Un véritable scandale ! [Alain Simard]

Depuis quatre ans, aucune mesure contraignante n’a encore été prise par Ottawa pour corriger l’avantage injuste dont bénéficient les Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime et autres Apple Music ou TV, d’empocher des milliards pour envahir le marché canadien sans l’obligation de contribuer à sa production culturelle nationale, contrairement aux diffuseurs d’ici dont ils accaparent les parts de marché et les revenus publicitaires. Et voilà qu’une première législation en ce sens risque de mourir au feuilleton si des élections étaient déclenchées !

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La SOCAN annonce ses résultats financiers pour 2020

Malgré les défis posés par la pandémie, la SOCAN a connu une baisse globale de ses revenus de seulement 4 %, principalement en raison de 10 mois sans revenus provenant des concerts en personne et de l'utilisation de musique enregistrée en public. Cette baisse a été compensée par une augmentation des perceptions provenant de sources numériques et internationales.

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How the Heck Is Peloton the Best-Paying Music Streaming Service?

Per music industry blog the Trichordist’s most recent “Streaming Price Bible,” Peloton’s payout rate per stream based on 2019 measurements was a whopping 3.1 cents, far exceeding the fractions offered to music rights holders by Spotify (0.35 cents), Apple Music (0.68 cents), YouTube (0.15 cents), and Tidal (0.88 cents), among others.

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SoundExchange Expanding Into Private Copy Royalty Collection in the U.S.

The nonprofit appointed by the U.S. Congress to collect and distribute performance royalties for non-interactive digital music streams, is expanding its operation to encompass domestic and foreign private copy royalties.
The organization will take over the collection and distribution of private copy royalties in the U.S. from the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies (AARC), which will cease operations after distributing all available royalties it has collected since 2018 later this year.

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MRC Data’s 2021 Canada Midyear Report

Nearly 16 months after the COVID-19 pandemic led to global shutdowns, consumers are finally starting to return to the activities they love, and music remains at the top of that list. Overall consumption grew 10.6% year-over-year (YOY) during the first six months of 2021 (thanks to an 11.4% lift in on-demand streaming), helped by new releases from Canadian stars Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Shawn Mendes and The Tragically Hip. These encouraging growth rates come a year after on-demand audio streaming saw a 7.6% decline during the first eight weeks of COVID-19 lockdowns, from mid-March to mid-May 2020, a sign that music is still playing an increasing role in consumers’ daily habits as Canada reopens.

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Spotify Fan Study: What it tells us about RELEASING NEW MUSIC

Release “Days” are a thing of the past – nowadays, artists should focus on amplifying their releases and gaining as many opportunities as possible through the release.
Spotify’s Fan Study shows how business-savvy artists can get the most out of every single release.

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MPs call for complete reset of music streaming to ensure fair pay for artists

The music industry is weighted against artists, with even successful pop stars seeing "pitiful returns" from streaming, a committee of MPs has said.
They are calling for a "complete reset" of the market, with musicians given a "fair share" of the £736.5 million that UK record labels earn from streaming.
In a report, they said royalties should be split 50/50, instead of the current rate, where artists receive about 16%.

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Droits voisins: l'Autorité de la concurrence inflige 500 millions d'euros d'amende à Google

C'est une nouvelle sanction d'ampleur que l'Autorité de la concurrence a infligé à Google. Un mois après avoir condamné le groupe américain à 220 millions d'euros pour abus de position dominante dans le secteur de la publicité digitale, le gendarme de la concurrence français impose une amende de 500 millions d'euros à Google, qui n'a pas négocié de bonne foi avec les éditeurs de presse dans le cadre de la législation sur les droits voisins, adoptée en 2019.

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Sony Music Publishing is officially set to administer the entire catalog of AC/DC, as part of a broader partnership with Australian music company Alberts.

Sony Music Publishing – which inked a global publishing deal with Relative Music Group late last month – unveiled its agreement with Alberts. For reference, the Albert family sold J. Albert & Son, the publishing and recording division of their company, to BMG in 2016.
However, they retained rights to the (formerly BMG-administered) catalogs of AC/DC and songwriting/production team Harry Vanda, George Young, and Stevie Wright (of The Easybeats). Now, the “worldwide” Sony Music Publishing-Alberts deal will bring AC/DC’s “publishing and recording rights together under the Sony banner for the first time.”

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Spotify still #1, but Amazon, Google, Tencent made big gains [MIDiA Global Subscriber Report]

The music industry’s growing obsession with declining ARPU will continue to colour the outlook for the global streaming market in revenue terms, but the positive driver of this equation is the rapid growth of music subscribers. There were 100 million new music subscribers in 2020, taking the total to 467 million. (In 2019 there were just 83 million net new subscribers).

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Plus récent portrait numérique des régions administratives du Québec

L’enquête révèle que 94 % des adultes québécois disposaient d’une connexion Internet à la maison. La région de Montréal est celle où le taux de foyers branchés à Internet est le plus élevé (96 %), tandis que la région de la Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine est celle qui présente le taux le plus bas (85 %).

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Could This Technology, Built by a Grammy-Winning Producer, Blow Up Music’s ‘Black Box’ Once And For All?

How big is this black box problem across music publishing and the recorded music industry? We… don’t really know. No-one does. It’s definitely a nine-figure problem. Some say it’s even a ten-figure problem.
What we can be certain of: a mountain of money out there is not getting to the right people. Now, a new technology, born from the brain of a Grammy-winning producer/engineer isn’t just looking to solve the ‘black box’ – it’s looking to blow it up entirely.

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Whisper it quietly: Deezer is getting into ASMR content

We didn’t expect to be starting our day listening to Sir Tom Jones hissing ‘What’s New Pussycat?’ out of our speakers, but that’s 2021 for you. Jones has re-recorded his famous track for Deezer as part of the streaming service’s new push around ASMR content.
That’d be Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response: sounds designed to give your scalp a tingle (or, depending on your preferences on YouTube, a chance to hear people crunching fried chicken or suggestively rubbing microphones in varying degrees of undress).

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