Canadian Music Week has announced that Buffy Sainte-Marie will be the 2020 recipient of the Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. Sainte-Marie will be honoured for her work over the last 60 years as a trailblazing musician, activist, and educator at the annual Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards Gala at

SiriusXM Canada has announced the kick-off of the third  annual SiriusXM Top of the Country in partnership with the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA).  This coast-to-coast search provides emerging Canadian country artists  with a national platform, opportunities to perform on some of Canada's  biggest country music stages, SOCAN songwriting camps,

According to reporting from Billboard, Canadian performing rights organization SOCAN is being sued for $16 million plus legal fees and interest by original investors of American music publishing rights management firm Audiam, which SOCAN purchased in 2016. According to amended complaint from Jan. 23, 2020 made in NY County State

MIDI 2.0, the next-generation music and arts specification that enhances virtually all aspects of 1983’s original MIDI 1.0 spec, made its world-wide debut at the Winter NAMM music industry trade show in January. According to the MIDI Manufacturers Association, current MIDI users wanted more nuanced expressiveness, higher