Billboard: Music Biz 2024: President Portia Sabin Talks Growth, Luminate’s Indie Retail Sales Expansion & More

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Ed Christman covered the speech and updates from Music Business Association’s President Portia Sabin on day two of the conference.

The Music Business Association conference kicked off successfully in Nashville this week, with the annual gathering bringing together more than 2,100 music industry professionals representing attendance from over 750 companies and more than 30 countries, the trade group’s president, Portia Sabin, announced on Tuesday (May 14) in her annual address on the state of the Music Biz organization.
What’s more, Sabin said proposals for programming at the conference, which is crowd-sourced from industry executives, saw a 30% increase this year, “reflective of everything our industry wants to discuss — from hot topics like AI, gaming, and social impact, to perennial favorites like synch, music and money, and marketing. And don’t worry, we still have the critical but non-sexy topics like metadata and neighboring rights.” 

– Ed Christman, Billboard