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Dec 15, 2020 Image via Unsplash It’s been a big, weird year for Canadian music. The likes of The Weeknd, Drake, and dvsn all dropped heat in 2020 to help get us through lockdown, while rising artists have been forced to pivot to online streaming formats in order to survive. So, where do we go from here? As we enter 2021 amid a global pandemic, which artists, trends, and genres will pop off in the north? To find out, we asked a crack team of Canadians plugged into the music industry: Alicia West, Marketing Manager at Warner Music Group and former Flow 93.5 radio personality; Marlon Palmer, Y...

Illustration via Kagan McLeod It's been a long fight. The music industry has been upended, and our lives along with it. But in the most challenging of years, some voices still managed to stand out, either lifting us out of the darkness or resonating with us during a time of unrest. Good music really hit different in 2020. And in Canada, there was plenty of it, from superstars like Drake and The Weeknd to upstarts like Backxwash and Chiiild. Years from now, these songs might trigger memories of how life was when we first heard them: lonely, uncertain, surreal. But for the time being, this i...