The electronic dance music industry hit a record $12.9 billion in global revenue in 2024, growing 6% year-over-year, according to the IMS Business Report 2025. EDM acts commanded 39% of the Coachella 2025 lineup, far outpacing the 21% share for indie, rock, and alternative acts combined. Festivals and clubs alone ...

The question of which music streaming service pays artists the most has a complicated answer in 2026 because the underlying payout models have changed substantially since the early streaming era. Per-stream rates are still useful as comparison numbers, but they no longer tell the full story. The two biggest shifts ...

Music curation, done well, is a craft. The difference between a playlist that holds attention for an hour and one that gets skipped after three songs isn't intuition it's a specific set of decisions about purpose, programming, sequencing, and audience reading that experienced curators make deliberately. The good news is ...

Music curation in a branding context is a specific discipline, not a vibe. It involves three distinct categories of decisions that often get blurred together: the sonic identity that a brand owns (sonic logo, signature melody, brand-derived motifs), the music curated for physical environments where the brand interacts with customers ...

In 2026, the question is no longer whether AI will change music curator jobs. It already has. The streaming platforms that used to employ human playlist editors have laid off significant parts of those teams. The AI tools that replaced them are now serving billions of hours of personalized music ...

Hiring a corporate event DJ is harder than it should be. The category includes wedding DJs branching into corporate work, club DJs taking corporate gigs for the rate, and a small group of specialists who actually understand how an annual sales kickoff, an investor summit, or a 1,500-person user conference ...