The Rise Of EDM Music
Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is surging to the forefront of mainstream tastes.
If you have turned on the radio, watched TV, or attended a music festival in the last several years you have likely noticed DJs and producers flooding the market.
Acts like Skrillex, Deadmau5, and David Guetta have emerged from the EDM movement and achieved international popularity on an unprecedented level.
EDM has only recently stepped into the spotlight.
The genre, however, is hardly young. It began as an underground movement in the 1980s.
Similarly to how hip-hop crossed over into the mainstream in the late 1990s and 2000s, EDM is now coming of age, and in a big way.
A generation of music fans are shifting their musical gaze from the hip-hop driven popular music that dominated the 2000s, to the polished sounds of house, trance, dubstep, glitch, breaks, and the dozens of other sub-genres that fall under the umbrella of EDM.
A quick look at Forbes’s first annual “Electronic Cash Kings” list of top earning DJs confirms the arrival of EDM as a mainstream genre.
Topping the list is Dutch producer/DJ Tiesto, earning a staggering $22 million over the last year and averaging $250,000 gross per show.
The list continues through a handful of now-household names including Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia, and Deadmau5.
Even Avicii, who closes the list at number ten, earned an impressive $7 million.
As a whole, the EDM industry is worth approximately $4 billion per year. According to the International Music Summer (IMS) Consumer Report 2015, EDM is the fastest growing mainstream genre in the United States.
Festivals and Live Shows
For the electro-elite, live shows are the most lucrative source of income.
Unencumbered by most “traditional” band equipment, the cost of touring for DJs is extremely low.
Meanwhile, the demand is skyrocketing. Promoters are capitalizing on the live experience with wildly successful
The rise of EDM has influenced pop music itself and an increasing number of stars are turning towards electro beats to fuel their hits.
According to Forbes magazine, “dance music’s convergence with pop music has made it more accepted as well as opened up the genre to a host of new listeners.
Pop fans are, in effect, easing into EDM through a genre they are already familiar and comfortable with.
A symbiotic relationship has developed such that EDM artists gain access to a wider fan base while pop artists feed off the fresh hype surrounding EDM.
Music is the soul of mind
We live in an age where this world is busy running after each and every minor thing. The stress levels keep high. In such an era, music plays an extremely important role.
Gone are the days when people had to buy cassettes or CDs for their favourite songs. Every touch has become modernised, and so has the music industry. A number of online platforms have now become available for the artists to promote their own music; be it a new comer or an established musician of the industry. Various sites host music, and you can just have a great time pass when you’re in a mood to listen to some really good music. And what better if an artist wants to grow more! It’s rather helpful.
Here is a list of some best music sites for artists out there:
1. Youtube : You may create your own cool YouTube channel and upload some great content of yours, while your fans get a chance to view, like, comment, share or even subscribe to your music, totally free of cost. Sign up at www.youtube.com
2. Spotify : For the ones willing to listen to a lot of songs, this site gets you millions of songs. The content if protected and legal. You can also make and share playlists here. Sign up at www.spotify.com
3. Songcast Music: Songcast is a awesome place to sell your music online totally free to sign up just a small yearly fee which won’t put you out of pocket and you can keep 100% of your royalties fans can enjoy your music just about on every online store plus they offer promotion services to be played on itunes Radio, Songcast Radio, plus more. Sign up at www.songcastmusic.com
4. SoundCloud : Professional artists or budding musicians, everyone can upload their music here, and the listeners can either stream or download the music from this site. Sign up at www.soundcloud.com
6. Distrokid : Distrokid is another awesome place for artists to sell their music online its a very small fee once a year and you can keep all your earnings too, your music gets sold on itunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play plus many more, they offer youtube video’s to go along with your music aswell as the Shazam app so you can Shazam all your songs from anywhere in the world, which is a pretty handy function to have if you want to know the name of a song your hearing. If your looking to start your own record label they have awesome deals on multi artist packages. Sign up at www.distrokid.com
10. Reverbnation : Professional artists or budding musicians, everyone can upload their music here, and the listeners can either stream or download the music from this site. this site also offers promotion service’s and auto email responder also a premium service. Sign up at www.reverbnation.com
These sites prove helpful in a number of ways like:
- The artist is able to get access to his own work via these sites, without having to pay.
- Not only would the artists be able to see their music online, but also the millions of fans would be able to reach their favourite stars.
- If a new comer wants to show his skills, he may just upload his music online, and get thousands of views along with getting as many likes, comments or shares.
There are options to buy music online as well. This can be favourable for the artist as he has another way of making a profit, except the royalties.
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