Category: Music Business Association News

  • Music Row: Music Biz Kicks Off 2024 Conference

    Music Row: Music Biz Kicks Off 2024 Conference

    Music Row has covered the first day of the music Biz Conference! The Music Business Association kicked off its annual Music Biz conference yesterday (May 13) at the JW Marriott Nashville.Conference attendees were immersed into a full day of programing with the Music Biz Roadshow, a collection of panels with…

  • Nashville Music Guide: Music Biz 2024 Day One Recap

    Nashville Music Guide: Music Biz 2024 Day One Recap

    Nashville Music Guide provided their readers with a recap of day one from the 2024 Music Biz Conference. The Music Biz 2024 conference is officially up and running, completing its first full day of programming on May 13th. Day One featured the Music Biz Roadshow event, presented by CD Baby…

  • Billboard: Portia Sabin on This Year’s Music Biz Conference: ‘AI Is the Big One’ 

    Billboard: Portia Sabin on This Year’s Music Biz Conference: ‘AI Is the Big One’ 

    Billboard’s Ed Christman sat down with the Music Business Association’s President, Portia Sabin, to talk about what attendees can expect from this year’s Music Biz Conference. Music Business Association president Portia Sabin’s career has reached most of the corners of the music industry, including drumming under the stage name of…

  • Pride Publishing Group: Music Biz conference runs May 13 — 16, 2024 at JW Marriott

    Pride Publishing Group: Music Biz conference runs May 13 — 16, 2024 at JW Marriott

    Pride Publishing Group posted a preview of the 2024 Music Biz Conference. Music Biz 2024 takes place May 13 — 16, 2024 at the JW Marriott Nashville. The organization’s flagship event will deliver four days of industry-defining conversations and connections, plus important discussions on how the industry may evolve to…

  • Hypebot: Music Biz Roadshow targets artists and their teams

    Hypebot: Music Biz Roadshow targets artists and their teams

    Hypebot covered the announcement that the Music Biz Conference will be launched by the Roadshow with a full day of programming for artists and their teams. Music Biz Roadshow will launch this year’s Music Biz 2024 industry conference in Nashville on May 13 with a full-day program for artists and their teams.This second Roadshow will explore…

  • Hypebot: Luminate adds Street Pulse data to improve Billboard Indie Album chart

    Hypebot: Luminate adds Street Pulse data to improve Billboard Indie Album chart

    Hypebot covered the new announcement from Music Business Association and Luminate on new data collection and reporting for indie album sales. A coalition of independent recorded music business retail and trade groups have partnered with data providers Luminate and Street Pulse to improve the physical sales data that drives Billboard’s…

  • Music Ally: Luminate reveals new plan to collect independent physical sales data

    Music Ally: Luminate reveals new plan to collect independent physical sales data

    Music Ally covered the news that Luminate will be changing how it collects and reports data from sales at independent record stores. Earlier this year, research firm Luminate was being criticised over changes it had made to the way it collected data on physical music sales in the US.The critics were concerned…

  • Music Business Worldwide: Luminate reaches music sales data collection deal with indie record stores

    Music Business Worldwide: Luminate reaches music sales data collection deal with indie record stores

    Music Business Worldwide covered the announcement that Luminate will expand data collection and reporting of sales from independent record stores through new partnerships. Music data company Luminate, which collects the data used in Billboard charts, has formed a new partnership with indie record store groups in an effort to diffuse a controversy over…

  • Billboard: Luminate Expands How It Counts Indie Retail Sales for Billboard Charts Via New Partnership

    Billboard: Luminate Expands How It Counts Indie Retail Sales for Billboard Charts Via New Partnership

    Billboard covered the new announcement that Luminate will now collect indie physical sales date from StreetPulse. Luminate, which provides data to the Billboard charts, has signed a new partnership that will enable it to report more direct U.S. independent music retail data than ever before, the company announced Wednesday (April 24).Under the partnership —…

  • Digital Music News: Luminate/Billboard Revamps Physical Sales Tracking After Howls of Protest from Record Stores

    Digital Music News: Luminate/Billboard Revamps Physical Sales Tracking After Howls of Protest from Record Stores

    Digital Music News covered the announcement that Luminate has reached a new partnership with the Music Business Association to enable physical music sales reporting across the independent sector. The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS), Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS), and Department of Record Stores (DORS), who work together…