In Canada: Universal Music Canada’s Julie Adam Is Billboard Canada Women in Music’s 2025 Executive of the Year

Julie Adam is having a milestone twelvemonth — and it’s getting adjacent bigger.

The president & CEO of Universal Music Canada is this year’s Billboard Canada Executive of the Year. She volition judge the grant astatine Billboard Canada Women successful Music connected Oct. 1 astatine Rebel successful Toronto.

Adam was promoted to the caput relation astatine the opening of this twelvemonth and is present the lone pistillate heading a large statement successful Canada.

Adam’s emergence comes aft decades of breaking barriers. She started successful radio, becoming Canada’s archetypal pistillate Vice President of Radio Programming, and spent much than 20 years astatine Rogers Sports & Media earlier moving to Universal successful 2023 arsenic EVP & GM. It wasn’t agelong earlier she stepped into the apical role, taking complaint of Canada’s largest grounds institution during a infinitesimal of change.

UMC is the marketplace stock person amongst labels successful Canada (the statement has 7 of the apical 10 albums twelvemonth to date), with some home occurrence for planetary artists and rising stardom for homegrown artists.

The past twelvemonth has seen illustration breakthroughs for artists similar Josh Ross (who was among the astir nominated artists astatine the Junos and CCMAs) and Toronto popular creator Sofia Camara, who hit the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 for the archetypal clip this week. Other artists, similar Mae Martin and Owen Riegling, proceed to marque a large mark.

It’s nary astonishment Adam was named to the Billboard Canada Power Players list this twelvemonth and to Billboard’s Global Power Players.

What makes Adam basal retired — and what this grant underlines — is not conscionable the business, but the mode she leads. Her publication Imperfectly Kind doubles arsenic her philosophy: that empathy and generosity tin substance success. Colleagues and artists alike constituent to her quality to make abstraction for others to thrive, a uncommon prime successful an manufacture often driven by competition.

Read much here. — Peony Hirwani

Canadian Music Industry Weighs successful connected How to Support Canadian Audio Content astatine CRTC Public Hearings

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)’s “Supporting Canadian and Indigenous audio content” hearings are underway.

The CRTC proceedings are centred astir the Online Streaming Act, a authorities that updates Canada’s Broadcasting Act for the caller integer media landscape. It’s a once-in-a-generation update to CanCon regulations, and galore stakeholders person been weighing successful astir however it should beryllium implemented.

An important facet to these hearings is past year’s CRTC determination to enforce large foreign-owned streaming services with Canadian revenues implicit $25 cardinal to pay 5% of those revenues into Canadian contented funds, similar FACTOR and Musicaction. It’s been a large blistery fastener issue, with pushback from the large large streaming services similar Spotify and Amazon. After appealing the basal contributions, the courts paused payments until an appeal.

That has been a large taxable of speech successful arguments implicit a bid of 5 days of hearings successful Gatineau, Quebec, from September 18 to September 29.

The country’s national authorities is nether heavy unit from the United States to forego the basal contributions successful the legislation, with 18 members of Congress signing a letter, claiming the enactment “imposes discriminatory obligations and threatens further obligations imminently is simply a large menace to our cross-border integer commercialized relationship.”

CRTC regulations authorities that astatine slightest 35% of fashionable euphony picks connected commercialized vigor stations indispensable beryllium Canadian contented — but this modular doesn’t presently widen to euphony streaming services.

The extremity of the hearings is to sermon however CanCon regulations tin beryllium adjusted successful enactment of the changes taking spot successful the euphony manufacture and the Canadian broadcasting system, including the emergence of streaming services, the diminution of vigor broadcast...