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FYI Now Carrying Mediabase Canada Radio Charts

After a longstanding and fruitful relationship with BDS, owned by Luminate (formerly known as Nielsen Music), Billboard partnered with Mediabase and in doing so the era of two separate airplay moni

FYI Now Carrying Mediabase Canada Radio Charts

By FYI Staff

After a longstanding and fruitful relationship with BDS, owned by Luminate (formerly known as Nielsen Music), Billboard partnered with Mediabase and in doing so the era of two separate airplay monitoring charts ended in December 2022.


FYI is pleased to report a successful agreement with Mediabase effective last week that allows us access to a menu of the Top 30 charts compiled from monitoring over 450 radio stations covering multiple formats in Canada.

Details about and further research materials can be had by writing mediabase.com.

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Canadian Government Introduces Canada Creative Credit to Support 'Artistic Production'
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Canadian Government Introduces Canada Creative Credit to Support 'Artistic Production'

The Mark Carney government's new federal budget also confirms a $600 million investment to provide relief to the audiovisual sector for 2026-27, which was first announced in June.

Canada has built a new support for the creative sector into the new federal budget.

The Carney government's 2026 federal budget was tabled Thursday afternoon (Nov. 5), and it includes a new and forthcoming Canada Creative Credit, described as a tax relief "for Canadian artists to foster creativity, artistic production and cultural entrepreneurship." In a subsequent message posted to X, prime minister Mark Carney revealed that Canadian artists can benefit from an exception of up to $45,000.

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