{"id":87832,"date":"2024-06-14T21:06:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T01:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/06\/14\/in-canada-more-streaming-manipulation-sites-taken-down-warner-canada-ar-head-starts-new-venture-2\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T01:06:05","slug":"in-canada-more-streaming-manipulation-sites-taken-down-warner-canada-ar-head-starts-new-venture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/06\/14\/in-canada-more-streaming-manipulation-sites-taken-down-warner-canada-ar-head-starts-new-venture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In Canada: More Streaming Manipulation Sites Taken Down, Warner Canada A&R Head Starts New\u00a0Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tNine sites that were selling fraudulent streams have been taken offline, according to IFPI<\/a> and Music Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIFPI, the worldwide recording industry association, and Music Canada, a trade group that represents major Canadian labels, filed a legal complaint with the Canadian Competition Bureau against the sites, accusing them of selling false plays and streams to manipulate streaming service data. The nine connected sites, the most popular of which used the domain name MRINSTA.com, have since gone offline (though you can still see them via the Wayback Machine<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cStreaming manipulation has no place in music,\u201d stated Lauri Rechardt<\/strong>, the IFPI\u2019s chief legal officer. \u201cPerpetrators and enablers of streaming manipulation cannot be allowed to continue to divert revenue away from the artists who create the music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs streaming has grown in popularity, so have efforts to game platforms\u2019 royalty models. Vancouver-based fraud detection software company Beatdapp estimates<\/a> that as many as 10% of music streams are fake. Fake streams are often generated through streaming farms, which use bots to automatically stream particular songs and boost their stats.<\/p>\n

\n\tCanada recorded 145.3 billion streams in 2023. \u2013 Rosie Long Decter<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\t\tWarner Music Canada\u2019s Head of A&R Leaves to Start New Management Company, SWING<\/strong>\t<\/h3>\n

\n\tIt was only January of this year that Victoria, B.C. pop-funk act Diamond Cafe announced his signing to Warner Music Canada. Now, George Kalivas<\/strong>, the man who signed him, is breaking off on his own to manage him \u2014 and building a whole new company around the artist.<\/p>\n

\n\tSWING is launching as a Toronto-based management company with Diamond Cafe as its first artist, though Kalivas says the eventual plan is to \u201cevolve into a full-service record label in no time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tKalivas started in marketing at Warner Canada seven years ago, handling domestic artists signed to the label and international releases signed to subsidiaries like Atlantic and 300. But he had \u201cone foot in A&R,\u201d he says, which became official two years ago when Kristen Burke<\/strong> became label president.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis first signing was Crash Adams, a Canadian pop duo known for viral TikTok trends. After the joint launch<\/a> of 91 North Records by Warner Canada and Warner India, Kalivas helped sign the label\u2019s second artist, AR Paisley. A long-simmering Canadian rapper, Paisley hit the top 10<\/a> of the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 this year with \u201cDrippy,\u201d a posthumous collaboration with the late Punjabi-Canadian superstar Sidhu Moose Wala<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut it was Diamond Cafe that made Kalivas realize the time was right to strike off on his own \u201cI haven\u2019t seen a triple threat artist like him \u2014 writer, performer and producer \u2014 in 15 years,\u201d he says. \u201cHe\u2019s next level.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs publishing and song catalogs become a major money-maker in the music industry, artists like Diamond Cafe, who can work both in front of and behind the scenes, are being scouted heavily. For SWING, it\u2019s enough to structure a whole new company around. \u2013 Richard Trapunski<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\t\tTexas Songwriter Livingston Debuts on the Canadian Hot 100 With \u2018Shadow\u2019<\/strong>\t<\/h3>\n

\n\tTexas singer-songwriter Livingston is making a splash on the Canadian charts this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 21-year-old has landed on the Canadian Hot 100 for the first time with his single \u201cShadow,\u201d which debuted at No. 100. The ominous single, which finds Livingston warning about the dangers we pose to ourselves, shows off his belt and falsetto over keyboard stabs and jittery percussion. \u201cShadow\u201d is also performing well on the iTunes charts and has gathered over 1 million YouTube views since its Mar. 7 release.<\/p>\n

\n\tLivingston\u2019s new album, A Hometown Odyssey<\/em>, also found a spot on the Canadian Albums chart this week, debuting at No. 92. Livingston first gained popularity as a teenager on TikTok during the pandemic and signed shortly thereafter with Elektra Records. His website states that he \u201creclaimed his independence\u201d from his major label deal a year ago. Hometown Odyssey <\/em>is independently released.<\/p>\n

\n\tIndependence seems to suit Livingston well. Though he isn\u2019t charting on the U.S. Billboard <\/em>Hot 100 or Billboard 200 yet, sometimes rising American artists \u2014 like Benson Boone<\/a> \u2014 perform better in Canada before gaining steam in the United States. \u2013 Rosie Long Decter<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nine sites that were selling fraudulent streams have been taken offline, according to IFPI and Music Canada. IFPI, the worldwide recording industry association, and Music Canada, a trade group that represents major Canadian labels, filed a legal complaint with the Canadian Competition Bureau against the sites, accusing them of selling false plays and streams to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}