French-language music rep wants streaming recommendations data

By Ahmad Hathout An association representing French-language music publishers wants the CRTC to collect and make public data from online streaming services to evaluate how well they are promoting Canadian content as part of its implementation of the Online Streaming Act. In a Part 1 application published this month, the Association des Professionnels de L’edition Musicale (APEM) is urging the regulator to collect data on a quarterly basis from the streaming services related to the rank, title, artist, release data and origin of listens and impressions (where the music is displayed to the user) of the top musical scores that...