IMS Business Report 2022: Recorded music industry tops $26 billion in continued growth
The IMS Business report 2022 reveals continued growth driven by a rise in streaming as well as physical music sales. The yearly IMS (Internation Music Summit) business report for 2022 has just taken place, seeing hundreds of musical and industry experts gather to hear exactly what's currently shaping the industry and how well it's doing as a whole. The 2022 IMS
IMS Business report 2022: Less than 1.2% of electronic artist catalogues make more than $65k per year
According to the IMS Business Report 2022, only 1,650 artists make over $65,000 annually from their streaming catalogue. “It has been brutally difficult for artists to make a living from making and playing music,” says Silvia Montello, Association for Electronic Music Although the true number of this is actually lower when you factor in that a lot of these artists split
Ibiza 2022: What can we expect on the White Island this year?
At long last, the White Island of Ibiza will be open for business as usual come the middle of the month. Following a bleak few years in the shadow of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the island and its nightlife has suffered immeasurably, with business all but coming to an indefinite halt. That is guaranteed to change now however, with thousands
IMS Ibiza to return in April 2022 following a two-year hiatus
The International Music Summit (IMS Ibiza Summit), will return for its thirteenth edition in April 2022 following a two year break. The leading platform for industry, culture and education in electronic music, returns on 27th-29th April next year for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, reuniting the entire ecosystem of the genre for three-days of purposeful conversation, connection and celebration. Co-presented
International Music Summit launches ‘The Big Questions’ hosted by Pete Tong and Jaguar
International Music Summit (IMS), the beloved staple event in the electronic industry which is hosted in Ibiza, has just launched an exciting new digital discussion series in partnership with Pioneer DJ, Beatport, shesaid.so, and the Association for Electronic Music titled 'The Big Questions'. Hosted by Pete Tong and Jaguar, the digital series will be streamed through Beatport's streaming channels. Presenting a series of interesting and insightful
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,
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
International Music Summit Ibiza announces 2022 return
International Music Summit (IMS), the leading platform for industry, culture and education in electronic music, has postponed IMS Ibiza 2021 and announced the summit will return in 2022 for its 13th edition. The event will reunite thousands of global electronic music industry professionals after a two year hiatus, curating a programme of diverse discussions that are set to help us
IMS Business report shows the rise and fall of dance music financial share
The IMS Business report 2020 is here! As with every year, the study conducted by the London-based strategy specialist Kevin Watson has shown some of the most interesting data relating the electronic dance music scene. One of these aspects is the study of the evolution of the dance music financial share during 2019. Overall, dance music has scored high as one of the preferred
IMS outlines the impact of streams on the gaming and live music industry in 2020
It’s been quite an interesting, and also sad, year for the live music and entertainment industry due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Almost no in-person events are taking place, all major organizers are hosting live-stream events challenging their designers in a completely different way this year. IMS has now released its 2020 Business Report that addresses the impact of live streams
IMS Report shows rebound for high-earning DJs across 2019
2020 may have been a bit of a shocker to say the least, but the newly released IMS Business Report 2020 shows that the industry was in a state of rebound throughout 2019, based on the earnings of the highest paid DJs, along with the sheer number of festivals touring DJs played across the year. In terms of earnings, 2018 saw
IMS Business Report looks at festival cancellations and income losses
it's no secret that pretty much every festival across the world has been cancelled, and festival season for 2020 is non-existent. It seems like every day people wake up to a new festival cancellation, but how many exactly have been cancelled in each country? The new IMS Business Report looks at this in depth and explores the affects of what this has