Music
Canadian Music Organization Says Bill C-11 Will Hurt Artists and Companies
Network Music Group, a Canadian music organization and intellectual property brand builder, on Thursday spoke out against the federal government's highly controversial broadcast bill (via @SwBenzie). https://twitter.com/SwBenzie/status/1532735137250787329 Bill C-11 was tabled by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez in February as an amendment to the Broadcasting Act. The legislation aims to give the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)...
New Images Show Off Upcoming Standalone Music and TV Apps Slated for macOS 10.15
A new report from 9to5Mac shows off a pair of screenshots for the upcoming standalone Music and TV apps, both of which are said to be coming along with macOS 10.15 later this year. It seems as if Apple will be adopting a similar design language across the apps, with both the Music and TV apps...
2018 Sees Total Album Equivalent Audio Consumption Grow by 21% in Canada
According to a new Nielsen report, Canada’s music industry experienced significant overall growth in 2018, with total album equivalent audio consumption up 21% over 2017. With 424,000 on-demand audio consumption units, including over 481 million audio streams, Drake’s ‘Scorpion' was the album with the highest total consumption. “The music industry in Canada is thriving following yet another...
Deezer Launches on Amazon Alexa in Canada and Beyond
Music streaming service Deezer has announced it now is fully supported on Amazon Alexa supported speakers, such as Echo devices, and Alexa-supported devices such as the Sonos One. According to Deezer, Alexa will be available in US, UK, Germany, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand right now, with more countries to come. The Deezer Skill on Amazon...
Post Malone’s “Rockstar” Sets Apple Music Streaming Record
Post Malone's song "Rockstar" has just surpassed DJ Khaled's "I'm the One" as the record with the most Apple Music streams in one week. According to a new report from The Verge, the song has 25 million streams in a single week on the music service, which accounted for 56 percent of streams of the song in...
First Hands-On with Apple Watch Series 2 and AirPods [VIDEO]
This morning Apple took the stage in San Francisco to announce the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, the Apple Watch Series 2, and the company's new wireless headphones called AirPods. The Apple Watch Series 2 has a new chip inside the S2, a dual-core processor that is up to 50% faster, and a new GPU which...
Apple Begins Recruiting Lyrics Curators For Apple Music
Apple has begun hiring a Lyrics Curation Manager to lead a team of lyrics curators for Apple Music's new lyrics feature coming in iOS 10's Music app. The job posting, which was posted on Apple's job board less than a week ago, was first spotted by MusicBusinessWorldwide. The position requires someone with excellent writing skills,...
Apple Music’s Bozoma Saint John Says Human Curation is Key, Not Algorithms
In an interview with FastCompany, Apple Music’s marketing manager Bozoma Saint John answered some criticisms of the service Apple launched in June 2015. The first version of the app and the service was praised for some functions but criticized heavily for others. Saint John said that the best way to take the criticism is to...
Apple Proposes Simplified Payouts for Music Streaming Royalties
Apple has built a new proposal to set fixed songwriting royalty rates for music streaming services. The government filing was created in collaboration with the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) and would set songwriting royalty rates at 9.1 cents per 100 streams. Although the change would simplify a complex royalty system, it would also increase the...
Apple’s Free iOS App of the Week: LOOPIMAL
LOOPIMAL by Lucas Zanotto is Apple’s free app of the week. The game normally retails for $3.99 and is free for this week only. Loopimal is a building tool full of handcrafted animations and sounds effects. It is your kid’s first entry into the world of computer sequencing. With intuitive and fun gestures they can create...
George Strombo Hosting Canadian Beats 1 Show on Apple Music
According to an exclusive interview with the Financial Post, Josh McConnell reports Canadian music and TV personality George Stroumboulopoulos will host a Canadian “takeover” of Beats 1. Apple has confirmed that the hour-long segment will air on July 2 at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST. After the initial “takeover” episode, the series will continue for...
Apple Collaborates With NASA on Jupiter-Themed Short Film ‘Visions of Harmony’
To commemorate the impending arrival of NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, Apple collaborated with the space agency to release a new short film on iTunes and Apple Music today. The short film features original music by artists like Weezer, Nine Inch Nails frontman, and Apple executive Trent Reznor. The film, "Visions of Harmony," is themed around...