Music of Canada: Difference between revisions

The turn of the millennium was a time of incredible nationalism, at least as far as [[List of radio stations in Canada|Canadian radio]] is concerned.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Canadian encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianencyclop03mars_0 |url-access=registration |work= James H|publisher=Marsh Edition: 2|year= 1988 |page=Item notes: v. 3–273|isbn=0-7710-2099-6}}</ref> The 1971 [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]] rules (30% Canadian content on Canadian radio)<ref name="Act" /> finally come into full effect and by the end of the 20th century radio stations would have to play 35% Canadian content.<ref>{{cite web |title=A home-grown philosophy of Canadian content |work=by Charles Gordon The Ottawa Citizen, May 7, 1998 |url=http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/articles/sovereignty_identity/philosophy_content.cfm |access-date=2009-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514030349/http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/articles/sovereignty_identity/philosophy_content.cfm |archive-date=May 14, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> This led to an explosion in the 21st century of Canadian pop musicians dominating the airwaves unlike any era before.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite book|title=The CHUM Story |work=by Allen Farrell|publisher= (C.A ON: Stoddart Publishing|year= 2001|isbn= 0-7737-6263-9}}</ref> In 1996, [[VideoFACT]] launched PromoFACT, a funding program to help new artists produce electronic press kits and [[websites]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.videofact.ca/home/background |title=A Foundation To Assist Canadian Talent, was created in 1984 |work=VIDEOFACT AND PROMOFACT |access-date=2009-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227092152/http://www.videofact.ca/home/background |archive-date=2010-02-27 }}</ref> At about the same time, the [[CD]] (cheap to manufacture) replaced the [[vinyl album]] and [[Compact Cassette]] (expensive to manufacture).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-10705268.html |title=End of track. (the vinyl record is meeting its demise in music recording industry) |publisher=The Economist (US) |date=May 11, 1991 |access-date=2009-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025203913/http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-10705268.html |archive-date=October 25, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> Shortly thereafter, the [[Internet]] allowed musicians to directly distribute their music, thus bypassing the selection of the old-fashioned "[[record label]]".<ref name="Gar"/><ref name=Millard>{{cite book|work=Millard, Andre|url=https://archive.org/details/americaonrecordh0000mill |url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/americaonrecordh0000mill/page/353 353]|title=America on Record-A History of Recorded Sound |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=1995|isbn=0-521-47556-2|access-date=2009-10-28 }}</ref> Canada's mainstream music industry has suffered as a result of the internet and the boom of independent music. The drop in annual sales between 1999 - the year that [[Napster]]'s unauthorized [[peer-to-peer]] file sharing service launched<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_33/b3694003.htm |title=Napster's High and Low Notes |publisher=Businessweek |date=August 14, 2000 |access-date=2009-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001100740/http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_33/b3694003.htm |archive-date=October 1, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> - and the end of 2004 was $465 million.<ref name="President">{{cite web |url=http://www.cria.ca/about.php |work=Canadian Recording Industry Association |title=(CRIA)President's Message |access-date=2009-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603102246/http://cria.ca/about.php |archive-date=2009-06-03 }}</ref>

[[File:Drake_Summer_Sixteen_Tour.jpg|upright|thumb|[[Drake (musician)|Drake]] performing at the [[Summer Sixteen Tour]] in Toronto in 2016]]