A final recounting of this year's conference, from the annual Bizzy Awards dinner to panels on Record Store Day, startup investment, catalog acquisitions and more.
In remarks to the conference's more than 2,000 attendees, Sabin noted that 15% of them came from outside the U.S.
It's not just older generations fueling physical music sales anymore — and Record Store Day highlights this evolving trend.
"It's shaping up amazingly," Sabin says of the move from Nashville to Atlanta. "Our sponsorships are off the charts."
New events are lined up for the annual music industry conference, set for May in Georgia.
The annual conference will relocate from Nashville to Atlanta.
The Music Biz conference in Nashville devoted three panels to the issue, which attorney Mona Simonian said is "financially impacting everyone in the industry."
In a presentation at the Music Biz conference, the firm's Tatiana Cirisano said services like Spotify will lose "cultural capital" against competitors like TikTok.
On the eve of the annual Music Biz conference in Nashville, organization president Portia Sabin describes its efforts to serve a wider scope of the industry than ever.
President Portia Sabin says she's received calls from projected attendees for the annual Music Biz conference in Nashville who are "afraid" of the state's latest laws.