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While social media provides artists with direct access to fans and diversifies the music landscape, challenges such as saturation, decline in album sales, piracy facilitation, and negative effects on mental health arise.

Facial recognition technology used at concert venues lead to a boycott by 100 artists led by the digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future. Where is this all going?

American promoter Ethan Schwartz tells The Music Void how Pavement, Wilco and Umphrey's McGee bonded with the faraway destination for music lovers.

Day Three of CMW highlighted discussions about royalties and funding for new artists.

Paul McCartney revealed that The Beatles’ new recording featuring additions from artificial intelligence will be released later this year. With a little help from AI, the voice of John Lennon was retrieved from an old demo, also subsequently completed by the technology. Although the name of the song hasn’t been revealed, it is believed to be “Now and Then”, a 1978’s composition written by Lennon at his New York apartment. It was one of the compositions featured on a cassette labelled “For Paul”.

Day Two of last week's CMW featured panels on a potpouri of subjects. Today we focus on music marketing and the relationship between music and cannabis.

The 41st Canadian Music Week (CMW) kicked off at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto last week, with a jam-packed schedule of events and performances. The evenings were filled with some of the brightest new and established Canadian artists, including Charlotte Cardin, Tumble, Fuego, Grace May, Virginia To Vegas, and Badflower. The days were filled with a series of expert panels covering topics from sync licensing to Afrobeats to new release marketing strategies.