© Geneviève Bélanger-Nantel
Québec
ENCORE PLUS DE CONCERTS AU MAELSTRØM (fr)
Retour en février 2018. Ledit Maelstrøm accueillait une table ronde sur l’avenir des bars spectacles, une Messe Basse (c’était le nom officiel de l’événement) tenue en parallèle avec la Bourse Rideau. Cette causerie fort animée qui nous aura d’ailleurs inspiré un dossier thématique.
-Catherine Genest, Voir
Olivier Primeau organisera un festival hip-hop à Montréal (fr)
L’Esplanade du Stade olympique de Montréal sera hip-hop les 18 et 19 mai prochain alors que se déroulera la toute première édition du Festival Metro Metro.
-Christian Labarre-Dufresne, Huffington Post
A music fan wants to help Plateau’s Sound Central, to the tune of $10,000 (en)
When the record-store owner announced he might have to close shop in the new year, a customer set up a crowdfunding campaign.
-Jacob Serebrin, Montréal Gazette
Karkwatson: dix ans plus tard (fr)
Tenue en 2008 au National, une rencontre de Karkwa et de la formation menée par Patrick Watson avait dépassé les attentes. Deux cultures montréalaises en symbiose, valeur ajoutée aux répertoires respectifs, orchestrations audacieuses, public en liesse, bénédiction des grands esprits de la musique.
-Alain Brunet, La Presse
LA PETITE HISTOIRE DU MOSH PIT PUNK (fr)
Nos bands ont été récipiendaires du Lucien de l’album punk de l’année au GAMIQ 2017 et 2018; le mot « slam » est dans le nom de notre label; on a tou-te.s obtenu notre bac en circlepitologie appliquée à la faculté du rock de l’UQÀV (Université du Québec À Verdun) et, malgré tout, on n’a pas la science infuse.
-Charles de Villers, Urbania Musique
LANGUE SALE : STEVE « DIDDY » JOLIN EST DE RETOUR SUR LE MICRO (fr)
Parce qu’on aura jamais assez de collaborations entre artistes de haut calibre au Québec, les gars de Brown Family ont sorti une deuxième version de leur gros track Nervous, dont la mouture originale réunissait Jam, FouKi, KNLO et Eman.
-Simon Tousignant, Urbania Musique
Bavardage durant les concerts : un peu de silence… s’il vous plaît! (fr)
Centre Bell, le 13 juin 2018. Pour la neuvième ou la dixième fois depuis une heure, soit depuis le début du concert de Paul Simon, le type dans la rangée derrière moi se remet à parler avec son voisin. Sauf que cette fois, il le fait au moment où l’Américain interprète Bridge Over Troubled Water. C’est la goutte qui fait déborder le vase.
-Philippe Rezzonico, Ici Radio Canada
ELLIOT MAGINOT CHANTE NOËL (fr)
Le stress des achats de cadeaux commence à se faire sentir, mais, heureusement, Elliot Maginotest là pour nous apaiser avec la sortie d’une douce et jolie chanson de Noël, «en guise de cadeau pour souligner sa période préférée de l’année», nous informe le communiqué de presse.
-Valérie Thérien, Voir
CHARLOTTE CARDIN LANCE UN NOUVEAU TITRE EN FRANÇAIS (fr)
Un mois à peine après avoir lancé l’extrait dans la langue de Shakespeare Double Shifts, la jeune chanteuse québécoise nous offre aujourd’hui une nouvelle chanson en français, Les jupes.
-Valérie Thérien, Voir
«Noëls baroques français»: une digne contribution québécoise (fr)
Le concert donné dimanche par le baryton Hugo Laporte, lauréat du Concours OSM-Manuvie en 2014, Luc Beauséjour et son ensemble Clavecin en concert revêtait une importance particulière, car il sera l’ambassadeur musical du pays à l’occasion des Fêtes.
-Christophe Huss, le Devoir
JÉRÔME MINIÈRE : SORTI DU BOIS (fr)
Avec son neuvième album, Jérôme Minière fait table rase du passé et s’aventure «dans la forêt numérique».
–Olivier Boisvert-Magnen, Voir
Canada
L’Association des professionnels de la chanson et de la musique dénonce les coupes de Ford (fr)
Le financement alloué au CAO par la province a été abaissé à 64,9 millions $, au lieu des 69,9 M$ attendus, pour l’exercice budgétaire couvrant la période du 1er avril 2018 au 31 mars 2019, a rapporté vendredi Radio-Canada.
-Yves Bergeras, Le Droit
Funding unveiled for new $13-million arts centre in downtown Halifax (en)
HALIFAX — A proposed $13-million arts centre in downtown Halifax is closer to fruition, with the announcement of more than $10 million in federal and provincial funding.
The Link Performing Arts Centre would be an arts and culture hub at the former World Trade and Convention Centre across from Halifax City Hall and the Grand Parade.
–The Canadian Press, The Chronicle Herald
Montebello prête à collaborer (fr)
C’est essentiellement le message qu’a lancé le maire de Montebello, Martin Deschênes, au lendemain d’une rencontre à huis clos qui s’est soldée tard mardi soir et à laquelle ont pris part le conseil municipal et le fondateur et vice-président du Rockfest, Alex Martel.
-Benoit Sabourin, Le Droit
Lyman Potts was a founding father of Canada’s music industry (en)
Lyman Potts compiled a huge catalogue of Canadian content for radio stations. He did it not because some government edict told him to, but because he wanted to. Mr. Potts, who has died at 102, built the foundations for the Canadian music industry by creating domestic content for radio stations, recording bands and singers in a collection called the Canadian Talent Library.
-Fred Lagan, The Glob and Mail
International
In a world of ‘algorithmic culture,’ music critics fight for relevance (en)
A WHITE, CHART-TOPPING RAPPER criticized as “an avatar of algorithm culture.” A young, major-label rock debut dismissed as “an algorithmic fever dream.” A 20-year-old band’s first release after a five-year hiatus bashed as “more like a streaming algorithm than a coherent album.”
-Cherie Hu, Columbia Journalist Review
Need Tickets? Get in Line, as Emails Reveal How Brokers Get First Crack at Tix for Big Arena Show (en)
Country star Eric Church and his management team are known for pushing back against ticket scalping; on his 2017 tour, they canceled the tickets of brokers and those they suspected were professional resellers.
-Dave Brooks, Billboard
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Music Royalties (en)
The music biz is a fickle mistress. There’s a metric fuck-ton of money floating around behind the scenes, yet for some reason artists themselves often don’t receive a decent payout
-Keyla, Metalsucks
24 Music Industry Predictions for 2019 (en)
The music industry is constantly evolving and changing. With 2018 just about in the books, it’s time to look ahead to 2019. We’ve asked a number of music industry professionals to give us their thoughts for the music business for 2019.
-Edmsauce
The Art Of Artist Development: Knowing When To Play The Long Game Versus Skipping Steps (en)
For the past three decades that Pollstar has featured rising artists as Hotstars, one constant when talking to agents or managers seems to be a philosophy of taking time to diligently build careers and fanbases through calculated room sequences, rather than fast-tracking acts to bigger stages
-Sarah Pittman, Pollstar
Why the Music Business Can’t Afford to Ignore the Middle East In 2019 (en)
When the IFPI released its 2018 Global Music Report in Apr. 2018, one region was completely absent from its pages: the Middle East.
-Cherie Hu, Billboard Biz
Global Recorded Music Revenues Expected to Hit $18.9 Billion This Year — But Growth Is Slowing (en)
According to a new report, global recorded music revenue will likely hit $18.9 billion at the end of this year.
That’s based on an analysis of the first three quarters of the year and early indicators for Q4 2018, with Midia Research’s Mark Mulligan compiling the estimates.
-Daniel Sanchez, Digital Music News
UK Music Diversity Study Finds ‘Things Are Changing For The Better’(en)
Having long been viewed as a predominantly white and male run industry, measures to improve diversity in the British music business are beginning to bear fruit, finds a new study from umbrella organization UK Music.
-Richard Smirke, Billboard Biz
MP3 Resales Constitute Copyright Infringement, U.S. Appeals Court Rules (en)
The United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with copyright owners and has confirmed that the resale of MP3s online is not protected by the first-sale doctrine.
Instead, the reproduction and sale of an MP3 is considered copyright infringement, according to the ruling.
-Marsha Silva, Digital Music News
Héritage Hallyday: la justice gèle des revenus tirés des ventes d’albums (fr)
Depuis plusieurs mois, Laura Smet et David Hallyday contestent la succession de leur père, décédé en décembre 2017, qui a tout légué à sa dernière épouse Laeticia Hallyday et leurs deux filles Jade et Joy.
-Agence France-Presse, lapresse.ca
IS ONLINE TICKET TOUTING ALMOST OVER? (en)
Semantics are everything. Around ten years ago, when the music copyright business was grappling with ‘file sharing’, the response from certain quarters was to crack down on this practice; to ‘educate’ consumers, and have ISPs send cease-or-desist letters to offending customers.
-Music Business Worldwide
Live Nation Announces Plans to Acquire Swiss Promoter Mainland Music (en)
Co-founded in 2012 by longtime partners Christian Gremelmayr, Derrick Thomson, Marc Lambelet, Martin Schrader and Santosh Aerthott, Mainlland has offices in Zurich and Lausanne and will help Live Nation grow its presence in Switzerland while assisting the publicly traded concert giant with tours and other promotion opportunities.
-Dave Brooks, Billboard Biz
Ed Sheeran Tops the 2018 Touring List With $432.4 Million In Receipts — Easily Beating Out Taylor Swift (en)
Move over Taylor Swift; there’s a new top-grossing performer for 2018. Ed Sheeran has surpassed Swift to become the highest grossing touring artist in a single year.
-Ashley King, Digital Music News
The Cure, Radiohead et Janet Jackson entreront au Hall of Fame (fr)
La cuvée 2019 est complétée par trois autres groupes britanniques, Def Leppard, Roxy Music et The Zombies, qui représentent trois styles très différents, ainsi que par la chanteuse américaine Stevie Nicks, déjà membre avec son groupe Fleetwood Mac mais honorée cette fois-ci à titre individuel.
-Agence France-Presse, lapresse.ca
When music is your side gig: how to stay motivated, efficient, and sane (en)
If you’re a part-time musician, you know the struggle. You want to make music, but you run out of time in a day. Or you lose heart. Or your music time is not as efficient as you want it to be.
-Caleb J. Murphy, Music Career Advice
Atlantic Records Drops Adam22’s No Jumper Label Deal Following Sexual Assault Allegations (en)
Atlantic Records and popular hip-hop podcast and video blog personality Adam « Adam22 » Grandmaison have « parted ways, » a spokesperson for the record label tells Billboard. The Daily Beast first reported the news.
–Colin Stutz, Billboard Biz
Tencent Music Shares Rise on First Trading Day (en)
Shares in Chinese streaming music giant Tencent Music Entertainment rose nearly 8 percent to $14 on Thursday, their first day of trade.
-Associated Press, Billboard Biz
Apple Acquires Artist Development & Creative Services Firm Platoon (en)
Apple has acquired London-based creative services firm Platoon, Billboard has confirmed. The company was founded in 2016 by music industry veteran Denzyl Feigelson and LoveFilm co-founder Saul Klein, going on to help develop breakout acts such as Billie Eilish, Stefflon Don and Jorja Smith.
-Colin Stutz, Billboard Biz
Taylor Swift : son live « Reputation Stadium Tour » sur Netflix le 31 décembre (fr)
Après avoir rencontré un énorme succès sur les routes du monde entier, Taylor Swift sortira le live de son « Reputation Stadium Tour » dès le 31 décembre. Mais celui-ci sera uniquement disponible sur Netflix !
-Purebreak Charts
Renaud : « Sans la Sacem, nous ne serions rien ou presque, des Gilets jaunes… »(fr)
S’exprimant au nom des artistes auteurs et compositeurs de musiques, le chanteur Renaud a estimé lundi soir à Paris, lors d’une cérémonie de remise des Prix annuels de la Sacem : « Sans la Sacem, nous ne serions rien ou presque rien, des Gilets jaunes… »
-Culturebox (avec AFP)
Jessie Reyez celebrates Double Platinum plaque at hometown show (en)
Following a sold out two-night run last week at the Danforth Music Hall in her hometown of Toronto, rising singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez was presented with a Double Platinum plaque by Universal Music Canada staff for her breakthrough hit “Figures.”
–Bram Gonshor, Music Canada
Numérique
LATEST VERSION OF ARTICLE 13 WILL FAIL TO FIX YOUTUBE ‘VALUE GAP’, WARNS VIVENDI AND THE RECORD INDUSTRY (en)
The global music industry could be set for a crushing blow.
Universal Music Group owner Vivendi has joined leading record business organizations to warn that recent alterations to the draft version of the new European Copyright Directive are poised to severely disappoint music rights-holders across the world.
-Tim Ingham, Music Business Worldwide
What’s the Most Popular Music Streaming Service of 2018? (en)
2018 will go down as a big year for music streaming services. Millions of people around the globe are transitioning to digital music as a subscription service, ditching CDs and even the pay-per-download model
-Nicholas Rossolillo, The Motley Fool
TIDAL LAUNCHES PERSONALIZED PLAYLISTS (en)
My Mix uses a ‘state-of-the-art’ proprietary algorithm which combines data from users’ listening habits and input from TIDAL’s ‘expertly’ human-curated playlists.
-Music Business Worldwide
Spotify’s Stock Crashes Below $120 for the First Time Ever — $14.2 Billion In Market Cap Lost In 5 Months (en)
Shares of Spotify (SPOT) crashed to another all-time low in Tuesday trading, with a sub-$120 valuation briefly brushed. By the Wall Street bell at 4 pm ET, SPOT was resting at $120.51, barely above the $120-mark.
–Paul Resnikoff, Music Business Worldwide
SOUNDCLOUD LAUNCHES FIRST DJ SOFTWARE INTEGRATION WITH SERATO (en)
The move, announced in a blog post on Wednesday (December 12), follows the announcement in October that the platform had partnered with six DJ software companies, including Native Instruments, Serato, Virtual DJ, DEX3, Mixvibes and Hercules.
-Music Business Worldwide
