balancing your emotional and physical voice
Owner & Director of Studio E Music and Arts
Credits include: Another Bad Creation, Boyz II Men, TLC, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, and most recently Cedric Gervais, Kodie Shane, Klondie Blonde, and many others in addition to collaborations with Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Lionel Ritchie, Nathalie Cole and Sia
REGISTER NOW
WHERE MUSIC, TECH + BIZ CONVERGE
Now in its 38th year, the Canadian Music Week Conference is still the premier annual music business and networking event in Canada, and this time around it’s being produced live, online & streamed worldwide. We’re innovating due to COIVD-19 and we promise to deliver a world class experience.
This year we’re featuring a 4-day music summit covering all sectors of the industry delivered in a totally interactive streamed format. We’re excited to provide a platform for domestic and international delegates to exchange ideas, explore trends & make meetings connections COMPLETELY ONLINE. Join us this May 18-21 for an amazing array of live streaming sessions from industry pro’s about breakthroughs and insights into global challenges facing an ever-changing music landscape.
Keynotes, speakers, panels, workshops, master classes and receptions all taking place in a virtual format.
STREAMING | MAY 18-21 2021
REGISTER NOW
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Nile Rodgers and Merck Mercuriadis
Music legend, Nile Rodgers. has written, produced, and performed on albums that have cumulatively sold over 500 million albums worldwide. Merck Mercuriadis is one of the most successful music managers and entrepreneurs of all time. Their latest venture, Hipgnosis Songs Fund.
Up Close and Personal Conversation with Timbaland
Timothy Zachery Mosley, professionally known as Timbaland, is a legendary American record producer, rapper, DJ, singer and songwriter, well known for hits like ‘Give It to...
Born to Produce: A Fireside Chat with Dallas Austin
Dallas Austin, Grammy Award Winning Producer, It’s not everyone whose Grade 11 teacher tells his mom to let him quit school and follow his dream. But even as a teenager who...
MAY 18-21, 2021
EMERGING ARTIST AND BANDS
PERFORM VIRTUALLY
“Artist Of The Year” Monowhales Confirmed To Perform On Indies Awards
The INDIE AWARDS Presented by Jim Beam Whiskey and Indie 88 Fuelled by a passionate desire to create a sound as unapologetic and powerful as the personalities within the...
Protesting and Playing: Buffy Sainte-Marie Live at the CMW Festival 2021
Buffy introduces songs from her new album "Medicine Songs". This is a collection of front line songs about unity and resistance – some brand new and some classics –...
Canadian Music Week Festival Welcomes Amsterdam Brewery As Official Beer Sponsor
Canadian Music Week (CMW) is proud to welcome Amsterdam Brewery, as the Official Beer Sponsor of 2021 CMW Festival, taking place at various locations in downtown Toronto....
MORE INFO
CMW AWARDS HIGHLIGHTS
Comic Adam Growe To MC New Radio and Audio Awards Luncheon
For over 30 years, Adam Growe has been performing in radio, television, and on-stage. In addition to hosting 8 seasons of Cash Cab, Adam is a highly sought after event host and an accomplished stand-up comedian, starring in Just for Laughs, Comedy NOW!,...
Funny Man Darrin Rose to Host Music and Broadcast Industry Gala Dinner
Darrin Rose is one of Canada’s most popular comedians, and an award-winning writer and actor. He plays Bill on the hit CBC sitcom Mr. D, now in its eighth sea-son. He is currently a writer on the CBS sitcom Happy Together starring Damon Wayans Jr. He was the host of...
Debra Rathwell Headed For Music Industry Hall Of Fame
Canadian Music Week has announced that Debra Rathwell, Executive VP, Global Touring & Talent at AEG Presents, will be inducted into the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. She is to be honoured for her remarkable career in the music industry...
In Memoriam: Nevin Grant to be Inducted into Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame, Receiving Allan Waters Lifetime Achievement Award
Early this year Canadian Music Week announced that Nevin Grant of CKOC was to be inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame, and be the recipient of the Allan Waters Lifetime Achievement Award which is presented in recognition of Nevin’s...
Iconic Indigenous Musician and Activist Buffy Sainte-Marie To Receive Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award
Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce Buffy Sainte-Marie as the 2021 recipient of the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. Buffy will be honoured for her work over the last 60 years as a trailblazing musician, activist and educator at the...
Rock Icon Kim Mitchell to be Inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame During CMW
Toronto, ON– The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) has partnered with North America’s leading entertainment festival and conference, Canadian Music Week (CMW), to celebrate the induction of rock legend, songwriter, and broadcaster Kim Mitchell to the Canadian...
AWARDS INDUSTRY NEWS
Diane Warren, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Who Won Golden Globes’ Music Races in 2011, Repeat 10 Years Later
The list of music winners at the Golden Globes Sunday night bore a strange resemblance to the list of honorees in those two categories 10 years ago.
Paul Shaffer Enters Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
Co-penned by Paul Shaffer and Paul Jabara in 1979 and originally intended for Donna Summer, It’s Raining Men became a massive hit for The Weather Girls in 1982, reaching No. 1 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart and all these years later earns Shaffer recognition
Grammy Week to Kick Off With ‘Women in the Mix’ Event Featuring Cyndi Lauper, Ingrid Andress, Sheila E., More
Grammy Week 2021 will kick off with a new event titled “Women in the Mix,” which aims to highlight and amplify the voices of female producers, engineers, artists and executives in the music industry.
Academy Of Country Music® Announces Nominees For Radio Awards Categories For The 56th Academy Of Country Music Awards
The Radio Awards winners will be announced ahead of the 56th ACM Awards in April and more info to follow in the coming months. The 56TH ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS™ will broadcast LIVE on Sunday, April 18
Morgan Wallen not eligible to participate in Academy of Country Music Awards
Country musician Morgan Wallen, who has come under fire for using a racial slur in a video released outside his Nashville home, is no longer eligible to participate in this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards.
MTV postpones its Africa Music Awards as Bobi Wine’s team releases report documenting alleged abuses
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine. After an online campaign urging MTV Base to cancel its annual MTV Africa Music Awards over allegations of human rights abuses by the Ugandan government, the TV channel postponed the awards
MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS
Canada’s Anthem Entertainment ups spending power by $550 Million
Significant Equity Investment by Ontario Teachers Fund and $550 Million Syndicated Credit Facility comprised of $400 Million Revolving Credit Facility Plus $150 Million Accordion
David Crosby Sells Music Catalog to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists
Deal includes songs from his solo work, The Byrds and Crosby, Stills and Nash
Michael Gudinski dies at 68
Australian music mogul Michael Gudinski, AM, has died in Melbourne aged 68.
Big Hit Entertainment invests in synthetic voice firm Supertone
The company behind K-Pop megastars BTS has announced the investment of 4 billion KRW (approximately $3.6m) into a Korea-based Artificial Intelligence company called Supertone.
OverActive Media to build $500M esports, entertainment venue in Toronto
TORONTO — Esports in Toronto will have a permanent home in about four years’ time.
Apple Music Launches ‘Behind The Songs’ Portal Focusing On Songwriters
Apple Music thrives on content curation and today they’ve launched “Behind The Songs,” a new portal focused on those on the front line of music creation- the songwriters
FESTIVAL INDUSTRY NEWS
European Festivals: Reading and Leeds Sell Out, Download and Primavera Sound Postpone
Two of the UK’s most beloved festivals, Reading and Leeds, announced that they would go ahead, Aug. 27-29, and almost all tickets have been snatched up in no time.
13th Green Events & Innovations Conference To Kick Off ILMC 33
ILMC 33 is a week away and, as usual, the main conference is kicked off by two sister events, the ILMC Production Meeting (IPM) as well as the Green Events & Innovations Conference (GEI), both taking place March 2.
Live Nation CEO Says U.S. Music Festivals Could Reopen by ‘Mid-Summer
Live Nation has taken a timeline provided by the British government as an all-clear for the summer festival season, selling some 170,000 tickets this week to three major U.K. summer festivals
Carnegie Hall Cancels Its Performance Season for the First Time In Its 130-Year History
As a result of “the ongoing effects of COVID-19,” Carnegie Hall has canceled its performance season for the first time since 1891.
Doc Films About Demi Lovato, Tom Petty Headline SXSW 2021
Documentaries about Demi Lovato, Tom Petty, Selma Blair and Charli XCX are among the films set to premiere at next month’s South by Southwest Film Festival.
Ticketmaster Creates Division To Run New Livestream Show Service
Ticketmaster has created a new global music team to oversee its newly launched international livestream show ticketing platform Ticketmaster Livestream, with the aim of capitalising on the burgeoning digital events sector.
RADIO INDUSTRY NEWS
Top Track of the Week; Justin Bieber HOLY -feat. Chance The Rapper
To view the full list of top 100 Radio spins in Canada click this link brought to you by RadioMonitor.com
Data Shows Podcast Is Growing Across Metrics Ranging From Reach To CPMs.
Podcasting is growing so quickly that Stephanie Donovan, Senior VP of Publisher Development at Triton Digital, joked during Wednesday’s RAIN Podcast Business Summit that some of her numbers would probably look a lot different if she returned to next year’s conference.
Pittman: iHeart Poised For Return To 2019 Revenues By End of 2021.
While it’s difficult to predict with accuracy the pace of the COVID-19 ad recovery, senior executives at iHeartMedia said Thursday that their business is on track to return to 2019 performance levels by the end of 2021.
Spotify Expands International Footprint, Bringing Audio to 80+ New Markets
Spotify is embarking on a sweeping expansion that will introduce the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service available to more than a billion people in 80+ new markets
IHeartMedia’s Triton Digital Acquisition Will Consolidate Its Dominance Of Ad-Based Audio
iHeartMedia IHRT 0.0% yesterday announced that it is acquiring Triton Digital, a digital audio publishing, advertising, and audience measurement business, from E.W. Scripps SSP +1.2% for $230 million.
Humble and Fred announce they’re leaving terrestrial radio behind
Humble & Fred announced Thursday that they are leaving terrestrial radio behind for good, revealing that their show on Bell Media’s Funny 820 (CHAM-AM) Hamilton, was also a casualty of the company’s recent operational streamlining.