Julie Adam is having a milestone 12 months — and it’s getting even greater.
The president & CEO of Common Music Canada is that this 12 months’s Billboard Canada Government of the 12 months. She is going to settle for the award at Billboard Canada Girls in Music on Oct. 1 at Insurgent in Toronto.
Adam was promoted to the top position in the beginning of this 12 months and is now the one girl heading a serious label in Canada.
Adam’s rise comes after many years of breaking limitations. She began in radio, changing into Canada’s first feminine Vice President of Radio Programming, and spent greater than 20 years at Rogers Sports activities & Media earlier than transferring to Common in 2023 as EVP & GM. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than she stepped into the highest position, taking cost of Canada’s largest document firm throughout a second of change.
UMC is the market share chief amongst labels in Canada (the label has 7 of the highest 10 albums 12 months thus far), with each home success for worldwide artists and rising stardom for homegrown artists.
The previous 12 months has seen chart breakthroughs for artists like Josh Ross (who was among the many most nominated artists on the Junos and CCMAs) and Toronto pop artist Sofia Camara, who hit the Billboard Canadian Sizzling 100 for the primary time this week. Different artists, like Mae Martin and Owen Riegling, proceed to make an enormous mark.
It’s no shock Adam was named to the Billboard Canada Energy Gamers listing this 12 months and to Billboard’s World Energy Gamers.
What makes Adam stand out — and what this award underlines — is not only the enterprise, however the best way she leads. Her ebook Imperfectly Sort doubles as her philosophy: that empathy and generosity can gas success. Colleagues and artists alike level to her means to create house for others to thrive, a uncommon high quality in an business usually pushed by competitors.
Learn extra right here. — Peony Hirwani
Canadian Music Trade Weighs in on Tips on how to Assist Canadian Audio Content material at CRTC Public Hearings
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Fee (CRTC)’s “Supporting Canadian and Indigenous audio content material” hearings are underway.
The CRTC proceedings are centred across the On-line Streaming Act, a laws that updates Canada’s Broadcasting Act for the brand new digital media panorama. It’s a once-in-a-generation replace to CanCon laws, and lots of stakeholders have been weighing in about the way it needs to be applied.
An necessary side to those hearings is final 12 months’s CRTC resolution to implement main foreign-owned streaming companies with Canadian revenues over $25 million to pay 5% of these revenues into Canadian content material funds, like FACTOR and Musicaction. It’s been a serious scorching button difficulty, with pushback from the large main streaming companies like Spotify and Amazon. After interesting the bottom contributions, the courts paused funds till an attraction.
That has been an enormous matter of dialog in arguments over a sequence of 5 days of hearings in Gatineau, Quebec, from September 18 to September 29.
The nation’s federal authorities is underneath heavy strain from the USA to forego the bottom contributions within the laws, with 18 members of Congress signing a letter, claiming the act “imposes discriminatory obligations and threatens extra obligations imminently is a serious menace to our cross-border digital commerce relationship.”
CRTC laws state that a minimum of 35% of standard music picks on business radio stations should be Canadian content material — however this normal doesn’t presently lengthen to music streaming companies.
The objective of the hearings is to debate how CanCon laws will be adjusted in help of the modifications going down within the music business and the Canadian broadcasting system, together with the rise of streaming companies, the decline of radio broadcasting alongside growing help for Indigenous music and numerous Canadian artists.
In its discover of session on the listening to that started final week, the CRTC mentioned streamers ought to “contribute to the discoverability of Canadian, French-language and Indigenous music both via monetary contributions or via initiatives concentrating on the promotion and publicity of those songs to their customers.”
Learn extra in regards to the hearings right here. — Heather Taylor-Singh
Kneecap Say They Haven’t Obtained Any Formal Discover After Ban From Canada
Kneecap have but to obtain official affirmation of its ban in Canada.
Final Friday (September 19), the Irish hip hop trio was dominated ineligible to enter the nation by Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary for Combating Crime Vince Gasparro in a video posted to X.
Whereas the ban forces the group to forfeit scheduled concert events in Toronto and Vancouver subsequent month, Kneecap’s supervisor, Dan Lambert, mentioned that the band hasn’t gotten any communication from the federal authorities.
“No one has instructed Kneecap that they will’t journey to Canada besides Vince and his social media video,” Lambert tells CBC Information.
Throughout Gasparro’s video, he claimed the trio “have amplified political violence and publicly displayed help for terrorist organizations equivalent to Hezbollah and Hamas,” and mentioned he was making the announcement “on behalf of the Authorities of Canada.”
The ruling blocks Kneecap’s deliberate exhibits at Toronto’s Historical past on October 14 and 15, in addition to concert events at Vancouver’s Vogue Theatre on October 22 and 23.
Quickly after the information broke out, Kneecap rejected the claims in an Instagram assertion addressed on to Gasparro, calling his remarks “wholly unfaithful and deeply malicious.”
The trio added that they’ve instructed their lawyer to provoke authorized motion towards Gasparro. “We will probably be relentless in defending ourselves towards baseless accusations to silence our opposition to a genocide being dedicated by Israel,” they mentioned.
Kneecap vowed that in the event that they win in court docket, they’ll donate all damages to “among the hundreds of kid amputees in Gaza.”
“We’re fairly shocked that this might occur in Canada,” Lambert mentioned to CBC Information, including the band has performed in Canada a number of occasions. He famous that the one nation the place the group has been banned is Hungary.
Lambert mentioned the case is due in court docket on Friday, and he absolutely expects the band to win.
Learn extra right here. – H.T.S.
