries.
- Post Malone now has his own Oreo cookie.
- Yeah, dude. It IS politics. Everything is politics in America.
- TikTok is back online–for now–but here’s another similar app you might want to try just in case. It’s a Singpore-based thing called Likee.
- This guy spoke a lot of harsh truths about the current state of the music industry. It’s worth a read.
- Is Billy Ray Cyrus losing it? His family is worried.
- A Jeff Beck guitar just sold at auction for US$1.3 million.
- Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell are “endorsing” this product. And yes, they’re still both dead.
BONUS: Um, okay…
