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In the music industry, festival season has always revolved around the summer months. As summer begins, the media becomes bombarded with festival-mania and the focus immediately shifts onto the leading festivals worldwide like Tomorrowland, EDC, and Ultra. Around the world, there are a consistently growing number of festivals that take place every single summer, [...]
When looking at European music festivals, the focus is often firmly set on Central and Western Europe, with festivals like Tomorrowland, Parookaville, and Glastonbury taking centre stage year after year. Although these festivals have dominated the music industry for years, we are beginning to see a shift, with festivals in Eastern Europe beginning to [...]
Last month, Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) returned, providing an abundance of exciting conferences and events for attendees from all around the globe. This year, 400,000 people were in attendance from over 100 countries, making this year undoubtedly ADE’s best one yet. At this year’s conference, we officially launched Moon Jelly, inviting our members to [...]
Every year, fans worldwide grow eager as festival season approaches to see if their favourite artists make the lineup. From hiring the top entertainers in the world to headline to hiring artists just making their way into the industry, festivals are the perfect way to get your head in the game. Festival lineups are [...]
Over the past couple of years, Marshmello has undoubtedly become one of the biggest EDM superstars of our generation. With billions of views, Spotify streams, and collaborations with A-List celebrities, it seems as if there is no stopping the growth of this talented producer. Having established his brand and become internationally recognized by people [...]
If you want to be treated like a professional, act like one. Those who work hard enough to find success in this industry understand the sacrifices that have to be made at times, but continue due to love for the music. At the end of the day, it is important to remember that working [...]
Annual conference Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) continues to make an impact on artists, fans and industry professionals year after year.
As the world’s post powerful streaming platform, Spotify continues to grow its influence exponentially year after year. With over 170 million users, the platform has a staggering potential reach, providing a huge opportunity for artists to make an impact on the global market. Due to this, spending a great deal of time fine-tuning your [...]
Polls have become an integral part of the electronic music industry over the years. While controversial, they offer a unique opportunity for promotion for artists at any stage in their career and are an important aspect of building a reputation among the fan community. Although many artists have been called out in the past [...]
As the rise of electronic dance music has seen the live show elevated to a new status, the days of underground clubs with nothing more than a brooding sound system and bass-heavy beat have given way to full-on circus-style shows, laden with confetti cannons. But with fans flocking to festivals from far and near, [...]
The annual IMS Ibiza report has been released for 2018 and as always, the report covered a vast number of topics within the realms of EDM including DJ’s social media numbers, streaming growth, festivals, DJ’s earnings and digital music sales. In this article, we’ll be delving into the stats revealing EDM’s rapid exponential growth [...]
Mix referencing is the process of comparing your nearly finished mix to previous mixes you’ve made, other versions of your mix in the same project or commercial recordings to determine the quality of your mix. It sounds simple, but there are a few crucial things to consider to make your referencing as effective as [...]
The entertainment industry is generally rather judgmental and filled with people who are constantly results focused and financially driven. Although that may be a good thing in some scenarios, it also opens the door for a lot of rejection towards aspiring talent. Therefore, in this article, we’re going to discuss how you can deal [...]
The two words that you just can’t escape in dance music right now continue to resonate throughout the electronic industry: Salvatore Ganacci. Dance music went to war with itself this week after seeing the theatrics of Salvatore Ganacci at Tomorrowland in a cleverly cut up video that only showed him dancing like a fool [...]
While making music is, of course, the most important aspect of being a musician, there are many more vital elements that need an equal amount of focus in order to provoke the quickest growth in popularity and success. When starting out, many of these individual aspects will all be managed by you, the artist, [...]
With the benefit of social media helping rising entertainers worldwide, don’t forget to take your promotion efforts offline too. Along with maintaining a strong social media presence, playing live shows will boost your name locally. Initially, it may be hard to gather an audience to one venue because of location and that you may [...]
Long ago, being a DJ was extremely difficult. Purchasing and learning to use turntables was expensive and difficult. Buying and hunting for records in record shops was expensive, tedious and when owning hundreds of vinyls, they were difficult to carry around. Nowadays, however, everything is simpler and more compact. USB’s and websites such as [...]
The use of Facebook events to promote gigs is almost essential in the current climate. It has become unusual for events not to utilize this feature for promotion, which is completely unsurprising as an event page can do wonders in promoting a gig. Often, event pages can spread like wildfire, as when a user [...]
There is arguably no artist in the electronic music industry that has achieved success at a more exponential rate than Martin Garrix.
On 12th April, the dust was settling on the reunion of Swedish House Mafia at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, but it was another post about Ultra which grabbed the attention of many, with Dutch producer Oliver Heldens using his social media platforms to post the following speech which earned 22k Facebook likes, and [...]
