As the music industry has evolved over the past decade into the digital world, things have changed quite a bit. Hard copies are hardly ever bought anymore, nor does anyone seem to buy whole albums at all, as the iTunes Store model has taken over and the industry has increasingly become about what the consumer […]
YouTube Music Awards… Interesting
The inaugural YouTube Music Awards (YMA) took place Sunday night in New York City. The website-sponsored music awards show, touted as a celebration of the do it yourself content environment Youtube helped to foster. It was billed as the crowning moment of years worth of artists that have taken things into their own hands to […]
Hardwell named No. 1 DJ
Hardwell rose up the ranks over the past year through incessant marketing, a radio show and a live set that is a highlight at every festival and lineup to become the world’s number one DJ, according to DJ Mag. Ranked last year at number six, the dutch sensation hit the top spot in 2013 against […]
Wall Street Advisor Values EDM at $20 Billion
The monster that has become Electronic Dance Music is an anomaly in the history of the music industry. This week, Wall Street veteran John Langdon and his company, Massive Advisors LLC, projected the EDM market as a “$15.0 to $20.0 billion global industry, with the major players in the global festival market achieving $4.5 billion […]