The Billboard Summit is launching in Canada with a worldwide famous person who made historical past within the nation.
Diljit Dosanjh might be a special speaker on the occasion, which is able to launch at NXNE in Toronto’s TIFF Lightbox on June 11, 2025.
The record-setting artist made historical past together with his Dil-Luminati tour final yr, together with his stadium live shows at Vancouver’s BC Place and Toronto’s Rogers Centre happening as the most important ever Punjabi music occasions outdoors of India. The musician and film star has continued to unfold Punjabi tradition worldwide, lately bringing historic fashion to the Met Gala.
On the summit, Dosanjh will sit down for a particular interview with one other influential determine within the worldwide music trade: Panos A. Panay, president of the Recording Academy, the group behind the Grammys.
Billboard Canada has additionally introduced two massive performers for The Stage at NXNE.
Daniel Caesar is returning to the place he performed his first main headlining present: The Mod Membership in Toronto on June 14.
The venue might be reverting back to its unique identify of The Mod Membership, rebranded by proprietor Stay Nation from the identify Axis Membership for the primary time since 2021.
When he first performed the venue, Caesar was a golden boy with a golden voice, gaining buzz together with his EP Pilgrim’s Paradise and nonetheless a yr away from his traditional 2017 debut, Freudian.
In 2023, Caesar graduated to arenas, taking part in Madison Sq. Backyard in New York and Scotiabank Area in his hometown of Toronto. The Mod Membership efficiency is a particular, intimate present for his followers who’ve been with him from the start. A yr after he performed The Mod Membership in 2017, Caesar additionally performed NXNE — then an up-and-coming expertise, and now, with the competition turning 30, an artist who has reached plain headliner standing.
After the final women have left the occasion for his or her special DJ set on June 12, The Seashores will even play a special concert at a well known Toronto venue on June 15.
It’s an enormous summer season for the breakout Canadian band, with a latest competition set at Coachella and one other massive one this summer season at Osheaga in Montreal. The Seashores’ new album, No Onerous Emotions, comes out Aug. 29 on AWAL.
The band has additionally simply introduced the Canadian dates on its No Onerous Emotions Tour, together with its first hometown area present at Scotiabank Area on Nov. 6. The Seashores’ particular Billboard Canada Stay present might be significantly extra intimate, an opportunity to stand up shut and private with the band at a shock venue. – Richard Trapunski
Quebec to Impose Quotas for French-Language Content material on Streaming Platforms
Quebec might quickly be getting stricter language rules on streaming providers.
Quebec Tradition Minister Mathieu Lacombe tabled a brand new invoice on Could 21 that goals so as to add extra French-language content material to main streaming platforms, in addition to enhance its discoverability and accessibility by establishing quotas. The invoice will straight influence platforms that provide media content material corresponding to music, TV, video and audiobooks, together with giants like Netflix and Spotify.
Lacombe needs to push French-language and Quebecian content material to the forefront on these apps, saying it isn’t at all times available. He identified that consumption of native and French-language content material is low, comprising simply 8.5% of the music streamed in Quebec.
In accordance with the invoice, platforms must show their default interfaces in French inside the province, additionally together with platforms that produce unique French-language content material inside that choice. Corporations that disobey the foundations may face monetary penalties, though Lacombe says that those that can’t comply resulting from their enterprise mannequin can enter a take care of the Quebec authorities to ascertain “substitute guidelines.”
The invoice states that the Quebec authorities must set up content material proportions or quotas on how a lot content material must be produced or featured on these platforms, though no numbers have been specified.
Invoice 109 — formally titled “An Act to affirm the cultural sovereignty of Quebec and to enact the Act respecting the discoverability of French-language cultural content material within the digital setting” — might be intently tied to present Quebec laws and establishments. All platforms might be required to register with the Minister of Tradition and Communications, and the invoice will amend the precise to entry French-language cultural content material within the Quebec Constitution of Human Rights and Freedoms.
Whereas Quebec is tightening rules, the streaming providers are already pushing again towards present content material insurance policies, arguing that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Fee (CRTC) shouldn’t impose content material obligations upon them. A CRTC listening to is at present underway from Could 14 to 27 to stipulate a brand new definition of Canadian Content material (CanCon), together with rules.
Main corporations have been pushing again towards the CRTC’s implementation of the On-line Streaming Act within the listening to, which features a plan to require main international streaming corporations to put money into Canadian Content material funds. – Stefano Rebuli