Canadian Success is easy

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Gully's a good guy from what I recall, just a little odd for anyboody to spam this thread>!!>>#<<#
 
ido1957 said:
For music, the requirements are referred to as the MAPL system. Following an extensive public hearing process organised by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the MAPL system, created by Stan Klees (co-creator of the Juno Award), was adopted as a way to define and identify Canadian content in pieces of music for the purposes of increasing exposure of Canadian music on Canadian radio through content regulations governing a percentage (25%) of airplay that is to be devoted to Canadian music. The percentage was increased to 30 per cent in the 1980s, and to 35 per cent in 1998.
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So, I was born in Canada - how do I get this MAPL stuff embedded in my music files? ;)
 
I think you just put the MAPL logo on the packaging. (Or if you recorded outside of Canada the MA_L logo)
 
It truly is that easy!
To qualify as Canadian content, a musical selection must generally fulfil at least two of the following conditions:

* M (music): the music is composed entirely by a Canadian
* A (artist): the music is, or the lyrics are, performed principally by a Canadian
* P (performance): the musical selection consists of a live performance that is
o recorded wholly in Canada, or
o performed wholly in Canada and broadcast live in Canada
* L (lyrics): the lyrics are written entirely by a Canadian

The MAPL logo is a circle divided into four parts, one part for each of the four "MAPL" categories. The categories in which the music qualifies are black with a white initial M, A, P or L. The categories for which the music does not qualify are in white, with a black letter.

Now I just need to find that logo with the MA L in black background, white initial, P white/black!
 
This is a cool thread.

Whats not cool is that my beloved country gave the world Celine Dion and for that i am Very sorry. But yea. I have alot of very successful friends in the industry around here. They worked insanely hard. Like almost depressingly hard.

there success would kind of be very minimal in the big picture of 'success' But they did alot.

I like our system.


Now i just need to get back in it.
 
We also made Our Lady Peace, Rush, and the Arrogant Worms, so Canadian music isn't all bad.
Plus, Celine is barely even Canadian. Isn't most of her music something like _AP_?
 
Steve your a canuck ?

Also worthy of Note: D.O.A., Cancer Bats, Matt Mays, Joel Plaskett, The Mudmen, and countless other not so spotlight centered acts that make Atom Bomb happy.
 
Canadian music sometimes has a huge influence on American music. For example, "The Big Four" thrash bands (all from USA) all cite Anvil as a major influence. Then there's the Guess Who's "American Woman" which was covered by an American guy years later. A shitload of talent has come out of this country; I for one enjoy Rush, 3 Inches of Blood, Anvil, Exciter, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive (who released their fist 5 albums in only 2 years).
 
I'm Canadian on paper at least. We moved to Wisconsin when I was 6, so I only get to hear the Canadian music that migrates across the border.

I just picked up 3"oB's "Advance and Vanquish." That is awesomely over-the-top music right there!
 
See.... I knew there was a reason why your stuff is pretty rad.

Paper canadians count for something.

I wasn't really into third eye blind. My female is though. So subconciously i probably can sing their records from beggining to end and not know it. Too many long car drives with her as the dj.....

ugh.
 
so you dont need to register with the godderment or nothing? dont need to prove your canadian to use the sticker? legally, any idiot can get away with it?

canadian artists: April Wine!
 
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