Live Nation loses a whopping $1.8 billion in stock value due to coronavirus cancellation fears
With coronavirus causing for cancellations or postponements of what is essentially nearly every major music festival right now, this means that a lot of money is to be lost, and event organisers, artists and businesses that rely on large scale events are feeling the worse of the aftermath regarding income and business related means. It's heartbreaking that the effects are
IMS Business Report: Beatport’s highest selling music genres
Per the IMS Business Report, techno remains among the hype taking Beatport's #1 top-selling genre. Following closely behind in order of sales are tech-house, house, deep house, and drum & bass which round out the top 5. A new landing at number 6, and newly introduced genre in March, melodic house & techno, (which is not to be rounded in
David Guetta: “I want to be the world’s highest paid DJ”
After being named in Forbes's rich list this year, French superstar DJ David Guetta is on a quest to become the world's highest paid DJ. As it currently stands, multi-Platinum selling DJ Calvin Harris is atop of the list, however, Guetta explains: "There is competition, but in a positive way
Avicii ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in Europe
In a quite surprising bit of news, Avicii has been revealed as the 6th biggest business in Europe, having been worth an astonishing €7.7 million in 2014, the 5 person team behind Avicii (including the artist himself) have grown 1905% since 2014. This in itself says a huge amount about the growth of electronic music in general and the monstrous popularity of