Music Business News: Canada

YouTube’s TikTok rival Shorts expands into Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the UK and other regions

Rollout follows the platform's initial launch in India and the US

Canadian artist Ikky Singh launches 4N Records in partnership with Warner Music and Coalition Music

Warner India launched last year under the helm of ex-Sony exec Jay Mehta

Dan Rutman appointed Director, US & Canada at TuneCore

Rutman is the founder of Solitaire Recordings

Blackstone is buying eOne Music from Hasbro in $385m cash deal

Chris Taylor to run eOne Music as a standalone company under Blackstone ownership

Kardinal Offishall appointed Senior Vice President, A&R at Universal Music Canada

Artist and exec works closely with the company’s Urban Marketing team led by industry veteran Craig 'Big C' Mannix

Why we believe streaming subscription ARPU fell by around 8% globally for the record industry last year

MBW runs the numbers from the IFPI's must-read new Global Music Report covering 2020

Global recorded music revenues grew 7.4% to $21.6bn in 2020, in spite of the pandemic

Paid subscription streaming revenues increased by 18.5% last year

BTS were the world’s biggest-selling recording artist last year. But for the first time ever, no British acts made the Top 10.

Universal Music Group acts claimed nine (and a bit) in the IFPI's Top 10 chart