Music Biz hosts an annual slate of face-to-face & virtual events to foster important connections between our members and major industry players, introduce new career development tools, and provide vital knowledge to inform business decisions. Association members receive discounted registration rates for all Music Biz events, as well as priority consideration for speaker placement during our events.
Check out our currently scheduled events below:
While our annual Music Biz Conference is a tentpole event for the entire global music business, it’s important for us to directly branch out into international music communities both to learn from and connect with one another. Our Music Biz Passport event series allows U.S. executives to connect with international trendsetters to learn what does and does not work in their local music economies and expose important cross-border collaborations that will make the global music business stronger!
Our Common Ground Webinar Series offers you exclusive looks at new technologies & services advancing our industry, access to new data from our trusted research partners, and a seat at special roundtable discussions on timely issues — all for FREE!
September 28, 2024
Now more than ever, students have a voice that can change the trajectory of the music business! Our #NEXTGEN_U summit presents a special opportunity to blend academia with action by uniting students, faculty, and the greater music community at the start of the Fall semester!
May 12, 2024 - May 15, 2025
Renaissance Atlanta Waverly
After 2024’s gathering of 2,200+ attendees from more than 800 companies across 30 countries, it’s clear to us that Music Biz’s community is growing beyond the roots we’ve established in Nashville over the past 10 years. We’re excited to bring the Annual Music Biz Conference to Atlanta at the Renaissance Waverly hotel from May 12 – 15, 2025!
At Music Biz, we create rooms where important conversations about the future of the music business are held — however, not everyone can make the trek to our Annual Music Biz Conference each May. Since EVERY city is a music city, we’ll be bringing those rooms to YOU through the new Music Biz Roadshow event series!
January 9, 2025
Eisner and Lubin Auditorium at NYU’s Kimmel Center
In collaboration with Believe & TuneCore, Music Biz hosted the second annual Trust & Safety in Music Symposium in the Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU’s Kimmel Center this past January. The event’s second iteration explored the implications of the Michael Smith case, and assessed how effective our industry has been at addressing fraud!
November 12, 2024
Zoom
Our Let’s Talk Physical virtual event series provides vital updates on everything the physical business needs to stay ahead of the curve as physical music consumption continues to rise!
May 13, 2024 - May 16, 2024
JW Marriott Nashville
After last year’s gathering of 2,100+ attendees from more than 800 companies across 30 countries, it’s clear that Music Biz is THE PLACE to be if you have a stake in the future of the music business! Whether you’re coming to hear expert viewpoints on the latest trends & tech, to seek out new business partnerships, or to celebrate those who are innovating the ways our industry operates, we’re confident that attending Music Biz 2024 will set your company and its employees on the path to success!
May 15 - May 18, 2023
JW Marriott Nashville
For more than six decades, the Music Biz Conference has been the point of origin for inspiration and collaboration in the music business, as attendees share the insights learned at our event with their peers and extend a ripple effect of change across the global industry. Music Biz 2023 was no exception, and we can’t wait to see you again in 2024!
JW Marriott Nashville
Music Biz 2022 featured four days of the industry-defining conversations and connections you’ve come to expect from our Association, including continued discussions of how we can support those among us who are still struggling and address our individual needs for professional & personal growth.
Socio
The virtual edition of the Metadata Summit gathers thought leaders from the music data, legal, tech & startup communities and beyond to discuss advancements in metadata technologies across the global music business, how to blend industry know-how with technology to best improve data collection & reporting, and ways we can collaborate to keep music royalties flowing to artists & rightsholders.
Zoom
As part of their efforts to bring educational content to the industry at large as it practices social distancing, the Music Business Association (Music Biz) and Record Store Day co-hosted the Couch Camp virtual educational conference via Zoom from June 3-5, 2020!
Zoom
Young industry voices today are proving that age does not always equal authority and that the next generation is not necessarily next – it’s now! The #NEXTGEN_NOW Virtual Summit brings together young music business professionals to discuss personal & professional development, perseverance, entrepreneurship, and how their new innovative ideas are influencing, impacting & transforming our industry.
