Richard Trapunski
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 23, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Billboard
- Top 10K sites
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- Jul 24, 2026
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Angine de Poitrine Wins Both the Polaris Music Prize & SOCAN Polaris Song Prize: Recap & Reaction (opens the original)
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Angine de Poitrine earned two of Canada’s top musical honors in the same night. The band emerged victorious Tuesday (Sept. 22) at the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony powered by FACTOR at Toronto’s Massey Hall, taking home both the Polaris Music Prize for Vol. II and the SOCAN Polaris Song Prize for “Fabienk.” The wins were announced simultaneously by two-time Polaris Prize winner Jeremy Dutcher and Tanya van Luven, SOCAN’s chief membership officer, immediately following Angine de Poitrine’s liv
Dan + Shay Reintroduce Themselves by Harnessing ‘Something That AI Can’t Replicate: The Human Spirit’ (opens the original)
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Dan + Shay know when they have a hit on their hands. In their 13 years together, the duo of Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney have become one of country music’s surest bets. Songs like “Tequila” and “10,000 Hours” with Justin Bieber (which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100) have topped Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, they’ve won multiple Grammys and CMA Awards, and heard their lyrics sung back at them from stages across the world. So when they left their writing room in Nashville with
In Canada: The Inside Story Behind Angine de Poitrine’s Unprecedented Global Breakthrough (opens the original)
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Angine de Poitrine are on the cover of Billboard Canada, with a cover story that gives an inside look behind their rise. Since the beginning of 2026, there’s arguably been no hotter band in the world. They’ve earned millions upon millions of streams, praise from idols from Jack White to Shania Twain (more on that later), sold out concerts in seconds and, with somewhere in the vicinity of 100,000 fans, even set a record for the biggest crowd at Montreal International Jazz Festival since Stevie Wo
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