Détails prolongation de la mesure particulière à la diffusion
de spectacles québécois du CALQ

En début de semaine dernière, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec a annoncé la poursuite de la Mesure particulière à la diffusion de spectacles québécois pour l’exercice allant du 1er avril 2022 au 31 mars 2023. Cette prolongation s’inscrit dans le cadre du Plan pour consolider, faire briller et propulser le milieu culturel, dévoilé par la ministre de la Culture et des Communications, le 10 avril dernier. Pour rappel, ce plan comporte notamment le maintien des deux mesures de soutien au spectacle (CALQ et SODEC) à hauteur de 32,5 M$.

Veuillez noter que la SODEC donnera d’ici 2 semaines des détails quant aux nouvelles modalités d’accès à l’aide temporaire à la représentation de spectacles de musique et de variétés.

Midem is saved: Historic music trade expo resurrected in deal with City of Cannes

After a year of negotiation, RX France – the owner of subsidiary Reed Midem – recently sold the Midem brand to the City of Cannes Municipality.
Confirming the return of the event, the City of Cannes announced (translated) that it is taking over the Midem brand – under the leadership of Cannes Mayor David Lisnard – to give it “a second wind”.

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ByteDance se rêve en géant de l'industrie musicale

Plus rien ne semble arrêter ByteDance. Six ans après avoir lancé TikTok, la start-up chinoise intensifie ses efforts pour devenir l'un des poids lourds de la musique. Elle vient même de lancer son propre service de streaming dans l'empire du Milieu. Décryptage.

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Indie recordings grew UK consumption share again in 2021

Independently released music in the UK enjoyed its fourth consecutive year of growth in terms of consumption share last year, according to some number crunching from record industry trade group BPI, which has today published its latest ‘All About The Music’ report.

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Why Singer's Have Such Success With One-Hit Wonders

One-hit wonders are a phenomenon that have been around forever. Now, researchers are digging into what separates one-hit wonders from consistent hitmakers. Their findings may spark inspiration for creators (from musicians to painters to writers) who are trying to hone their craft.

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Data is a precious resource and Canada needs to treat it as such

Canada needs new data standards, regulatory systems and legal infrastructure for guiding the healthy evolution of our data economy."
Canada needs new data standards, regulatory systems and legal infrastructure for guiding the healthy evolution of our data economy.

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Judges in the US have hinted that the mechanical royalty rate paid to publishers and songwriters for vinyl sales should rise. The major labels’ lawyers have come out swinging.

There’s a very important debate going on in the US over certain types of mechanical royalty rates paid to songwriters right now, and you need to know about it.
That’s partly because it’s pretty fascinating stuff, and partly because it prods at some tender areas of the power balance dominating the modern music industry.

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Musique : les catalogues, nouveau graal des majors et des fonds

L’édition musicale connaît une nouvelle jeunesse avec le streaming et la circulation nouvelle des musiques dans des contextes très variés. Elle génère en outre des revenus réguliers, autant d’avantages qui favorisent une inflation des prix des catalogues.

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Deezer va entrer en Bourse : comment l'éternel challenger du streaming musical a trouvé sa place face à Spotify et Apple Music

Le champion français du streaming musical reste un nain par rapport aux leaders mondiaux Spotify et Apple Music, mais sa stratégie axée sur la France et certains marchés stratégiques dans des pays émergents (Brésil, Mexique, Moyen-Orient...) lui a permis de consolider sa place d'éternel challenger. Au point d'envisager une entrée en Bourse via le SPAC I2PO, détenu notamment par la famille Pinault et Matthieu Pigasse.

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Deezer adds in-app lyrics translation to its service

Real-time lyrics are increasingly standard across the major streaming services, but Deezer is hoping to steal a march on its rivals by also offering translated lyrics. It has chosen 10,000 of its most popular English-language tracks and provided translations in French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, accessed through a ‘With Translation’ button.

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Spotify adds new functionality to its in-car listening device

Spotify last week announced some updates to Car Thing, its proprietary device for in-car listening that is currently only available in the US.
The streaming firm’s first move into hardware began with tests in 2019, before going into pilot mode last year. The device then became properly available for US premium Spotify subscribers back in February.

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