Welcome to our sixth annual Music Ally International Focus report – where we bring all of Music Ally’s Country Profiles published in the last 12 months into one place.
Tag: Canada
Posted inNews
Canadian government rows back on ‘streaming tax’ for DSPs
Global streaming services are cheering after Canada’s government announced a u-turn for the country’s levy on the DSPs’ revenues in the country. The levy was part of Canada’s Online Streaming […]
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Canada’s levy on global video-streaming services has tripled to 15%
Music-streaming services have been campaigning hard in the last two years against a levy on their Canadian revenues by the country’s telecommunications regulator the CRTC, to fund local content and creators. The […]
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Canadian body Factor to invest $2m in local live-music sector
How Canadian music is funded has become something of a controversial topic in recent years, with music-streaming services agitating furiously against a levy on their revenues to fund local content and creators. […]
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Socan reveals its collections hit a record $587m in 2025
Canadian collecting society Socan has published its financial results for 2025, revealing that its collections grew 5% year-on-year to $587m – a record for the organisation. However, that growth wasn’t quite reflected […]
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Spotify takes aim at Canadian levy (again) with Loud & Clear stats
Spotify’s opposition to Canada’s levy on global streaming services is deep, so it never misses an opportunity to trumpet its value to Canadian artists and music beyond that. The latest example […]
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Tidal expands its ‘Spotlight’ program to Canada, UK and Europe
Last November, we reported on Tidal’s pivot towards SoundCloud-style direct uploads from artists. Those tracks would not generate royalties, but a weekly ‘Spotlight’ program saw Tidal’s editors choose ‘Upload’ tracks for playlist […]
Posted inSouth Asia
Karan Aujla, Shubh nominated for 2026 Juno Awards
South Asian acts, who scored nominations in general fields such as Single and Album of the Year at the 2025 Junos, were shut out of them for this year’s edition […]
Posted inCountry Profile
Country Profile – Canada 2026
Canada has a reputation as a steady, mature music market; dig down a little, however, and a more interesting story emerges. Read more, including marketing insight, here:
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Artist wants to sue after AI summary falsely calls him a sex offender
Juno Award-winning Canadian musician Ashley MacIsaac found himself out of a gig last month due to a false AI-generated Google summary.
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Spotify takes its beta music-videos feature to US and Canada
Spotify’s music videos feature, which is still officially in beta, has expanded to the US and Canada this week.
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DiMA-commissioned survey is latest salvo in Québec quotas row
The arguments over legislation in the Canadian province of Québec that could introduce French-language quotas for streaming services continue. DSPs body DiMA has commissioned a survey from research firm Leger to back […]
