New funding is coming to the Canadian music trade.
Pascale St-Onge, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, introduced on the Juno Awards on March 24 that the federal government will enhance the Canada Music Fund by $32 million over the following two fiscal years.
The Canada Music Fund helps each FACTOR and Musicaction. These granting our bodies present artists, labels and different organizations with funding for a variety of actions, together with recording, touring, advertising and marketing and music video manufacturing.
The announcement — although welcomed by Canadian music associations just like the Canadian Unbiased Music Affiliation (CIMA) and the Canadian Stay Music Affiliation (CLMA) — falls in need of the $50 million that the Liberal authorities dedicated to in 2021, and the $60 million enhance referred to as for by the trade teams.
FACTOR has traditionally obtained important funds from Canada’s personal radio broadcasters, however as these contributions decline, CIMA and CLMA have been sounding the alarm concerning the group’s potential to satisfy the wants of Canadian artists. FACTOR’s funding challenges come at a time when many artists and organizations are struggling to remain afloat amidst a price of residing disaster.
“CIMA applauds the federal government’s elevated funding within the Canada Music Fund,” mentioned CIMA president Andrew Money. “This can be a recognition of music’s important contribution to our cultural material and nationwide economic system.”
L’ADISQ, Quebec’s Affiliation of the Document, Present and Video Trade, highlights that Musicaction — which primarily helps French-speaking tasks — has already made cuts in current months, and this enhance will stop an extra discount in capability. The affiliation calls the announcement a step in the proper route, however emphasizes the tough financial context dealing with music organizations with fewer sources.
The Canadian Stay Music Affiliation echoes l’ADISQ’s sentiment, calling the rise “an excellent begin,” and reiterating the powerful circumstances trade members are dealing with. The Canada Music Fund enhance was one among three suggestions CLMA put ahead for the upcoming federal price range, which the group hoped would take “pressing motion” to guard the stay music sector.
With the total price range nonetheless to come back, extra assist measures could possibly be in retailer for Canada’s music sector. -Rosie Lengthy Decter
Canada Ranked eighth Largest International Music Market In New IFPI Report
Canada’s recorded music revenues are sturdy, in accordance with a brand new report from IFPI.
The IFPI’s 2024 State of the Trade report takes a deep dive into the state of recorded music all over the world, and ranks Canada eighth when it comes to world music markets in 2023, sustaining the nation’s spot within the high ten. Canada’s music market grew by 12.19% final 12 months, reaching US$659.6 million in revenues. That development outpaced each the U.S. market, which grew by 7.2%, and world development of 10.2% — the second highest recorded world development charge, in accordance with the report.
Some particular person Canadian artists did properly on a world scale, too: the report ranks Drake and The Weeknd at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, in its International Artist 2023 chart, which considers artist, observe and album efficiency. Taylor Swift took the highest spot there, adopted by South Korean teams SEVENTEEN and Stray Youngsters.
A assertion from IFPI, which represents the worldwide recording trade, and Music Canada, an affiliation representing main Canadian labels, attributes a lot of Canada’s income development to streaming revenues, which jumped by 8.6% right here, and subscription streaming particularly, which elevated by 10.1%. The associations emphasize the challenges posed by streaming manipulation, highlighting IFPI’s current authorized grievance in opposition to 9 Canadian-based websites that bought fraudulent streams. The websites at the moment are offline.
Past Canadian borders, IFPI’s State of the Trade highlights how nationwide markets are intertwined worldwide, utilizing the rising reputation of Punjabi music in Canada and the launch of 91 North Information — a collaboration between Warner Music Canada and Warner Music India — for example. “We arrange 91 North Information,” Warner’s Simon Robson says, in “response to one thing that’s taking place organically and a proactive turbocharge to ensure it doesn’t simply proceed however thrives and finds a wider viewers.” Robson factors out that a number of of the most well-liked Indian songs in 2022 got here from artists primarily based in Canada. – RLD
Karan Aujla Makes Historical past at 2024 Junos
The 2024 Juno Awards seemed to the way forward for Canadian music, whereas additionally honouring its historical past.
A quartet of acts who’ve had main breakthroughs this 12 months received the main awards given out on the CBC-televised broadcast on Sunday evening (March 24) stay from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Punjabi-Canadian world star Karan Aujla received the TikTok Fan Alternative award, the one fan-chosen award of the ceremony. “Typically I can’t imagine I’m that very same child who misplaced my dad and mom once I was in India, made my solution to Canada, and now I’m right here!” mentioned the B.C.-based artist, one among Billboard Canada’s inaugural cowl stars. “If you’re dreaming, be sure to dream large.”
Wearing a spiffy white outfit with a 4 backup dancers in purple, Aujla carried out early on, enjoying pop hits “Admirin’ You” and “Softly.” Each got here from his album Making Reminiscences, which made historical past as the highest-charting Punjabi debut ever on the Canadian Albums chart. Ikky, who made the album with Aujla, acted as hype man on an elevated platform.
Within the Billboard Punjabi Wave cowl story, AP Dhillon talked about his efficiency on the 2023 Junos ceremony and the way he lobbied to make sure majorly common Punjabi music would have a protracted platform on the awards. Evidently, they’ve stored their phrase.
This 12 months’s Junos additionally had essentially the most Indigenous nominees in award historical past. Anita Landback, Tanas Sylliboy and Sarah Prosper set the stage with a land acknowledgment that intersected with a efficiency by Juno winner Jeremy Dutcher in Wolastoqey, who then joined in a duet with Elisapie on an Inuktitut model of Blondie’s “Coronary heart of Glass.” Together with Aujla and others, it meant performances featured not less than six completely different languages, together with English and French.
A number of different breakout artists had large wins at this 12 months’s awards. Tate McRae, The Seashores, Charlotte Cardin and TALK all had main years on the charts and had been rewarded with awards. The Junos have struggled with star energy in recent times — Drake has boycotted the final half decade, whereas chart-topper Tate McRae was not in attendance to simply accept her two awards this 12 months — however they’ve made some strides on the subject of illustration of what makes Canadian music distinctive. -Richard Trapunski
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