Streaming Giants
This video platform is a major competitor in the music streaming market, offering both music and video content.
What is YouTube?
The big 3 music labels.
What is Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, and Warner Music Group?
This clause, often written into artist contracts, requires the promoter to provide specific hospitality amenities like catering and accommodations.
What is a rider?
The 1969 music festival that became synonymous with the counterculture movement, featuring performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who.
What is Woodstock?
This 2020 single by The Weeknd spent 90 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, breaking the record for the longest-charting song in the chart's history.
What is "Blinding Lights"?
In 2023, this streaming platform launched "Artist Reactions," allowing creators to upload video responses to fan questions alongside their music.
What is SoundCloud?
This legendary hip-hop label, co-founded by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin in 1984, was pivotal in the careers of artists like LL Cool J and Beastie Boys.
What is Def Jam Recordings?
This company is the largest promoter of live concerts and tours globally.
What is Live Nation?
This 1980s genre, originating in Detroit and Chicago, heavily influenced the development of electronic dance music, with its use of synthesizers and drum machines.
What is house music (or techno)?
This song from the Frozen II soundtrack became the first Disney song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1993.
What is "Let It Go"?
This streaming platform, created by a group of artists including Kanye West and Jack White, markets itself as "artist-owned" and places an emphasis on exclusive content.
What is Tidal?
This major music company, one of the “Big Three,” acquired EMI’s music division in 2012, making it the largest music label in the world by market share.
What is Universal Music Group (UMG)?
Some artists are now opting for this innovative concert model, where instead of traditional tours, they perform multiple shows in one city.
What is a residency tour model?
This Beyoncé album changed the music industry by being released without any prior promotion, debuting as a surprise drop.
What is Beyoncé (self-titled album)?
In 2021, this pop star broke the record for the most simultaneous entries on the Billboard Hot 100 by a female artist, with all 18 tracks from her album charting.
Who is Olivia Rodrigo?
What does Spotify pay per stream?
What is $0.003 to $0.005 per stream?
This subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment is credited with launching the careers of Adele and Beyoncé.
What is Columbia Records?
Highest-grossing tour of all time? Artist and amount of money?
What is Taylor Swift ($1.04 billion)?
This movement, which began on the internet in the mid-2000s, combines pop culture references, irony, and lo-fi production, and is exemplified by artists like PC Music and 100 gecs.
What is hyperpop?
This Drake single, released in 2016, spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a defining track of his career.
What is "One Dance"?
Despite fierce competition, this platform launched in China in 2013 and now holds the largest share of the Chinese music streaming market.
What is Tencent Music?
This pioneering label founded by Berry Gordy was known for developing stars like Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is Motown Records?
In response to the growing demand for flexible pricing, many artists have adopted this pricing model, where ticket prices adjust based on demand.
What is dynamic pricing?
Michael Jackson's first solo album?
What is "Got to Be There"?
This band holds the record for the most #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, with 20 chart-topping singles between 1964 and 1970.
Who are The Beatles?