The Meeting/Networking Lounge is a centralized hub for all Music Biz attendees to congregate. The seating areas are designed for small group meetings or one-on-one conversations. Stop by between meetings or educational sessions to rest, catch up on email, or strike up conversations with someone you have never met. You just may find your next business partner, right here.
The Lounge is sponsored by Nielsen Music, who will be on hand during Lounge hours to demo their recently launched mobile version of Nielsen Music Connect. With a new iPhone and iPad version, Nielsen Music Connect is your complete music measurement solution. Get artists stats on sales, streaming, airplay, social media, Billboard charts, industry trends and more. Whether you’re in a meeting or at a show stay connected with what’s happening in music, anytime or anywhere. Come check it out at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nielsen-music-connect/id947027016.
TOUR IS FULL. PRIOR SIGN-UP WAS REQUIRED.
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Shuttle boarding begins at 11:15 AM and shuttle leaves promptly at 11:30 AM.
Tour is limited to 25 attendees per tour, so prior sign-up is required.
By weaving together enormous sets of data, we're now able to explore and enjoy music in ways that were never possible before. We're packaging up our data research and sharing it not just as data stories, but also as simple apps that can help fans and the industry listen to and learn about music and how people listen to it. In “The Elvis Influence,” we looked into how The King lives on, by tracing his influence on just about any other artist you enter into the app. That's just the beginning of what we're up to. In this talk, Spotify data storyteller and editor of insights.spotify.com will lay out the theory and science behind data storytelling in a straightforward way, with concrete examples and listening samples. Don't be fooled by the word "data" -- in this case, it's another word for "how people listen to music and what that can tell us."
Click here to read more about the Metadata Summit program.
Click here to read more about the Metadata Summit program.
Performances
Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear
Muddy Magnolias
At the start of the Business Session, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean will welcome Music Biz to Music City. With the highest concentration of music jobs in the country, Dean will discuss how he and the Music City Music Council work to attract and retain music industry professionals in Nashville. Wind-up Records will present Civil Twilight. Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, this four-piece Rock band now resides in Nashville and is set to release their third studio album, Story of an Immigrant, in June. Music Biz President James Donio will take the stage to offer an update on Association initiatives. Board Chairman Fred Beteille, of YouTube, will announce the Scholarship Foundation Class of 2015 and welcome the 2015-2016 Board of Directors. Rounding out the morning, Donio will present the 2015 Independent Spirit Award to John Kunz, Owner and President of Austin’s iconic independent record store Waterloo Records & Video Inc. and an over 40-year music industry veteran.
The Meeting/Networking Lounge is a centralized hub for all Music Biz attendees to congregate. The seating areas are designed for small group meetings or one-on-one conversations. Stop by between meetings or educational sessions to rest, catch up on email, or strike up conversations with someone you have never met. You just may find your next business partner, right here.
The Lounge is sponsored by Nielsen Music, who will be on hand during Lounge hours to demo their recently launched mobile version of Nielsen Music Connect. With a new iPhone and iPad version, Nielsen Music Connect is your complete music measurement solution. Get artists stats on sales, streaming, airplay, social media, Billboard charts, industry trends and more. Whether you’re in a meeting or at a show stay connected with what’s happening in music, anytime or anywhere. Come check it out at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nielsen-music-connect/id947027016.
Metadata is all that information that identifies and describes your music. In some cases, metadata is text; composer and musician names, recording dates, genre. In other cases, it’s numeric data; UPC barcodes and ISRC codes. As the music landscape becomes increasingly digital and global – and where success is measured in streams and plays in addition to sales – proper metadata management is becoming an important part of every release workflow. Here we will describe what data is necessary, how to acquire certain codes, where and when to embed data, and what musicians need to keep track of. The goal is to provide you with a better understanding of how your music and data work together to power discovery, attribution and monetization.
Click here to read more about Metadata for Artists.
Shuttle boarding begins at 11:15 AM and shuttle leaves promptly at 11:30 AM.
Tour is limited to 25 attendees per tour, so prior sign-up is required.Digital music streaming adoption continues its global assent. On-demand access to music grew by 54 percent to 164 billion paid-for streams in the US alone and may have helped the record business break even in 2014. As the streaming industry heats up and becomes ever more competitive, differentiated product offerings that reproduce the full range of sound from recordings, exactly as the artist intended, are a new and compelling option for an increasing number of music fans and electronics consumers. The last 12 months has seen new High Resolution Audio (HRA) music service launches and the creation of a formal definition for HRA by the industry to help consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers in their efforts to market the latest compatible devices and help provide more clarity for consumers. From a commercial perspective, HRA offers the prospect of attractive new revenue streams and allows providers to tap into audiences who would normally shun digital music services due to audio quality. With various service providers now claiming to offer high quality tracks at premium prices, how does one know the difference in quality and is it good enough to convince the consumer to pay extra? This panel draws on the knowledge of industry experts including audio engineers, label execs, music technologists, consumer electronics experts and the producers responsible for creating some of the world’s best loved music. It seeks to answer the key questions, break down the jargon and de-myth High Resolution Audio. Questions this panel aims to answer include:
What are the licensing implications for service providers?
Quality versus convenience – have we reached the point where we can have both?
Are service providers equipped to offer HRA in response to increasing consumer demand?
How important is hardware in the HRA ecosystem?
Realistically how easy is it for users to access HRA tracks over carrier networks?
What should the consumer look for when searching for services offering true High Resolution Audio tracks?
What are CE manufacturers, music companies and service providers doing to promote hi-res audio to consumers?
Some people are worried about streaming revenues, but there's reason to see hope in today's access-based models. On a per-hour basis, subscription services pay rights holders better than radio, Internet radio and satellite radio. The big opportunity is listeners' switch from radio to digital services that pay better. As consumers spend more time with digital services and less time with radio, rights owners will benefit from a huge economic shift. And if digital services can make their way into the American mainstream, the dollars flowing due to the radio-to-digital transition will be even greater.
Last year’s personalization debate was about the balance of man and machine. With the rise of the Internet of Things, the next wave of personalization will understand the context of the listening experience in order to serve up the best song for the circumstance regardless of music source. Contextual information about where you are, what you’re doing, and who you’re with will drive future recommendation engines to play you the right song at the right time to match the right mood. This panel will explore how the Internet of Things will drive next-gen personalization efforts and why context is the next frontier for the perfect playlist.
Performances
The Meeting/Networking Lounge is a centralized hub for all Music Biz attendees to congregate. The seating areas are designed for small group meetings or one-on-one conversations. Stop by between meetings or educational sessions to rest, catch up on email, or strike up conversations with someone you have never met. You just may find your next business partner, right here.
The Lounge is sponsored by Nielsen Music, who will be on hand during Lounge hours to demo their recently launched mobile version of Nielsen Music Connect. With a new iPhone and iPad version, Nielsen Music Connect is your complete music measurement solution. Get artists stats on sales, streaming, airplay, social media, Billboard charts, industry trends and more. Whether you’re in a meeting or at a show stay connected with what’s happening in music, anytime or anywhere. Come check it out at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nielsen-music-connect/id947027016.
In the early days of MTV and for several years following, music videos were primarily utilized as a promotional tool to enhance revenue streams for the recording artist. Today, they are an ever-growing monolith for all parties involved and increasingly so for publishers and songwriters. In today's landscape, every penny matters. So, how does one make sure every cent is being captured in every way possible? How are revenue models changing for existing platforms? What new platforms are worth investing time and energy? Join our panelists to learn about these issues and much more.
Click here to read more about the Songwriters & Publishers Town Hall program.As the streaming model continues to develop and grow, it is imperative that songwriters and publishers understand the operations and mechanics of the platforms they leverage to get music to fans. Join newly appointed Global Head of Publisher Relations James Duffett-Smith for a look at how Spotify licenses the rights to stream your compositions on the Spotify platform. He’ll also discuss the global implications for publishers and how to be sure you are making your money.
Click here to read more about the Songwriters & Publishers Town Hall program.
TOUR IS FULL. PRIOR SIGN-UP WAS REQUIRED.
*Adding this event to your Sched profile does not gurantee a spot on the tour.
Shuttle boarding begins at NOON and shuttle leaves promptly at 12:15 PM.
Join us for a 45-minute tour of United Record Pressing, Nashville’s one-stop record-making shop since 1949. From working with Vee Jay Records to release the first 7” Beatles vinyl in the America to pressing Jay-Z’s The Black Album, United Record Pressing is a working museum that pays homage to the breadth of artists and genres that have helped shape its history. The tour will include the infamous Motown Suite. With few accommodations for African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s, the Motown Suite became the go-to for Motown execs. This apartment, located above the factory, still features novel ’60s décor. Also included in the tour is the Party Room. Once used as event space, this room hosted record label signing parties for folks like Wayne Newton, The Cowsills, and a then-16-year-old Hank Williams Jr.Open seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
sponsored by Sony Music Entertainment
Our favorite time of the year … recognizing career excellence and creativity in our industry with the prestigious Music Biz Awards! This year we will honor Big Machine Label Group President and CEO Scott Borchetta with the Presidential Award for Sustained Executive Achievement. Throughout his years in the music business, Scott has demonstrated a keen ear for talent that has led to more than 40 million albums sold by Big Machine artists, not to mention #1 Country and Pop radio smashes (165 in all) in every year over the course of his career. His drive for innovation has also led to Big Machine’s ground-breaking deal with terrestrial radio for performance royalty rights.
Also taking the stage will be Martina McBride to accept the 2015 Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award for her work on behalf of domestic violence, which includes being the spokesperson for the National Domestic Violence Hotline, National Network to End Domestic Violence, and Tulsa Domestic Violence as well as uniting with Loveisrespect and the National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline to create the “My Time to Shine” program to educate teens on how to have healthy relationships.
The Doobie Brothers will accept the 2015 Chairman’s Award for Sustained Creative Achievement from Board Chairman Fred Beteille of YouTube. The group has sold more than 48 million albums, including three multi-Platinum albums, seven Platinum albums, and 14 Gold albums. In addition, their greatest hits record, Best of the Doobies, has sold over 11 million copies, earning a rare RIAA Diamond certification. The band also landed 16 songs on the Billboard Top 40 – including five Top 10 singles and chart-toppers “What a Fool Believes” and “Black Water” – and won four Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year for “What a Fool Believes” and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for the album Minute by Minute.
Epic Records’ newly-minted Pop star Meghan Trainor will be honored with the 2015 Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award. Prior to achieving massive success with her album, Title, and its smash singles “All About That Bass” and “Lips Are Movin,” Trainor was a high school prodigy who came to Nashville after scoring a publishing deal at the age of 17. While there, she co-wrote tracks for major acts such as Rascal Flatts and Hunter Hayes before breaking through on her own after deciding to record “All About That Bass” herself.
The Meeting/Networking Lounge is a centralized hub for all Music Biz attendees to congregate. The seating areas are designed for small group meetings or one-on-one conversations. Stop by between meetings or educational sessions to rest, catch up on email, or strike up conversations with someone you have never met. You just may find your next business partner, right here.
The Lounge is sponsored by Nielsen Music, who will be on hand during Lounge hours to demo their recently launched mobile version of Nielsen Music Connect. With a new iPhone and iPad version, Nielsen Music Connect is your complete music measurement solution. Get artists stats on sales, streaming, airplay, social media, Billboard charts, industry trends and more. Whether you’re in a meeting or at a show stay connected with what’s happening in music, anytime or anywhere. Come check it out at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nielsen-music-connect/id947027016.