Is merch getting unaffordable?; Bands cancelling gigs due to low ticket sales; Are we in a "Pop Slump"?; Music in space; Do you have irrational hate for a specific artist?; and Celine Dion is back?!
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This week...
$63.5bn is a very big number – but is it worth paying this much for Universal Music Group?
A report suggests that 2025 and 2026 saw a ‘pop slump’ in the streaming charts – but what does ‘pop slump’ even mean?
If you were on the Artemis II moon mission, what space-related songs songs would you force your fellow astronauts to listen to?
And another study has found that nearly half of music fans think merch is…
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