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Forget AI, Musicians Need To Be Scared Of ...Cats!

God knows, it's hard earning a living as a musician these days–but who could have guessed an uneducated feline, who can't tell the difference between a bass clef and a crochet, now threatens to toss a fleet of pianists in the doghouse.

Forget AI, Musicians Need To Be Scared Of ...Cats!

By David Farrell

It’s not an easy life being a professional musician today.


The clubs and live spaces that once peppered the landscape like confetti at a wedding are now fewer and fewer, and the pay has gone from decent to indecently little.

Worse, the new AI frontier promises to suspend a  score of composers and a quiver of lyricists–and now comes a new threat to working musicians. An uneducated feline, who can't tell the difference between a bass clef and a crochet who threatens to toss a fleet of pianists in the doghouse.

It's enough to make one quaver.

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Meet Nora, a sassy, uneducated grimalkin whose paws can cattivate an orchestra. Talented? You decide, but this fluff piece can't read music or compose a tune, and we're guessing she works for scale. That's fish scales, by the way.

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These Are the Canadian Music Executives on the Billboard 2026 Power 100
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These Are the Canadian Music Executives on the Billboard 2026 Power 100

This year's list, which honours the most powerful people in the music industry, includes executives from companies like Live Nation, REPUBLIC Collective, XO Records, Reservoir and more.

The Billboard Power 100 has arrived.

Every year, Billboard puts together a ranking of the music executives revolutionizing the music landscape, from technology partnerships and innovation to fan experience and music rights ownership. From spearheading the biggest tours of 2025 to the biggest music releases, the Canadian executives featured on the 2026 Billboard Power 100 span a diverse range of categories including the top 40 leaderboard, labels, live music and multisector.

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