Will the success of test events be the answer to faster venue openings?
One of the biggest obstacles facing venues and festivals is knowing when to open back up the doors. It’s not easy to know exactly when the safest time might be, given the state of the world. But with the introduction of test events and their collected data, organizers may finally get a specific timeline and it might be sooner than we
How will the introduction of spatial audio reinvent the music industry?
If we learned one thing about the electronic music industry through the COVID-19 pandemic, it's that our ability to innovate in the world of technology is endless. One of the more important factors of innovations in the genre is the way we hear audio. Every track, every mix, every element is meant to be heard a certain way. With the
Saudi a-RAVE-ia: a new market for electronic music
Even before the pandemic forced borders to close, there were already isolated countries, cities, and regions. Geographical isolation is often easier to overcome than ideological isolation. Sometimes the walls are so high that not even music can break them down. Fortunately, this reality seems to be changing in Saudi Arabia, as David Boyle described in this year's IMS Business Report,
Girls just want to have fun: the growing of female DJs representation
The 2021 IMS Business Report has just come out and brings us the most trending topics in the industry. One of them is inevitably gender equality in the artist community and female DJs representation. The art of DJing and music production is genderless, and the knobs and faders are equally sensitive to male and female hands. Even so, there is still
What is the state of racial justice in the industry?
The annual IMS Business Report arrived full of highly relevant topics. Especially after all the transformations brought by the pandemic, it becomes even more pertinent to stop and analyze the data, to better understand the impact that the events of the collective everyday life have on the industry. Racial issues have always been present, even if in some hushed way,
How electronic artists dominated the world of NFTs
In the 2021 IMS Business Report which has just come out, it explores everything from livestreaming trends to social media trends and much more in the world of electronic music over the course of the past year. We're diving into it over the course of a few articles and this one is all about how electronic music has dominated the
Electronic music explodes in popularity on social media
The annual IMS Business Report has just been unveiled, and in it is a lot of interesting facts and figures about the music industry, streaming and much more. We Rave You is looking more in depth into this report, sharing the interesting facts and figures featured within. In one particular section, it details how electronic music has exploded in popularity across social media
IMS Business Report 2021 to be presented LIVE on Beatport
Rounding off an interesting year to say the least, the International Music Summit (IMS) will be presenting its annual IMS Business Report on Monday 28th of June! As the leading platform for business, culture and education in global electronic music, the IMS will be diving into all the latest statistics and figures relating to the electronic dance scene, in a year