Billboard Canada FYI Bulletin: Chantal Kreviazuk's Hit Album 'Colour Moving and Still' Reissued for 25th Anniversary
Also this week, a quick historical look at the rising price of concert tickets.
Chantal Kreviazuk
When Led Zeppelin played Toronto’s Rock Pile in 1969 tickets cost $2.50. In 1970, a three-day ticket to the Strawberry Fields Festival outside the city cost all of $15.00. As many as 100,000 attended with Procol Harum, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Sly and the Family Stone, Alice Cooper and about a dozen other acts on the bill.
In 1974, David Bowie brought his Diamond Dogs show to the O’Keefe Centre (now Meridian Hall) with a ticket price of $7.15. By 1990, Madonna was charging $24 for her Sky Dome appearance, and five years later R.E.M. was able to charge $35 for a Molson Amphitheatre show. In 1997, a ticket to U2’s PopMart tour cost an average of $44.
In more recent years, a Taylor Swift ticket at the 100-level at Rogers Centre (if one could get one) costs upwards of $1,000. By comparison, a comparable ticket with flight to Buenos Aires and hotel cost $1,950.
– Ticket News reports dozens of fans have complained that their concert tickets suddenly disappeared from their Ticketmaster accounts over the past few weeks, causing ticketholders to lose up to thousands of dollars. While this follows the Ticketmaster data breach earlier this year, the ticketer claims user's passwords were not exposed in the incident.
– This Friday, Sony Music releases a deluxe edition of Chantal Kreviazuk’s double platinum-selling album Colour Moving and Still to mark the platter’s 25th anniversary of its initial release. First released on October 5, 1999, Colour Moving and Still features one of Kreviazuk’s biggest songs of her career “Before You,” inspired by her husband Raine Maida, who she married just before the album’s release. Now a seasoned songwriting duo, Kreviazuk and Maida wrote together for the first time for two cuts off this album, “Dear Life” and “Little Things.”
The new edition, available in vinyl for the first time, features all 10 remastered songs from the original edition, her hit version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane, and six previously unreleased live renditions.
She's currently on a cross-Canada tour, resuming this Saturday in her hometown of Winnipeg at the Burton Cummings Theatre. She will also perform in Toronto, where she moved to in 1997, on November 8 at Massey Hall. Full itinerary here.
