Introduction
Electronic dance music (EDM) festivals around the world bring hundreds of thousands of fans together for enormous multi-day parties. New York Ranger (2014) points out that ‘DJs are the new rock stars’.
“While attendance at concerts and festivals for other music genres declined by 8.3% in the past three years, EDM has only prospered” (Lashbaugh, 2013).
Lashbaugh (2013) also notes that EDM festivals are twice as big in attendance than all concerts and festivals in other music genres, combined.
EDM is a growing industry! Last year the festival scene generated 4 billion dollars. For 2013 EDM scene has again grown and is now valued at 15 – 20 billion dollars US (Sam, 2013).
Artist such as Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and Rihanna are changing their music style to what is popular right now. They are adjusting themselves and releasing tracks that have EDM inspiration (New York Ranger, 2014).
There is an increase of 33% in the total number of festivals produced worldwide in the past year (Langdon, 2013).
The current growth of the music industry is a result of the global popularity of EDM (Unknown, 2013). The DJ market has increased in popularity in past years as new technology has made it easier to become an entertainer (Vincent, 2013).
We can see from the statistics above that EDM is a fast growing industry. This could drive a need in the future for more skilled DJs.
DJ Warehouse “runs training courses for more than 2000 people a year in every state” of Australia (Vincent, 2013). George Alexis Voulgaropoulos is the founder and director of DJ Warehouse. He has been operating the business since it opened in 2001 (Newstead, 2014). DJ Warehouse was registered in October 2002 (ASIC, 2014).
DJ Warehouse provides e...
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EDM is brought up in debates solely out of the traditional view of EDM vs. the hybrids and subgenres that emerged from the EDM movement stemming from the late 80s. Traditional listeners remember when electronics came about, and the rest in the present defend the latest as their own. The popularity in recent years is contributed by artists mostly underground to be noticed again, and artists becoming more prominent in their fields, as well as more fans (both those who have known about electronic music and others who have but never listened). For example, the groups Daft Punk, and The Ting Tings, two bands under the same general EDM, but different subgenres. One is extremely well-known and recently released a new album, Daft Punk is more popular than ever, and the other is a band that initially flopped and found some success presently.
The music industry can trace its roots to the 18th century when classical composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sought commissions from the church or aristocracies by touring to promote their music (Boerner). By the early 20th century, recorded collections of songs were available for purchase for home listening. Towards the middle of the century, record album production had become the norm for getting new music to the masses and album sales had replaced sheet-music sales as a measure of popularity, with the first gold-recor...
III. This is the recording industry which even though their sales have been steadily declining due to internet piracy it is still an industry which has great importance in our lives. As college students alone spend about 450 million dollars on music, according to Harris Interactive a worldwide market research and consulting firm. Ever since the birth of recorded music, it has defined our eras and defined each and every one of us. Music has been and always will be the soundtrack of our lives.
The Internet has cut into the music industry's profits. It reduced the demand for CDs, increased the interest in singles and let people decide whether they want to pay for the new Prince album. This alone could be offset if all of the people pirating music would go to their favorite artists' shows. However, the hard economy has rapidly cut into people's ability to spend on luxury items and concerts rank right up there with sports in terms of practicality.
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The most significant down side to technology is the loss in revenue from album sales. Illegal downloading of music has become prevalent in today’s society, and many artists—major or independent—receive little to no profit from album sales. Many companies, such as Apple, have tried combating the issue with protected file formats, but a loophole has always been found to bypass the protection. Unsigned and independently signed artists hurt the most, as they pay almost everything out-of-pocket to produce their music. The only feasible response to the loss in revenue, artists have found, is to increase tour dates. In today’s age, it is not rare to find artists who tour more than eight months out of each year. Touring has become one of, if not the only, reliable source of income for many
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...y captivating shows. With the way we currently support our music industry, heavy with electronics and special effects, the art of performing live may become lost in the near future.
This essay will discuss music events by demonstrating specific examples of the supply, demand and challenges of the music events industry. The supply of music events enlarges day by day. There are many types of these events and also a large number of kinds of music genres. Festivals have been a cultural phenomenom for hundreds of years. The reasons why the first festivals started were religious celebrations. Later on the festivals took part for reaffirming and rivaving a local culture or tradition of the town. The history of very first music festivals go back to years before the century. According to historian, they took place in Ancient Egypt around 4500 B.C. But the first well known music festival was in Dublin, Ireland in 1897 and it is known as the Irish Music Festival. The festivals and cultural events play an important role in the urban regeneration process. The music festivals have become very popular, mostly in young age generation. Festivals or rock concerts usually have a larger audience comparing to other high arts such as ballet, opera or classical concerts. The main reason of this is people are often attracted to see such a performance only because their are motivated by the social status of the attending. Another thing is the performance spaces for doing a festival are much less demanding in terms of renting a building such as concert halls or opera houses since the festivals take place external so that makes it an enviromental performance and not hermetically sealed. Besides it is much easier to get tickets for festivals than for a concert mainly due to the fact that the capacity is not limited. Additionaly people tend to purchase the tickets rather when they are on holidays than back home althought the prices are ...
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In the past, music has been a costly business, where only people with a lot of money could enter and be successful in the industry. Changes in the music industry coupled with new computer technology have made it much easier for people without a lot of money to compose, produce, and distribute their creation. In order to get a better understanding of the music industry in comparison to 2014, one has to look at its history. There were many things that happened from the 1980’s onward, and they brought on a significant impact towards the music industry. Development in computer technology has also made a big impression on music. Many things within these fields have enabled artists to connect with their fans in a way they couldn’t before, and on a lower budget. In this paper, the discussion will be about all of these topics, and about the factors that help transform the music industry into something altogether easier for new people to contribute.
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