Quebec artists society launches francophone music discoverability site

The Société professionnelle des auteurs, compositeurs du Québec et des artistes entrepreneurs (SPACQ-AE) has launched MUSIQC, a free music listening space dedicated to promoting and showcasing French-language music. Acting as a discoverability portal, MUSIQC leverages users’ pre-existing subscriptions to online music services to offer them a way to discover, rediscover and listen to French-language works, at no additional cost, by providing a wide selection of playlists curated by a specialized, dedicated and human programming team, a SPACQ-AE press release says. MUSIQC was created in response to the challenges faced by francophone music in a globalized market dominated by English-language and multilingual international...