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      TORONTO, ON - (October 1, 2018) - Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce Steve Herman (SVP, Touring - Live Nation) as the 2019 inductee to the Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. Steve will be honoured for his achievements and longstanding career in the music industry at the annual Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards Gala Dinner at Rebel…

  Announcing Spotlight on Poland and Eastern Europe at CMW 2020   The 2020 ‘Spotlight on Poland’ marks the first-ever official music mission from Poland to CMW, and the first-ever official music mission from Canada to Poland.   As part of our outreach to Poland, CMW has organized an outbound mission from Canada to participate at the POLAND 2018 MUSIC…

For the last two decades, technology executives and investors have predicted the demise of the record label with a consistency that borders on the cliché. Once music is consumed digitally, the thinking goes, who needs the manufacturing and distribution that labels always provided – especially when it comes with contractual terms that always seem to favor them? Since…

Recording artists received just 12% of the $43 billion that the music industry generated in 2017, according to a Citigroup report published on Monday, and led by analyst Jason B. Bazinet. $43 billion matches a 12-year peak that the industry hasn't hit since 2006, the report said. The proportion of the total music industry revenue artists are…

Showcase at Canadian Music Week 2019! Applications are Now Open!   Each year Canadian Music Week attracts thousands of artists and industry from around the world to gather in Toronto, ON for an entire week of live music, learning, and making new connections. Now is your chance to take part in it! Spend your days attending panels, one-on-one meetings, and more…

Financially-interested watchers of the music business will know all about Spotify's recent flotation on the New York Stock Exchange - and its eye-catching NYSE ticker, SPOT. Over in London, however, there's about to be another successful flotation in music, complete with another attention-grabbing fiscal ticker - SONG. Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd, the vehicle set up by veteran…

Anka and Jackson spent a month writing, recording for a duets album in 1983   CBC News ·  Posted: Jun 29, 2018 1:48 PM ET | Last Updated: June 29   Dig into the liner notes for Drake's new album and you'll come across a name familiar to perhaps a different segment of music fans: celebrated Canadian crooner Paul…

  OVER 100 FESTIVALS JOIN KEYCHANGE PLEDGE TO TACKLE GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!   Festivals newly committed to PRS Foundation’s Keychange pledge include MaMA Festival (France), Jazzfest Berlin (Germany), Africa Oyé (UK), Oxjam Camden (UK) and more New York’s A2IM Indie Music Week promote Keychange in the US with panel discussion and showcase…

For Immediate Release: May 25, 2018 · Please add to your listings/announcements   Canadian Music Week A Successful 2018!   The 36th Annual Canadian Music Week (CMW), which took place May 7 – 13, 2018, packed conference rooms at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel and dozens of music venues across the city of Toronto with…

CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK ANNOUNCES THE 2018 JIM BEAM INDIES WITH INDIE88 WINNERS   Canadian Music Week is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2018 Indies - presented by Jim Beam with Indie88 at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in downtown Toronto, hosted by Indie88's Josie Dye, Matt Hart, and Carlin Burton. Jessie Reyez, Gord Downie, Death from Above 1979, and The…