Vinyl LP sales in Canada in 2015 posted the biggest overall sales total in the SoundScan era since 1991, with a sales increase of 30% over 2014. As you can see below, the numbers aren’t huge compared to digital albums, but it’s a great format building lifelong fans.
Title/Artist Vinyl Sales
1 25 / Adele 6,200
2 1989 / Taylor Swift 6,000
3 X / Ed Sheeran 4,800
4 AM / Arctic Monkeys 3,800
5 In The Lonely Hour / Sam Smith 3,700
6 Abbey Road / Beatles 3,300
7 Hozier / Hozier 3,200
8 Dark Side Of The Moon / Pink Floyd 3,200
9 Wilder Mind / Mumford & Sons 3,000
10 Led Zeppelin IV / Led Zeppelin 2,600
11 Legend / Bob Marley & The Wailers 2,400
12 Kind Of Blue / Miles Davis 2,400
13 Nevermind / Nirvana 2,300
14 Ultraviolence / Lana Del Rey 2,200
15 If I Should Go Before You / City And Colour 2,200
16 Dream Your Life Away / Vance Joy 2,100
17 Guardians Of The Galaxy Awesome Mix Vol. 1 / Soundtrack 2,100
18 Honeymoon / Lana Del Rey 2,100
19 Chronicles / Creedence Clearwater Revival 2,000
20 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band / Beatles 2,000
Although this clip is from 2012, it’s going viral now. Percussion group ЭТНОБИТ (Ethnobeat) transformed the sheets of ice on Siberia’s frozen Lake Baikal into a pretty cool musical instrument.
David Kwong is both a magician and a professional crossword maker. He’s also Head Magic Consultant on “Now You See Me”, and one of his staple tricks is based on the popular puzzle. Just watch along to be amazed.
Life doesn’t end when Alzheimer’s begins. People living with dementia can continue to participate in life and contribute to their communities – in their own way, even as the disease progresses. “#StillHere,” created by Toronto-based Brees Communications, includes a 30-second video spot showing a woman revealing herself to the viewer and reminding them that despite living with Alzheimer’s disease, she’s “still here.”
Check out this short, but amazing clip of The Fifth Dimension performing with Frank Sinatra on his 1968 TV special ‘Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing’. Even though The Voice is looking a little awkward at times, he soon feels a bit relaxed singing a drinking song written by Laura Nyro.
On a December morning in 1970, the King of Rock ’n Roll showed up on the lawn of the White House to request a meeting with the most powerful man in the world, President Nixon. Starring Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon as Elvis Presley and two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey as Richard Nixon, comes the untold true story behind this revealing, yet humorous moment in the Oval Office forever immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.
This is part 46 of an ongoing series where the kind folk of the music business reveal their favourite album of all time.
Ask people in the music industry the seemingly simple and straightforward question, “What is your favourite album of all time?” and you’ll find that it’s not always easy. After all, my industry peers listen to hundreds of albums a month – thousands of songs during that time. Because the question isn’t the best album of all time or the one that’s made them the most money in sales, or the most clicked-on review, but the one release they personally can’t live without, that one title they have two copies of in several formats, in case one breaks. It’s also about that album that for them has the best back stories and the one that has the most meaning in their lives.
Craig Hemingway, Content Director, 800 CHAB/Country 100.7FM/MIX 103.9FM, Moose Jaw, SK Huey Lewis And The News, Sports Simply put, it’s comfort food. Whenever I want to feel 11 again, I just play cuts from this album, which was my “go to” in the Walkman when I mowed lawns for money in small town Saskatchewan. From the hits to “Finally Found A Home”, “You Crack Me Up” and even “Bad Is Bad”, when I hear Huey I can practically smell the freshly cut grass. Don’t have the Walkman anymore, but still have the original cassette.
Martin Anderson, Music Director and Morning Host, WNCW-FM The Grateful Dead, American Beauty It’s got country, blues, and psychedelic folk all somehow rolled together, it’s got three of their best-loved, feel-good songs of their career in “Box of Rain”, “Sugar Magnolia”, and “Truckin'”, and it’s got my all-time favorite song of theirs, “Ripple”. “Brokedown Palace” and “Attics of My Life” rarely fail to elicit deep emotion in me, too. And I credit it as one of my introductions to what became known as Americana music, which I am deeply involved in these days.
Oretha Winston, Interactive One Michael Jackson, Thriller
Human Nature is by far one of the greatest underrated tracks of all time. Michael’s delivery of the lyrics, “Looking out/Across the nighttime/The city winks a sleepless eye/Hear her voice/Shake my window/Sweet seducing sighs/Get me out/Into the nighttime/Four walls won’t hold me tonight/If this town/Is just an apple/Then let me take a bite,” make you dream of a city filled with possibilities and made me think and enjoy my own city with new eyes.
Rick Lee, Afternoon Drive Host, 96.9 JACK FM, Vancouver, BC U2, Achtung Baby From Zoo Station to Love is Blindness, U2 didn’t just chop down the Joshua Tree by reinventing themselves, but demonstrated how experimentation can take a band from goodness to greatness.
The Panini Group was established more than 50 years ago in Modena, Italy, and with its subsidiaries throughout Europe and Latin America, is the world leader in the published collectibles sector. Panini is also the leading multi-national publisher of comics, children’s magazines and manga in Europe and Latin America.
Panini released their Cantanti collection in 1968 called the Panini Singers, highlighting the very best of Italian and world-famous singers. Here are some of the best.
Billy Joel, J.K. Simmons, and Jimmy Fallon give an unrehearsed and spontaneous doo-wop performance of “The Longest Time” with Billy’s band while filming local promos.
